Buildern Features

Creates professional-looking RFPs (requests for proposals) and/or RTTs (request to tender)

Consolidates relevant bid data for accurate and competitive bid calculations

Provides templated or customizable bid forms

Facilitates the sharing and sending of bid proposals

Provides a unified, easy-to-access database to store, upload, and import construction plans.

Supports edits and markups to plans, stores original plans, and generates time stamps for audit purposes.

Stores, shares, and backs up construction plans and documents

Leverages OCR technology to efficiently extract data from construction documents

Supports interlinking between plans and submittals, RFIs, and other related documents, to streamline collaboration and communication workflows.

Stores, centralizes, and manages information about contractors and subcontractors

Tracks and monitors compliance documents and adherance to relevant certificates

Stores, tracks, and manages contact information and communication history between vendors, contractors, and suppliers

Easily integrates with third-party construction project management, accounting, and other construction solutions

Stores information regarding past and current construction projects

Provides insight into progress of construction projects

Streamlines the integration between punch list software and inspection or quality managment software to improve and speed up processes.

Supports the upload of photos and documents to punch lists for accuracy and real-time updates.

Facilitates the creation, customization, and/or generation of punch list templates.

Itemizes mistakes, deficiencies, oversights, etc., on a nearly completed construction project.

Generates reports on the number of punch lists assigned to sub/contractors, the type of work that is noted in punch lists, and other actionable business insights.

Records and tracks changes and edits to punch lists.

Creates and alerts key players of upcoming due dates and reminders about progress on tasks.

Facilitates communication between key players throughout the generation and updating of punch lists.

Provides a digital application of the software that can be used without internet or network connection.

Ensures structure and clarity of a project via simplified file, photo, and documentation sharing and annotation functionality.

Automates the scheduling and assignment of jobs, people/crew, and equipment.

Facilitates the reviewing of incidents to ensure with policy compliance and prepare for site audits.

Enables conversations on mobile devices while out on the field.

Assigns tasks, enables the scheduling of crew and resources, and manages and/or monitors progress on projects and jobsites.

Tracks and logs utilization of equipment, materials, assets, and all relevant resources; can generate daily reports.

Provides contractors and crew a digital timesheet to track hours; some push man-hours from daily project progress reports to timesheets.

Facilitates the taking, annotating, and uploading of photos from the field for real-time updates, to supllement the documentation of the progress of a project.

Generates daily reports of project progress, worker productivity, job costs, and material usage.

Based on 10 Buildern reviews. Supports the integration of the project management solution with a third-party accounting management solution to streamline the construction project lifecycle.

Supports the integration of the project management solution with a third-party estimating and bid management solution to streamline the construction project lifecycle.

Supports the integration of the project management solution with a third-party workforce management solution to streamline the construction project lifecycle.

As reported in 10 Buildern reviews. In addition to assigning tasks, enables the setting of milestones and deadlines to those tasks to track on a set basis.

Records, centralizes, and provides access and sharing settings to project information into a centralized depository. 10 reviewers of Buildern have provided feedback on this feature.

Enables and/or facilitates communication on the jobsite and between the field and office admin.

Manages and dispatches work orders, allocates assets and resources, manages contractors, and schedule jobs

Enables and simplifies communication on the site and between the office and field.

Provides a mobile-ready application of the tool that does not require internet connection.

Captures data from the site and generates reports on project progress.

Tracks timesheets and attendance of site crew memberes

Enables the capturing and/or uploading of photographs or videos to document project progress

Assigns tasks, enables the scheduling of crew and resources, and manages and/or monitors progress on projects and jobsites.

Enables the upload of site photos to existing plans to better track the progress of a construction project

Enables users to access the software on the site, on a mobile device

Collects and analyzes data related to safety issues on site to identitfy and reduce incidents and risks.

Manages construction resources in real-time to keep track of and forecast future needs.

Keeps track of utilization of physical assets, for visibility, accountability, and optimization.

Adds onto the creation and management of bids and tenders via takeoff and cost management functionalities.

Supports the interfacing of the solution to construction project management and construction accounting solutions.

Provides users access to a database of historical job costs of past construction projects.

Provides users the ability to monitor and update project costs, and track all utilized resources

Provides users with templates that break down individual construction cost requirements into tasks.

Enables and/or facilitates communication on the jobsite and between the field and office admin.

Captures and analyzes historical performance to enable the forecasting of materials and inventory needs in addition to identifying any gaps in the construction site supply chain.

Enables the integration of the construction ERP with other construction software solutions to ensure seamless data flow and exchange.

Enables the controlling of costs on construction projects; unifies and centralizes the management of construction accounting, payroll, and service operations.

Improves the efficiency and management of general and subcontractors and field service companies.

Monitors task assignment and the progress of construction projects to ensure the project's timely completion.

Captures all business content electronically to reduce and/or eliminate manual, process-based inefficiencies.

Monitors and tracks the procurement and utilization of construction equipment and resources.

Captures and analyzes current performance to enable the evaluation of project and firm performance.

Assigns tasks, enables the scheduling of crew and resources, and manages and/or monitors progress on projects and jobsites.

Facilitates the storing of construction data into cloud-hosted servers.

Centralizes previously siloed construction data and insights into an easily accessible database.

Tracks progress and customizable key performance indicators (KPIs) through customizable and automated dashboards.

Supports input of big data from a variety of diverse sources (sensors, wearables, assets, etc.).

Generates and/or visualizes historical and real-time construction business intelligence, either from the field or office.

Collects data and provides deep insights into the pre-construction phase of the construction lifecycle.

Collects data and provides deep insights into the post-construction phase of the construction lifecycle.

Generates and delivers reports on construction project progress.

Provides formulas and tools to facilitate the calculation of industry-specific costs and/or associated labor.

Leverages optical character recognition (OCR) technology to enable the search of text within blueprints.

Supports the uploading and input of blueprints using a variety of file types (SVG, DXF, DWG, PDF, JPEG, etc.) and sources of input (CDs, email, portable drives, etc.).

Enables multiple users to perform takeoff on a single project.

Automates calculates and generates Bill of Quantities (BoQs) and/or Bill of Materials (BoMs).

Allows annotations and adjustments to original takeoff estimates after the initial takeoff calculations have been completed.

Integrates with third-party construction estimating software to supplement the overall cost management process.