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4 4 Essentials to Consider When Choosing Construction Project Management Software Closing your construction projects on time and on budget is a top priority. The more efficiently you can manage projects, the more profitable those projects will be. But achieving on-time, on- budget projects can be challenging. Unexpected change orders combined with unpredictable material and labor costs can easily upend schedules, sending construction budgets soaring. To make matters worse, project participants might use different systems to track change orders and related costs. Those systems typically aren't well-connected, if they're connected at all. When change orders are tracked manually, be it on paper or in spreadsheets, the problem may only get worse. Without a single, unified view of construction projects, it's nearly impossible to keep costs in check and projects on track. Luckily, these factors are within your control. When you have a way to unify and automate your construction cost data, you can ensure that your projects come in on budget and on time. Collaborative, integrated construction project management software is your path to keeping construction costs under control. Construction projects involve project managers, subcontractors, engineers, quality control personnel, accountants and more. When an issue requiring a change order arises, everyone affected — from the field to the back office — must be notified. The project manager and other stakeholders need to assess the scope of the issue, acquire estimates, add them into the system and secure approvals. Once the change is approved, it must be executed smoothly to avoid disruption and additional costs. If you manage your change orders by gathering data from multiple sources and inputting that data in a spreadsheet as a single source of truth, you're likely not alone. In the meantime, however, your subcontractors may be using a different resource to manage their end of the changes. How can you be sure the information on your side aligns with the information on their side? Without an integrated common interface, you can't. And how can you be sure everyone is informed and updating their systems? You could send an email, but can you be certain that all the parties who need to know the information will receive it? Change is Inevitable, Cost Overruns Aren't " Unless your communications happen on the same platform or system, the risk of miscommunication is high. Disconnects between systems make it difficult to pinpoint and resolve issues. That's wasted time and wasted money."

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