Today’s construction projects move faster than ever with more information being added to the project from stakeholders at every phase. In fact, the volume of available construction project data has doubled in just the past three years. Specialty contractors bear the brunt of this data onslaught by spending precious time searching through new project updates to keep their team on schedule and their client happy.
Autodesk is here to help contractors manage this increased data more effectively. In September, we released 45 product updates designed to cut through the noise of construction data and help subcontractors find the information they need to do what they do best, build.
In the true spirit of cutting through the noise, below we’ve highlighted the top six recent updates for specialty contractors.
Subcontractors need to regularly win new work to build a backlog and maintain financial stability. And now, they can do just that. Plan Room is a new tool that allows Bid Board Pro users to more easily discover projects that general contractors and owners have publicly shared on BuildingConnected. Whether it’s sourcing new clients or entering new markets, Plan Room can help specialty contractors find the jobs they need.
Project templates can help any team get started quicker and increase their opportunities for success. But to get the full benefit, they need to be tailored to your specific needs and workflows as a subcontractor.
Now with Sample Project Templates, you can get your next project started more quickly with a new project template designed for specialty contractors. Use the templated forms and issues to help standardize data collection processes to ensure the information coming in is telling the true story of the project.
Detecting changes in the design and coordination phases is never easy, but we’re making it easier for your teams. We’ve added colors on models to create an easy way to understand the progress and differences found in a model. Adding colors to show disciplines, stages, or object types helps your BIM managers make the right decisions easier, to help them complete the project faster.
Managing all your asset data on a project is an important yet taxing process for even the most seasoned veterans. But now, you can track assets as a system by creating groups based on similarities or dependencies for easier asset management. Rather than seeing the vent, the duct, and the VAV box as separate assets, you can combine them to form one asset system to simplify progress tracking and commissioning.
Tracking updates, and who made them, across a single project can be frustrating. Tracking them across all projects your company is working on can be a nightmare. Now with Activity Log, you can easily pull an audit trail of activities performed across the Autodesk Construction Cloud, with time stamps and user info across all your projects – all at once.
While it’s great to help understand activities in case of dispute, it also helps drive standardization of data collection across the company by showing you who needs more training on your company’s way of working. You can tell your legal team to rest easier at night.
The tech stack of each specialty contractor is as unique as the personalities of its crew. Autodesk ensures you can customize your way of working by regularly adding new integrations to the Autodesk Construction Cloud ecosystem (already over 400!). Nineteen new integrations were recently added to help subs get the job done.
Finding all the project information you need can be exhausting – but it doesn’t have to be. With tools to organize data and provide visual cues for straightforward interpretation, you can act faster and keep your projects on track.
These latest releases are just a few of the ways Autodesk is empowering specialty contractors to cut through the noise so you can spend less time sifting through data and more time acting on it.
Want to learn more? Check out all our latest product releases.
