Discover how Newforma Konekt’s seamless mobile integration, instant logging, and offline capabilities, empower teams to expedite decision-making and minimise errors, ensuring efficient project management anytime, anywhere
The construction industry has experienced a remarkable evolution in the past two decades, with a heightened emphasis on efficient communication and information flow. This evolution, however, has brought with it new challenges, particularly collaborating between the office and the field, where the seamless exchange of information between the two is paramount.
In this guide, we explore how Newforma Konekt empowers firms to bridge the gap between the office and field by expediting information sharing through the power of mobile.
The challenge
Cross-team collaboration in construction has quickly evolved over the last two decades; relying on quick communication and a seamless flow of information to keep projects on time and on budget.
Imagine a maze of miscommunication leading to delays, mistakes, and budget overruns. The old-school way of handling field data, with its time-consuming and error-prone manual processes, made it feel like trying to juggle while walking a tightrope.
Up until recently, you’d be subject to emails flying left and right, phone call after phone call and an endless line of follow-up meetings from the start and end of a successful project
The explosion in communication and the growing need for immediate action have created a bit of a breaking point in the AECO industry, as Architects, General Contractors, Engineers and even project owners look to get a handle on the health of their projects.
That kind of stress and pressure can be suffocating if you don’t have the right tools.
This was made evermore clear after a recent study from Viewpoint found that 54% of contractors viewed the accurate logging and tracking of data in the field as a priority, while 59% admitted to still using manual process to collect and log data. to ensure it stays on time and on budget.
Even for engineers, who often conduct on-site research and studies or diagnose construction or machinery problems, the need for digital information sharing and seamless mobility is just as relevant. Poor communication, incomplete reports and missing communications have been shown to result in costly reworks that could increase the cost of an average project by 5%.
It explains, in large part, why the AECO industry is rapidly modernizing through the adoption of information management platforms such as those brought to market by Newforma.
The solution
Our purpose-built workflow connectors set us apart, ensuring cohesion in AEC processes, not just data connections.
Data silos exist in the office and in the field. In this paper we’ll explore how to break free from data silos. Newforma acts as the unifying force, becoming the system of record for your organization allowing you to mitigate risks by connecting scattered information, ensuring that if it exists, we can find it.
As one of the AECO industry’s premier project information management platforms, Newforma Konekt unifies conversations, project files, action items, and contractual workflows into a single cloud-hosted platform, while at the same time providing a history of the project from conception to completion and even years later should that become necessary.
In turn, the Newforma Konekt Mobile App connects to your Newforma Konekt account and provides instant notification on the status of issues and action items, RFIs, and submittals so you can make informed decisions in record time wherever you may be.
