web-based planroom services (and most reprographers are), how does your service
stack up against the services offered by companies (like SmartBidNet) who offer
online planroom services as a part of
an extensive offering of other construction-project bid management services?
develop the web-based planroom service it offers with a SmartBidNet
subscription; evidently, SmartBidNet uses the web-based planroom service
developed the “Virtual Plan Room Network.”
Evidently, the Virtual Plan Room Network is widely used by Builders
Exchanges in many parts of the U.S.
SmartBidNet:
FOR COMMERCIAL GENERAL CONTRACTORS”
721.
Projects, Invitations to Bid, Files, Email Communications, and Custom Reports.
via the SmartInsight Contractor Network and Public Agency Database Integration.
Identifying which Subcontractors are Viewing and Downloading Plans.
Prequal, Financial and Other Sub Information.
Bid Submissions Side by Side.
Subcontractor Registration and Public Project Lists.
System Data with Your Other Software.
Customizable Dashboard.
Seth Cheever of Stiles Construction:
first started working there?
with rulers and a digitizer to using computer based on-screen takeoffs that are
able to be collaborated on by the entire department. We have also changed our
bid solicitation system from isolated components (i.e. fax machines, a
complicated subcontractor database directory, and untraceable paper plan
deliveries) to SmartBid, which simplifies all of those individual processes and
components into a unified platform. Of course BIM has moved to the front of the
line of construction technology evolution. We’ve gone from blueprints, to plotted drawings, to on-screen 2D
images to 3D models. We’re now getting into 4D simulations and 5D model-based
cost estimating.
to full Stiles Interview:
interview of David Green of Swinerton Builders:
How has your company’s use of
software solutions evolved since you first started working there?
Swinerton has always been ahead
of the curve on adoption of technology. When I first started with Swinerton 16
years ago we were using a Swinerton developed construction management and
accounting software that was accessible to the field via modem, P3 scheduling
software and Lotus 123 customized spreadsheet solutions for estimating. This
evolution has continued with early adoption of web-based invitation to bid
systems and web-based document distribution.
Currently, Swinerton is a
leader in the adoption of BIM 3D, 4D and 5D solutions. Our most recent push is to bring these technologies into the field
with paperless offices, using tablet-based project management/monitoring tools.
We are again an
early adopter of cloud-based BIM software and collaboration as well.
Over the next decade, in what
ways do you hope to see construction technology evolve?
We would like to see integrated
applications that can freely exchange data. We would like the
ability to delete all paper and migrate pricing/bidding online as well.
to full Swinerton Builders Interview:
to SmartBidNet web-site:
announcement above that was published in May 2016:
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