Electrical contractors are essential to every construction site, but keeping up with complex projects and short timelines has become harder than ever. For preconstruction, common challenges such as lack of communication, collaboration and performance insight can result in a loss during the bidding process. Even when a bid is won, employee safety, labor shortages and more must be also be considered. How are leading electrical contractors staying ahead?
By harnessing the capabilities of Autodesk Construction Cloud during the construction and preconstruction phases, electrical contractors can access data, mitigate risk, manage and track projects, and more.
Sync workflows and data across your projects
As a mobile-first* construction software solution, the Autodesk Constuction Cloud is designed to help standardize workflows and improve collaboration between office and field. If you’re on a construction site, you’ll also need access to all essential project information no matter where you are.
With Autodesk Build, a solution within the Autodesk Constuction Cloud, electrical contractors have access to the PlanGrid Build app. PlanGrid Build can help you complete tasks from anywhere on the jobsite at any time, with seamless access to Autodesk Build data, even when offline. Just sync project data at your convenience and enjoy complete offline access.
Finally, all the construction collaboration tools you need – on mobile!
*Mobile app available for Autodesk Build users.
Win more work with centralized bid management
Streamline the preconstruction process, issue more bids and increase bid accuracy with connected and centralized bid management. By hosting construction bid management on a single platform, electrical contractors can maximize productivity and work confidently knowing their information is up-to-date.
Adopting an online bid board solution to manage bid invites, projects, team workload and deadlines is the ideal method to ensure nothing is missed. Bid Board Pro is an online bid board that allows you to quickly identify new job opportunities and track bids any time during the bidding process.
See where your bids stand
See your bids across the office or your division from one place. Track project files, job walks, due dates and more. Know what needs to be done, who’s responsible and when it’s due.
Save time with automated bid tracking
Stop manually consolidating your bids and forward them from any source to automatically populate your bid board. Aggregate similar jobs from different GCs for easy tracking.
Bid smarter and win the work you want
Make better business decisions! – Check win rates, track your team’s performance and see how your business is doing.
Reduce rework + mitigate risk with a single source of truth
With improved BIM coordination, electrical contractors can get things right the first time. That means less rework! Autodesk Build makes it easy for electrical contractors to mark up drawings in the field and access the latest source of truth– they can perform their jobs more safely, with less risk of hitting an unmarked utility line or encountering discrepancies between the job site and the plans they are working from.
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Connect the jobsite and office with photos and videos
When it comes to billing for your electrical work, you don’t want any questions as to what work was done or when. Autodesk Build allows you to attach photos and videos to forms, issues, RFIs and submittals. For team members who can’t be present onsite, this feature is a game-changer!
Galleries and tagging capabilities are also included with Autodesk Build. Now you can find the information you’re looking for in one place, with detailed filtering and a map view for easy navigation. Need more context with an image? With one click, you can instantly find out if there’s an issue, form, asset or RFI connected to that photo. Add customized tags to your photos for even more context, then create and share photo reports with others even if they are outside of the project.
Connect photos to issues, forms, assets or RFIs
Click on a jobsite image in the gallery to see its context.
Create photo tags for your construction projects and filter in the gallery to save time.
Create reports with photos, videos and 360 images to share, even outside of the project.
Know where your project stands with built-in tracking
Make sure your projects are on track for completion– Autodesk Assemble conditions and connects BIM data to design reviews, estimating, change management, scheduling, work-in-place tracking and more.
Our friends at McKinstry say:
“Instead of spending eight hours a week on Earned Value Tracking, we’ve lowered that to four hours. In addition to a 50% time-savings, Assemble has increased data quality by eliminating redundancies in tracking. We used to say that an earned value was within 10%, but now we can say it is within 3%.”
– Spencer Hobson, Senior Project Engineer at McKinstry
How do I get started with Autodesk Construction Cloud?
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