You’ve been working for months on your project. Everything is perfectly lined up and you’re excited to see things come together. Construction is going well.
It’s easy to misplace essential information on a project site, but it can result in budget overages and delays.
But somewhere along the line, someone managed to misplace an email with pivotal information about the wiring requirements for the building. You spend days searching through your inbox for that missing ZIP file to get what you need and by the time you finally find it, the project has started to go over budget.
This is what happens when information is kept in silos—things get misplaced and if someone doesn’t have the latest version of a project file, things can get out of hand very quickly. It’s a common problem in the architecture, engineering and construction industries that can be solved with the likes of project information management (PIM) software.
Managing Project Information
Those who are familiar with building information modeling (BIM) definitely understand the importance of that central term, information. BIM projects come with vast amounts of this information and it can be tricky to keep everything organized.
What’s the trick to solving this organizational disconnect? Information needs to be brought out of its silos and kept where everyone on a team can access it.
A recent release of Newforma’s Project Center software promises to do just that. It combines on-premise and…
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