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What trends will take hold in the year ahead? According to a number of construction professionals, one answer is mobility. More contractors are looking to take their processes right out to where work is getting done—in the field.

Keeping aligned with this trend, technology providers are offering their software solutions on new mobile platforms. Many applications are being introduced for the various platforms, including Android, BlackBerry, and Apple.

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Scheduling made easy with Excel - Designed for large or small contractors

BuildIT Construction Scheduling Software

COO WebOffice Suite

Construction Office Online | Features

Monday, 30 May 2011 14:01

As you may already know, the internet is becoming the central point of information and management.

We've found the internet to be a valuable resource for collaboration as well. What does this mean? It means that we've been using the internet as a platform to communication between our teams to store, organize and share project specific information like: Documents, pictures, notes, plans, specs, change orders, RFI and RFPs, and more.

ConstructionOfficeOnline.com is working on a platform where you can do the same. Our goal, outlined in the tabbed section below, is to provide the same strong platform for your business as well.

Take a minute to browse the features we're developing. If you are interested in staying informed about this new development, sign up here and you'll be among the first to know.

Benefits

		ACCESS ANY TIME - ANYWHERE Construction Office Online allows you to access all your important project information anytime no matter where you are. No bulky software to download - just login.				PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION With COO, your information is protected from hard disk and hardware failures, theft or hacking, fires, and virus attacks. All data is backed up regularly.

		INTEGRATED INFORMATION Enter the data one time and let it populate throughout your workflow. Your organization, team members, project info, and contacts all integrate seamlessly into the projects.				LOW INVESTMENT AND ZERO TRAINING COSTS COO is an immediate solutions you can begin using right away. Built to be simple and easy to use, you don’t have to spend money for training and lose productivity.

		PRODUCTIVITY Simply Tasks. Keep Recoreds, Analyze resources, Organize data, increases productivity while reducing overhead burden.				NO WORRY UPGRADES - WE DO ALL THE WORK No more complicated upgrades. As a web application, COO makes upgrades in the background so you don’t have to. It’s already done.
		COMMUNICATE WITH CLIENTS AND TEAM COO is the place to centralize your communication. Collaborate and share project documents, messages, pictures, tasks, schedule, change orders, RFIs / RFCs, Bid Logs, Plans, Billings, Releases, Submittals and more.				COLLABORATE AND CENTRAL MANAGEMENT With your entire project in one location, everyone will be up to speed with the current status of your projects at all times. No more doubling up on information. NO DOUBLE HANDLING.

Features

		DASHBOARD This is the overview area where you can see a summary of your projects. You'll find relevant information like Scheduling of current activities, tasks, Change Orders, pending RFCs, upcoming Bids, messages, and more.				DOCUMENT MANAGER Store your documents and share them with your team or clients. The system keeps record of the idfferent versions, comments, and a controlled access to optimize the collaboration. Edit your documents online without the requirement of additional software.

		INTEGRATED INFORMATION Enter the data one time and let it populate throughout your workflow. Your organization, team members, project info, and contacts all integrate seamlessly into the projects.				LOW INVESTMENT AND ZERO TRAINING COSTS COO is an immediate solutions you can begin using right away. Built to be simple and easy to use, you don’t have to spend money for training and lose productivity.

		PRODUCTIVITY Simply Tasks. Keep Recoreds, Analyze resources, Organize data, increases productivity while reducing overhead burden.				NO WORRY UPGRADES - WE DO ALL THE WORK No more complicated upgrades. As a web application, COO makes upgrades in the background so you don’t have to. It’s already done.
		COMMUNICATE WITH CLIENTS AND TEAM COO is the place to centralize your communication. Collaborate and share project documents, messages, pictures, tasks, schedule, change orders, RFIs / RFCs, Bid Logs, Plans, Billings, Releases, Submittals and more.				COLLABORATE AND CENTRAL MANAGEMENT With your entire project in one location, everyone will be up to speed with the current status of your projects at all times. No more doubling up on information. NO DOUBLE HANDLING.

Requirements

		ANY TIME - ANYWHERE Construction Office Online allows you to access all your important project information anytime no matter where you are. No bulky software to download - just login.				PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION With COO, your information is protected from hard disk and hardware failures, theft or hacking, fires, and virus attacks. All data is backed up regularly.

		INTEGRATED INFORMATION Enter the data one time and let it populate throughout your workflow. Your organization, team members, project info, and contacts all integrate seamlessly into the projects.				LOW INVESTMENT AND ZERO TRAINING COSTS COO is an immediate solutions you can begin using right away. Built to be simple and easy to use, you don’t have to spend money for training and lose productivity.

		PRODUCTIVITY Simply Tasks. Keep Recoreds, Analyze resources, Organize data, increases productivity while reducing overhead burden.				NO WORRY UPGRADES - WE DO ALL THE WORK No more complicated upgrades. As a web application, COO makes upgrades in the background so you don’t have to. It’s already done.
		COMMUNICATE WITH CLIENTS AND TEAM COO is the place to centralize your communication. Collaborate and share project documents, messages, pictures, tasks, schedule, change orders, RFIs / RFCs, Bid Logs, Plans, Billings, Releases, Submittals and more.				COLLABORATE AND CENTRAL MANAGEMENT With your entire project in one location, everyone will be up to speed with the current status of your projects at all times. No more doubling up on information. NO DOUBLE HANDLING.

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Construction Website In and Outs

Tuesday, 11 November 2008 19:22

A quick search online for a Construction Website will deliver tons of results from websites under construction to template monsters ready to sell you a template. Perhaps you've already seen this - and are here as a result of one of your searches. If so, you're in the right spot.

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COO Templates

5-Day Residential, 5-Day Commercial, and 5-Day Blank templates

Thursday, 17 February 2011 01:40

Download all the 5-Day Excel Schedule Templates

Don't spend money on expensive applications without first trying this schedule template. This excel template has saved me lots of money and time and is easy for my employees to use. I think you'll agree.

Description

How do you keep track of the construction processes? Whether you are a homeowner, builder or designer this is definitely one resource you should use. This is the perfect construction schedule using Microsoft excel with a Gantt chart that automatically adjusts based on task items and dates.

Construction Schedules in Excel for residential or commercial projects help the manager navigate through the job in the most efficient and effect way possible saving money and satisfying your clients need for a speedy project.

These construction schedule templates for excel are excellent for quickly building construction schedules for any type project. This template is already loaded with primary tasks and sub tasks - so implementing your own information will be very easy! See an example on YouTube- (This will open up a new window).

These templates come pre-configured specific to the residential or commercial industries which means you save time by modifying only the tasks you need. The rest are loaded into the schedule already - so basically you're almost done as soon as you start. If you buy now you'll receive all three schedules with your download link.