Daily Construction Report Applications Help Contractors
Given the immense amount of paperwork involved in construction projects, it is easy to understand why project managers don’t want more to add more to their busy schedules. However, due to the ever-changing nature of construction and the constant updates that happen during the project process, daily construction reports are necessary. Today clients, especially public sector clients, require daily reports on topics ranging from crew safety meetings to subcontractors’ staff hours. Even if your clients don’t require daily reporting, your employees should still make it a habit to create these records both to protect your business, and to create a tool that creates transparency across the firm. Mobile applications for daily reporting are improving how contractors managing their businesses by providing better ways to monitor productivity, improved accuracy of project information and increases profits. To better demonstrate how a daily construction report application, like TRUE Field, can help contractors, we put together this list:
Prevent Little Issues from Turning Into Big Problems
The small issues that can arise on a construction site can range from unreliable suppliers to safety hazards or anything questionable about the site. TRUE Field, daily construction report application, creates a record that can be used to justify actions taken (like additional labor or ordering testing) to prevent any problems from developing into a situation that could stop progress or put the project in jeopardy.
Total Transparency
As much as project managers would like to give each of their projects their undivided attention on a daily basis, however, that is just not possible, especially for busy firms during peak seasons. However, mobile applications such as TRUE Field offer construction firms reporting capabilities that give project managers insight into their crews’ day-to-day operations. When a project is well-documented with daily reports, like those created in TRUE Field, leadership is able to track each project’s progress in real-time at a granular level.
Protection from Litigation
Unfortunately, in the construction industry today, litigation is a very real possibility for contractors across the board. There are numerous reasons why disputes could arise in connection with construction projects; including excessive subcontractor charges, a page of the contract that the client claims to have “missed”, and even arguments over the physical condition of a job site. Regardless of how well a project is managed, and executed, contractors can easily find themselves on either side of a dispute; which is precisely why construction crews should always create daily reports in an easy to read format. TRUE’s software allows photos (and annotations) to be added to reports, creating both an evidence trail for litigation purposes and a visual record for distant stakeholders.
For more information about our Daily Construction Report Application, please visit www.constructtrue.com/true-field.