Managing a construction project or infrastructure project, presents its own challenges. These construction specific challenges need construction specific answers.

Scattered Team

There are always multiple stakeholders in any construction project – architects, design consultants, approving authorities (for permits), contractors, subcontractors, suppliers etc.

Work done by each of these stakeholders is critical to overall progress.

But, real time coordination with so many stakeholders from different locations is a challenging job for any project manager.

One solution is to connect all of them on a central communication platform – possibly a cloud based platform.

Remote Sites

Teams located on construction sites are usually not well connected to the rest of the project team.

Site engineers depend heavily on emails and excel sheets to send photos and updates from site to other project team members.

However that’s not a very convenient way to communicate.

But this connectivity problem can be easily solved with mobile devices. Provide user friendly mobile apps to your site engineers from where they can effortlessly share photos and other updates.

Learning New Software

Often we come across construction project managers, who tried use a complex ERP software for their project and failed.

Usually, other project team members are reluctant to change their ways of working and learn a new, complex software.

They would rather prefer to continue working with their favorite tools – emails, Excel sheets and shared folders.

This could be solved by having a digital platform which integrates all of these regular tools to a central database.

Manual data entry

Let’s face it – no one likes to spend time doing manual data entry to a bunch of spreadsheets.

Why should construction project managers be any different?

Yet, you will often find a project manager gathering progress updates and documents from different stakeholders and different sites. And then he has to manually enter all of that data to an Excel sheet or to MS Project.

This not only kills his productivity by taking too much of his time, but also diverts his attention away from key project issues to mundane data entry.

How to minimize manual data entry?

Create digital workflows to track the work done by your team. So a software can do the mundane tracking part and highlight any issues that arise.

Project Manager will then simply manage these issues.

Integration

So there are 4 key challenges in construction projects with 4 possible tools to answer each of them.

You can choose to use 4 different tools to separately answer them.

But that would have limited effect. Because you would be again stuck managing 4 different silos.

Instead you can try an integrated platform like WorkPack, to –

• Connect your emails, spreadsheets, document folders on a digital platform
• Place them in trackable digital workflows
• Connect all team members using PCs and mobile devices.
• Thus centralize your project on a cloud based platform

WorkPack has helped construction project managers across different industries in this way.

Can your team benefit as well? Find out by setting up a free trial account for your project.

OR get in touch if you would like to schedule a free consulting session on how WorkPack could help your team.