BuildingBlok Reviews & Pricing

Key Features

• Cost Management: Manage and monitor financial activities to avoid budget overshoots. 
  • Estimating: Allocate resources to the right tasks to help prevent negative cash flow. Track and share financial data with employees to avoid costly errors. Automatically estimate labor costs according to project requirements. View and analyze contracts using accounting functionality. 
  • Job Costing: View current and projected costs to help make data-driven decisions. Review, approve or reject budget proposals directly from the system. Generate daily and weekly financial reports to analyze spending patterns. 
  • Change Orders: Create and access change orders from a centralized location. Add revision notes to COs generated by team members. Prepare forecast models to avoid unnecessary expenses. 
  • Payment Applications: Automatically calculate wages based on total work completed by team members. Enable subcontractors to submit payment requests. 
  • Invoice Tracking: Manage invoices electronically, eliminating the usage of paper trails. Encourage workers to submit invoices directly through the system. Create customized bills to ensure smooth transactions. 
• Project Management: Access project details and share documents using the mobile app. 
  • Bidding: Check whether subcontractors downloaded bid requests, declined to bid or submitted bids. Grant permissions to access and download blueprints to subcontractors to give them a clear understanding of the tasks involved. 
  • Bid Invitations: Create invitation lists and keep track of bid statuses. Add notes to bid invites and send them via email with just a click. 
  • Submittals: Assign submittal items to respective employees and keep teams informed about project updates. Attach relevant files to submittals to gain in-depth insights about projects. 
  • Punch Lists: Create punch lists to avoid missing out on important safety procedures. Mitigate risks by generating inspection reports. 
  • RFIs: Create and send RFI requests to subcontractors. Respond to RFIs quickly to keep projects on track. Prepare questionnaires to extract essential details from subcontractors. 
• To-do Lists: Receive notifications about task completions and plan further operations without delays. Create checklists to ensure all procedures are completed in a timely manner. 
• Timesheets: Enable employees to clock in and out from job sites via mobile devices. View workers’ locations in real time using GPS technology. Encourage project managers to track workers’ actions to help maintain productivity levels. 
• Reporting: Create reports to help predict timelines and manage tasks effectively. Compare daily reports side by side to help monitor project progress. Track labor hours using man-count functionality. 

Limitations

•  Difficult to run daily backups. 
•  Lacks integration with takeoff, estimating and payroll tools. 
•  The help tab doesn’t address navigation issues. 
•  Difficult to manage approvals. 

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