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Genesis Medical Imaging Implements Procore For Project Management

2010-03-08T06:00:00Z

Genesis Medical Imaging, the nation’s largest independent service organization for CT and MRI machines, has selected Procore to be its standard for project management software. Genesis has a nationwide team that provides cost-effective equipment and services for hospitals and imaging centers in North America and abroad. Genesis’ offerings include nationwide service contracts, mobile units, refurbished CT & MRI equipment, cryorefrigeration and magnet services.

Having a nationwide team conducting installation and service for CT and MRI machines presents several challenges for Genesis. The machines that the company provides are vital for hospitals— delays in installation or scheduled service can have a serious impact on the quality of care an institution provides, and are costly as well. For Genesis, accurate and timely project communication and collaboration is critical for its customers’ success.

This requirement for best-in-class project management led Genesis to conduct a thorough investigation of today’s leading construction management software packages. After reviewing the options, Procore stood out. Procore’s ability to deliver full-featured document management, seamless integration with existing email systems, and tight linkage to MS Project’s scheduling software convinced Genesis that Procore is the right construction management application for their business. Procore’s web-based delivery also means that Genesis’ nationwide team can quickly and efficiently collaborate on installation and service projects from any computer with an Internet connection.

Procore CEO Tooey Courtemanche was pleased that Procore had been selected after Genesis evaluated several competing products. “Once again, Procore has been recognized for its ease-of-use, powerful feature set and superior value. We’re proud to welcome Genesis Medical Imaging to the Procore client base, and we look forward to helping them keep their projects on track.”

Georgia College Selects Procore Construction Software

2010-03-01T17:38:00Z

Procore has been selected by Georgia College & State University as the construction project management software for use by the Facilities Planning Department. Procore has received formal notice that the company has been awarded a multi-year contract with Georgia College, after participating in a rigorous and competitive request-for-proposal (RFP) process.

Founded in 1889, Georgia College enrolls more than 6,600 students in more than 40 different majors. The main campus, located in the heart of Georgia, consists of 43 acres of academic and administrative buildings.

Georgia College’s Facilities Planning Department works on anywhere from 25 to 50 projects simultaneously, with a total annual construction value well over $50 million. The Facilities Planning Department chose Procore in order to implement a web-based project management system for use by project managers and administration officials. Users will be able to log onto the Procore system to track schedules, project budgets, and documents.

Procore CEO Tooey Courtemanche commented that “We are proud to have been selected by Georgia College, particularly as the result of a multi-month competitive bidding process. GCSU’s thorough evaluation of Procore’s features, functionality and usability ensured that the College would get the most user-friendly, cost-effective and powerful construction software in the market. The fact that Procore was chosen as the preferred solution validates the vision for our product.”

Major Michigan and Florida Contractor Selects Procore's Construction Software

2010-02-17T08:00:00Z

Owen-Ames-Kimball Co. has chosen Procore’s construction software as its standard application for project collaboration, communication, and document management. O-A-K will use Procore in its Michigan operations, out of its Grand Rapids office and its wholly owned subsidiary Muskegon Construction Company. In addition, O-A-K will also employ Procore as the standard construction software for its Florida offices located in the cities of Fort Myers, Naples and Punta Gorda.

With office locations and projects stretching from Michigan to Florida, O-A-K required a construction software application that was simple to implement, easy to use and cost effective enough so that the entire company could standardize on the software, no matter how big the project or where the project site and team members are located. Procore fits the bill. O-A-K used Procore’s construction software on a pilot project for over a month to confirm, with real world use in the field, that Procore represents the market’s best value in construction collaboration and communication software. After the pilot period, the verdict came in: get Procore!

Founded in 1891, O-A-K has grown to become one of Michigan’s most respected general contractors, with notable projects such as the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in its project portfolio. O-A-K has completed major public and private projects throughout the United States, including offices, retail stores, hotels, hospitals, churches, airport facilities, schools and civic buildings. An employee-owned company, O-A-K has a clear mission: to commit to every job a team with skill, responsibility, and integrity that blends the highest work ethic with today’s technologies.

Procore CEO Tooey Courtemanche said, “O-A-K is an example of a well-established general contractor that is implementing 21st century technologies to continue to grow a company that was established 119 years ago. With offices and projects located throughout the U.S., O-A-K recognized that Procore’s web-based project management and collaboration could keep everyone on its project teams on the same page. Procore is proud that we’ve been selected to help O-A-K succeed in their next 100 years of business.”

Nova Corp. Chooses Procore For Construction Software

2010-01-12T07:00:00Z

Leading Mission Critical facility construction manager Nova Corp, Inc. has selected Procore as its company-wide standard for construction project management collaboration and communication.

As a worldwide construction management company, Nova requires a collaboration and project management tool that can be rapidly delivered to any employee with an Internet connection. After using the software on several pilot projects, Nova moved to standardize its operations on Procore based upon real-world experience with the construction software.

Nova Executive Vice President of Operations Robert Pappas noted that “Nova has been able to work hand-in-hand with Procore to actually improve how the software works with our organization. Procore listens to input, and works with the Nova team to enhance Procore’s functionality and ease-of-use. At Nova, we’ve seen for ourselves how Procore can rapidly deliver the features we need the most.”

With offices located throughout North America, the United Kingdom and the Middle-East, Nova is one of the world’s leading international construction managers for the successful completion of data centers and other mission critical facilities. In the past eight years, Nova has designed, built and commissioned over six million square feet of data centers in the United States, Mexico, Canada and the United Kingdom. The company has recently opened an office in Dubai in order to service its clients’ expansion into the Middle-East region. More than 90% of Nova’s business comes from its existing customers, who continue to employ Nova’s services to facilitate repeated and successful entry into new markets.

“Nova manages mission critical projects around the globe, and they require construction management software that can keep up with their rapid development timeframes, ” said Procore CEO Tooey Courtemanche. “With project team members distributed worldwide, Nova requires a web-based tool that is easy to learn, easy to use, and can be quickly improved to fit Nova’s needs. I’m proud that Procore has been selected as Nova’s construction software of choice.”

Fun: Tape Measure Wizard

2009-12-28T23:48:00Z

At Procore, we have a lot of respect for our customers’ skills. The best construction software in the world can’t manage a project if you don’t have skilled trades on the job.

In celebration of those skills, we offer you the following video. Some say these feats can’t be real—but maybe you have someone on your project site who can beat these guys?

Send us your own video of “job site skills”, and maybe we’ll make you famous on Procore’s blog…

Construction Software - What's Going On?

2009-11-13T23:12:00Z

Austin, TX based Software Advice provides a software purchasing advisory service that we’ve written about before on the PowerTool blog. Software Advice takes calls from people seeking construction software and then directs those callers to the appropriate software vendor. These software vendors pay Software Advice for generating relevant customer leads, and the software user gets free advice and direction on which of the many types of available software vendors to contact.

For everyone involved, this is a great service. Customers quickly learn who makes the right kind of software for their needs, and vendors don’t get calls from customers interested in a type of software that the vendor doesn’t make.

Software Advice gets paid by their software vendor clients regardless of whether any software is actually purchased. As a result, we have found that Software Advice has a market viewpoint that is remarkably free of bias towards one vendor or a single type of product. Each year, Software Advice speaks with thousands of prospective software buyers. As a result of these conversations, the company has a great perspective on what’s going on in the construction software market.

Software Advice has recently provided an overview of the construction market with a blog post entitled Construction Software State of the Industry Report. This analysis is a timely summary of trends that Procore also sees in the market for construction software—particularly the nearly complete acceptance of Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery. In addition, the Software Advice piece notes the growing demand for LEED Certification Tracking systems, an area which Procore has expanded into with the recent release of our LEED Credit Tracking module.

We’re pleased to see that Software Advice agrees that Procore is on the leading edge of two of the strongest trends we’ve seen with our own customers—LEED Certification Tracking, and Software-as-a-Service application delivery.

Voice of The Customer: Procore Reviews

2009-10-05T22:41:00Z

The web site ConstructionSoftwareReview.com has lots of information that can be useful for companies seeking information about construction software. The site collects user reviews from customers who actually use the construction software every day on their jobs.

ConstructionSoftwareReview is an independent site. The reviews collected come straight from the software user. Listening to the nice things our customers have said makes us feel pretty good. It’s nice when all the hard work is well-received by the people we’re trying to help with Procore.

Here are some of the comments that Procore users have submitted:

“Use of Procore allowed our staff and subcontractors, as well as our clients, to follow the progress of the job with ease.” Patty Gueblin, Stellar Energy Solutions

“Although Procore is easy to use, the vendor provides quality user support. “I’ve called many times, and each time everyone at Procore has been friendly, helpful and professional.” Steve Bunting, Mid-Eastern Builders

“Great job, Procore. This software is very helpful in our day-to-day job. Tasks that took many tools we can now do with one.” James McNeal, Bender Chaffey Construction

“Procore is a highly efficient, almost effortless program for [construction] project management.” Katy Griffin, East Carolina University

Click here to see more Procore customer surveys on ConstructionSoftwareReview.

All we can say to our customers is “Thanks! We’ll keep working hard to get feedback like this!.”

NOTE: Procore is not a client of ConstructionSoftwareReview.

Chart View of RFIs and Submittals

2009-09-17T21:35:00Z

Procore now features a Chart View for tracking the progress history of RFIs and Submittals.

For RFIs, the Chart View allows you to view the overall Net Resolved RFIs over time. You’ll be able to see how many RFIs were opened during each month of the project, how many were closed, and what the Net Resolved RFI total was in any project month. The same analysis can be viewed for Open vs. Closed Submittals over the the life of the project.

These new views are part of Procore’s mission to help manage project information and make it usable. Paper-based systems can track RFIs, and you can also manage Submittals using your email Inbox. But if you manage your construction projects using paper files or email, you won’t be able to easily use the information that comes from your experience on each project.

With Procore, this kind of project information is available with the click of a mouse. Procore lets you collect project data, search for information, find project details and analyze project history. With Procore, your team can get BETTER at managing jobs—which makes you more productive and your projects more profitable.

To learn more, call us at 1-866-477-6267, or email us at support@procore.com

Customer Testimonial - Associated Pacific

2009-08-17T09:08:00Z

Joe Patterson, Project Manager at Associated Pacific Constructors (www.associatedpacific.com) recently sent us a video explaining why he likes Procore. Joe uses Procore to manage coastal and offshore projects—and he let us know that Procore can be recommended to improve project efficiencies on both land and sea.

Check out Joes’s video, below.

Send in your video on why you like Procore and we’ll add it to our blog. Email us at support@procore.com, or call 1-866-477-6267 for details.

Procore LEEDing The Way

2009-07-27T20:54:00Z

Procore now offers the capability to track LEED credits on any construction project. LEED certification can increase the desirability and marketability of almost any project, and may help to set a project apart from the competition. The challenge lies in tracking all of the information and documentation that supports the award of each LEED credit.

In response to customer demand, Procore has recently rolled out a LEED credit tracking feature. Using Procore, construction managers and LEED APs can associate individual submittals, change orders, and even project emails with specific LEED points. Using Procore to track LEED credits results in LEED documentation that is assembled as the project progresses, instead of “after the fact.” Associating project documents with LEED points during the project, rather than after project completion, makes it much easier to have all the proper documentation in place when it comes time to apply for a specific LEED credit.

The construction software experts at Software Advice recently examined Procore’s LEED capabilities and have a nice blog piece that relates their findings. During their conversation with Procore CEO Tooey Courtemanche, Software Advice noted that using a construction project management software application like Procore can help to reduce project risk:

“Project management software mitigates risk. There are big financial ramifications if you fall from a gold to silver, or off the podium entirely. As Courtemanche explained to us, “Just as accounting software has become a ’source of truth’ for financial reporting, project management software is a source of truth for LEED certification.”

LEED certification is too important to a project’s value—leaving the full documentation process until the end of the project is a new source of risk that can be mitigated by using Procore. Interested in learning more about Procore’s LEED credit tracking capability? Give us a call at 1-866-477-6267, or email us at sales@procore.com.

Click here to go to Software Advice’s blog post on using construction project management software to track LEED credits.

RADICALLY IMPROVED Document Management

2009-06-29T23:26:00Z

We’ve put a lot of work into Procore’s Document Management tool this month. The result: a radically improved tool that beats the competition, at a price that others can’t touch.

One thing that hasn’t changed is that Procore is STILL the only construction project management software application to offer Unlimited Document Storage Space at no extra charge. There’s never a limit on your document storage space in Procore.

After reviewing Procore’s new features, we think you’ll agree that Procore gives you an unbelievably powerful Document Management capability. Plus, all of these new features are easy to use!

Check out the new functions that come standard with Procore’s Document Management:

Document Permissions: Set access permissions from the Folder level all the way down to individual documents. Users can have their permissions set in any combination of levels. This means a user can have full document access on one project, partial access on another, and no access to documents on yet another project. Procore lets you do all of this with just a couple of clicks.

Drawing Log: Procore has a full drawing log, so that you can automatically track changes for all your plan files. New file versions are automatically numbered in sequence during the upload process, as well as time- and date-stamped.

Watch Folders: Procore automatically sends you an email you whenever a file is uploaded or downloaded from any specified directory or set of folders that you set as “Watch Folders”.

Download History: Want to know who on your project team has downloaded a particular file? Procore’s Document Management tool gives you this information for every file, automatically.

Weekly Document Update: See exactly what new documents were uploaded this week—Procore provides this feature as a standard view.

Related To: Procore tracks how every document in your online archive is used—telling you whether a specific document was part of an RFI, a Submittal, or included in Meeting Minutes. Just look at the “Related To” detail for any document, and you’ll get the full story.

Procore: Full Featured Document Management

To learn more, call us at 1-866-477-6267, or email us at support@procore.com

New In Procore: Custom PDF Reports

2009-05-22T19:31:00Z

Procore now gives you the ability to customize your reports and templates with a specific look and feel. Add your company logo, match your company standards for fields and layouts—it’s all easy to do with Procore.

One of the challenges with most construction project management software is that you have to use “canned” reports and layouts. With Procore, you can customize PDF report layouts not only for your company, but even for individual projects that you’re working on.

This feature can be applied to as many reports as you like, and can vary from project to project within your same Procore account. This means that if you’re a contractor working on projects for multiple clients who want to see different report layouts, Procore can do it.

Or, if you’re a construction manager who has jobs with two different general contractors, Procore can provide you with PDFs that have different logos and layouts for each project you’re working on.

Questions? Contact us at 1-866-477-6267 or send us an email at support@procore.com to learn more.

New Features: Permission Templates and Meeting Minutes

2009-04-13T20:55:00Z

Here are two new features in Procore that were developed in response to user feedback. Have an idea for how we can continue to make Procore the best construction project management software in the world? Send us an email at enhancements@procore.com.

And be sure to check out these new features next time you log into your Procore projects:

Role Based Permission Templates

Procore now lets you use Role Based Permission Templates. This feature allows you to set permissions for a certain project role once, and have those permissions automatically apply to that role for all of your company’s projects. The standard settings for “Architect” or “Project Engineer” or any other project role can be used on all of your projects, without having to reset permissions.

Choosing the permission option to ‘Save This User’s Settings as a Template’ or ‘Load an Already Created Template’ will create or apply a role-based permission. This new feature makes it quick and easy to set up additional projects in Procore, without having to enter the same set of permissions for each project.

Improvements Made to Meeting Minutes Tool

Cost codes can now be assigned to Meeting Items, which makes it possible to quickly review your meeting notes to find items related to a specific cost code. In addition, Procore now send reminder emails out for overdue meeting items, notifying the assignees when meeting items have passed a pre-set due date without being those items being closed. This helps to make “meet and forget” a thing of the past!

To learn more about this feature, contact support@procore.com or call 866-477-6267.

Save Money. Save Time. Get Procore.

2009-03-16T19:46:00Z

Taylor Maxfield, Project Manager at Culp Construction (www.culpco.com) recently sent us a quick video explaining why he likes Procore. In his job, Taylor has to manage many different types of projects—after all, Culp Construction has been around since 1949, and the company is known for its expertise in all types of construction. Recent projects include major retail centers, churches, schools, civic buildings and even custom homes.

As Taylor notes, using Procore is “like having a full-time assistant”— he can can get more tasks done in less time. With Procore, Culp Construction saves money and time. Check out Taylor’s video, below.

Send in your video on why you like Procore and we’ll add it to our blog. Email us at support@procore.com, or call 1-866-477-6267 for details.

Fun: World's Greatest Brick Carrier

2008-11-05T23:27:00Z

Next time you need a laborer at your job site, you may want to consider giving them a physical ability text. You could have them demonstrate proper safety techniques, talk about the right way to lift and carry objects, and provide references from past construction projects where they’ve worked.

Or, you can have your job candidate watch the video below and then try to carry even half as many bricks as this guy manages to tote in one trip. If you find someone who can accomplish that task, and you need construction materials carried—hire that guy!