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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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 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.
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!
Construction software industry observer Don Fornes, CEO of Construction Software Advice has posted an article noting that more construction companies are embracing web-based construction project management.
Fornes bases his observation on the behavior of the construction companies that contact Construction Software Advice to inquire about construction management software:
“Recently, we’ve noticed a big change in construction firms’ views on the web-based, or Software as a Service (SaaS), model of using project management software. Among AEC companies evaluating new construction management systems, we’ve observed:
- approximately 40% are asking specifically for a web-based system
- about 50% understand the web-based model and are considering it
- approximately 10% remain committed to managing software “on premise.”
These statistics are very different from what we saw a few years ago from buyers of construction software.”
Why the change in contractors’ willingness to embrace hosted, software-as-a-service construction project management tools? Fornes notes several reasons, all having to do with the simplicity and functionality that using a hosted solution provides.
Specifically, the Construction Software Advice clients recognize that the latest generation of web-based applications offer a high level of functionality. These construction management software tools utilize the broadband connections that are now typically available at the job site. In addition, a SaaS construction project management solution can make it easier to manage data, ensure data reliability and provide data security.
Click here to view the Construction Software Advice article online.
Congratulations to Procore’s client Finton Associates for their recent recognition in the Los Angeles Times (June 12, 2008).
The LA Times story outlines how Finton Associates is able to keep busy building multiple 20,000 square foot plus custom homes, even in a down market that is making it tough for many U.S. home builders to get by. In fact, Finton Associates President John Finton notes that business at the top-end is not letting up at all:
“Builder John Finton, who is overseeing construction of the 32,000 square-foot house on Sunset Boulevard for businessman C. Frederick Wehba Sr. and his wife, Susan, said he knows of at least 20 20,000-plus square-foot homes under construction or about to break ground in what he called the “platinum triangle” of wealthy areas in Los Angeles County: Beverly Hills, Bel-Air and Holmby Hills.”
Finton Associates is a long-time user of Procore, having brought its first projects onto the system in 2004. Now the company uses Procore on large custom home projects (including the Wehba Residence mentioned in the article) in both the United States and Mexico, and has standardized its operations around using Procore’s construction software for the information flow associated with building mega-mansions.
Finton Associates takes advantages of many of Procore’s features. Daily logs and communications for multiple jobs are all tracked through Procore’s construction project management software, and the document archive functionality of Procore has made it possible for Finton Associates to retrieve vital emails and RFIs on jobs where historical information was needed.
Procore’s ability to store and share digital photos makes it easier for Finton Associates to update home owners on job progress, particularly when the job site is in a location that is remote from members of the project team. Several of Finton Associates’ clients are having homes built in the Loreto Bay development in Mexico, and Procore usage is particularly important on those jobs.
Here at Procore, we’re always amazed to find out how many companies have trouble tracking their construction project information. If you have trouble keeping all of your project documents, photos, RFIs, change orders, daily logs and punch list items organized, you’re not alone.
You might say, “My company has a handle on all this document stuff. I’m sure everyone on the job site is doing just fine tracking all of our project information.”
Maybe.
As part of our plea for you to check on your company’s project document tracking process, we submit this recent story from the Associated Press.
It seems from this article that even the most high-profile projects are not immune to document mis-management:
Report: NYC Freedom Tower plans found in trash
(04-18) 14:52 PDT New York (Associated Press)—
The government agency building a 102-story skyscraper at the World Trade Center site is investigating the discovery of two sets of blueprints for the building that a homeless man says he found in the trash.
The schematic documents for the Freedom Tower, under construction at ground zero, were marked “Secure Document — Confidential,” the New York Post reported Friday.
The documents, dated Oct. 5, 2007, contain plans for each floor, the thickness of the concrete-core wall, and the location of air ducts, elevators, electrical systems and support columns, the Post reported.
Michael Fleming told the newspaper he found the documents on top of a public trash can in downtown Manhattan, with written warnings on it to “properly destroy if discarded.”
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owned the World Trade Center and is building the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower, has protocols requiring contractors and architects with secure and nonsecure documents to shred them, spokeswoman Candace McAdams said.
The agency’s inspector general is investigating the disposal of the documents, which McAdams said are bidding documents given out to contractors, agency staff and selected companies bidding on work.
Mishandling the blueprints would be “cause for serious disciplinary action — up to termination for employees and breach of contract and legal action for contractors,” she said, although she added the plans have been updated many times since October.
City police weren’t investigating the disposal; Tishman Construction Corp., the main contractor building the tower, declined to comment Friday. A spokesman for the building’s architect, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, didn’t return a message seeking comment.
Interested in managing your project documents more effectively? Get started with Procore today and store an unlimited number of documents and photos in a single, secure online location.
Procore’s approach of providing a fully-functional, no-time limit version of our construction software is drawing the attention of the construction trade press.
Constructech Magazine, a leading construction industry publication, notes that Procore’s approach to providing construction software may convince some contractors to investigate how technology can be leveraged in their businesses:
“One of the biggest deterrents for some contractors when it comes to technology is cost—cost of the software, cost of the implementation, and cost of the support. (Procore) is taking cost out of the equation, hoping contractors will give technology a try on the vendor’s dime.”
Two key features of Procore’s construction software have made it possible for the company to offer a free version.
The first advantage is that all versions of Procore’s construction software (free or paid) are web-based applications that can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection. This means that Procore does not have to charge users for software installation, servers, databases, or implementation costs. Because Procore is web-based, users can get up and running immediately, without the hassle of traditional software installation.
Procore’s second significant feature is simplicity. Procore’s construction software is designed to be easy-to-use, and easy to learn. Every feature of Procore has its own video tutorial that users can view at any time. With Procore, there’s no need for classroom training, or taking people away from work in order to learn how to use the construction software. This simplicity means that Procore can afford to deliver a construction software package for no charge, because users can teach themselves, without consuming customer support resources.
Click here to go to Constructech Magazine’s story on Procore’s Free Version.
Procore congratulates our client Loreto Bay on the article about their project which appeared in the New York Times Travel section.
Loreto Bay is a planned community located in Loreto, Mexico, that will be built out over the next decade. More than 800 homes have been sold to-date in the development, and the first residents have already moved into their new homes. Loreto Bay makes extensive use of green building principles, and is designed to fit harmoniously with its surroundings.
Procore’s construction software is being used by Loreto Bay to manage the construction progress on more than a dozen homes in the development. Architects, homeowners and trade partners located in the US have the ability to log into Loreto Bay’s project sites and monitor job progress in real time.
Because Procore’s construction software is web-based, Loreto Bay’s Mexican staff did not need to wait for software to be installed on their local computers—they simply accessed the projects over the Internet. This meant that the entire international team was able to get on the same page without any delay. Procore allows Loreto Bay’s project team to easily share important documents, archive digital photos for each home, and organize project emails.
Click here to read the New York Times article on Loreto Bay (March 7, 2008).
At Procore, we’re all about job site safety. You can’t run a project right if it’s not a safe construction site.
That said, sometimes you just gotta laugh at the problems guys run into. DeWalt has provided a situation in one of their latest commercials that looks like it might have even been real. But we’re pretty sure that nobody was hurt in the making of this bit of film. Check it out, and yes, it’s safe to view in front of co-workers and kids.
And remember—using Procore doesn’t make your construction project “idiot proof”. We just make it easier to document any trouble the idiots get into…