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Fieldwire

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What is Fieldwire?

Fieldwire is a mobile-first (iPad / iPhone, Android) collaboration platform designed for construction foremen, superintendents and engineers. The application allows field workers to access up-to-date information like blueprints, files and tasks directly on their mobile device. Fieldwire focuses on the effective collaboration of field workers around three core use cases: Plan viewing & versioning; Issue tracking; Task management & scheduling. The collaboration platform is structured around plans and trades allowing users to create tasks attached to specific locations on plans as well as add comments, photos and annotations in each of them. Tasks are automatically uploaded to a centralized server (for automatic archiving and reporting) and dispatched to the other members on the project through wifi and cellular network. Fieldwire works both offline and online allowing users to continue working in conditions where little or no network connectivity is available.

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My experience using Fieldwire

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Fieldwire as a tool to take field measurements and take photos. The biggest problem it is solving on our industry is being able to document the field measurements with relevant photos of the existing condition under same task.

Pros

  • Categorizing the Tasks
  • Dropping as many pins as needed to take measurements and attach photos and videos
  • Easily upload the relevant plans and it creates hyperlink for the relevant sections and details

Cons

  • Editing on Scribble with phone is very difficult and if I don't save it at least once, my work is lost, and I have to redo it.
  • When I forget to put the name of the task, it itself puts the comment I inserted as the title. I would like it to notify me somehow
  • Fieldwire acts weird with ipad sometimes. If the plan is rotated while uploading and I use that plan to take photo in the site, I need to keep on rotating my tablet (a total of 3 times) to take photo. Still, the uploaded photo turns out to be upside down on computer.

Return on Investment

  • It has made office work very easy
  • It is good ROI

Usability

The Benefits of Fieldwire

Incentivized
Jessica RondashView profile
Technology and Business Systems Manager in Information Technology at Holt Construction Corp. (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • View the most up to date plans
  • Mark up plans

Cons

  • The ability to mark up photos after uploaded

Return on Investment

  • It has allowed us to catch issues before they compound on site.
  • It allows supers to look at their plans from anywhere on-site through the ease of an iPad.

Alternatives Considered

PlanGrid

Other Software Used

Vista by Viewpoint

Area Man Ecstatic About Fieldwire

Incentivized
Mark Higgason
Executive Vice President in Corporate at Encompass AV (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Communicating RFI and RFC requests from crew to management.
  • Easy to use mobile format for crew.

Cons

  • I wish more trades used it.
  • If it was cheaper, I would have more users.

Return on Investment

  • We have grown in size.
  • We spend fewer man hours traveling from site to site to monitor progress.

Other Software Used

Bluebeam Revu, AutoCAD, Revit

A must-have for construction and design professionals

Incentivized
Kylie Schalz
Principal in Engineering at Fuse Consulting Engineers (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Organizes data for individual tasks in one location.
  • Provides access to all team members, allowing fluid teamwork.

Cons

  • The software is geared toward general contractors. We are actively providing feedback to gear it toward engineers, architects, and design professionals.
  • I would like to see more options for mark-ups.

Return on Investment

  • We have been able to save our team so much time during the data organization and download phase, allowing more time for technical analysis.
  • We have saved our clients a lot of money by efficiently documenting deficiencies and seamlessly moving from one phase to the next without doubling work or losing data.

Alternatives Considered

PlanGrid, Bluebeam Revu, Procore and Raken

Other Software Used

Bluebeam Revu, Microsoft 365 Business, Dropbox Business

Fieldwire has exceeded our expectations

Incentivized
Verified User
Project Manager in Corporate (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Fieldwire to enhance the exchange of information between the office and field, quality control, real-time access to project information such as drawings, RFIs, submittals, and documentation. The mobile app is invaluable in the field.

Pros

  • Quality control, tagging a picture on the drawings is particularly helpful.
  • Assigning tasks to field personnel.
  • Having all pertinent files instantly accessible for review from the field.

Cons

  • At times it is difficult adding new drawings and keeping everything organized as I would like.

Most Important Features

  • Quality control.
  • Access to information.
  • Documentation.

Return on Investment

  • Punch lists have shrunk to a minimum.

Alternatives Considered

Procore

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