Increased production and profitability with minimal effort
August 16, 2017
Increased production and profitability with minimal effort
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with PlanGrid
PlanGrid is currently being used within our company to deliver up to date plans, specifications, and addendum between our office an supervisors in the field. We currently have three subscriptions of PlanGrid. One large subscription (5000 pages) for the main office to upload all documents for ongoing projects, and two smaller subscriptions (500 pages) that are utilized by our in field staff. The in field staff manages their downloads based on the projects they will be on over the next few weeks. PlanGrid has greatly reduced the time it takes to get accurate information from our estimating/project management staff out to our field staff, and eliminated costly errors generated from working off old project documents. In addition it helps keep the office staff aware of any issues on site during the course of our daily operations. The foreman is able to send RFI's, document damaged or incorrect work, and provide daily as built markups so adjustments to scheduling can be made as required.
- PlanGrid gives us the ability to maintain the most current set of drawings for a project. When plans change the user still has the ability to review the old version to determine where and why something has changed.
- PlanGrid lets the user include PDF documents for the project without using up the number of sheets in the subsctiption. This allows us to provide the field staff with specifications, addendum write-ups, and other internal documents our company uses to make sure things are done correctly the first time.
- PlanGrid allows our users in the field to submit RFI's, document issues, scale drawings, and provide daily markups of the work completed. This keeps our office staff informed of what is going on in the field and make adjustments to increase productivity and profitability.
- PlanGrid lacks in the scaling/measuring of plans. We would like to see an improvement in setting up the scale for a sheet and make it easier to measure in ways other than a straight line.
- I would like to see PlanGrids sheet recognition improve when uploading plan sheets. Sometimes it picks up the plan number and title, but not consistently.
- The use of PlanGrid has cut down on our printing cost for plan documents. We can now upload the most current set of plans and instantly have it distributed to our entire team without needing several paper copies.
- With the ability to upload blueprints, specifications, and other project documents on PlanGrid we not longer have to worry about everyone within our company having the most up to date documents.
- The ability to document issues and submit RFI's via the app has cut down on our turnaround time for submitting pricing adjustments. Plus the general contractor is always happy to see supporting documentation for these requested pricing adjustments.
PlanGrid is the first application of this kind our company has used. After speaking with several other customers and competitors most feel this is the best solution for the cost.