Item: Autodesk Build
Rating: 9
Author: Michael Carter

Support Rating

Support usually responds within 24 hours (many times lots quicker) which is great for troubleshooting.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our company we use PlanGrid across all departments, starting with estimating for proposals all the way through punch list before turnover. It has been a valuable tool with job tracking and management.

Pros and Cons

PlanGrid is ideal with the submission of RFI’s directly to the design team
PlanGrid makes real time Punch List creation and tracking easy
PlanGrid is much easier with an Ipad to perform job walks than carrying a full set of construction drawings
Revisions and changes are a breeze and update quickly

I would like to see PlanGrid assist in supporting photos from the user device not taken within PlanGrid
I would like to be able to manipulate documents loaded to PlanGrid similar to sheet markups
Adding a few more document templates for daily reports would be nice

Return on Investment

This saves paper while printing revisions which is an obvious positive
PlanGrid updates real-time preventing mistakes during production
The ovelay sheets feature is critical in not missing plan changes for billing

Alternatives Considered

Procore

I feel that PlanGrid is much more useful in our organization than Procore due to the extra features and value

Likelihood to Recommend

PlanGrid is perfect for job site meetings and punch list walks. It is less than ideal for large conferences unless you have an available monitor to plug the laptop/desktop into.

PlanGrid has been awesome

Overall Satisfaction with PlanGrid