Leveraging TraceAir for Leaner Project Management

Lean construction is centered around finding value and continuous process improvement. The most successful companies are always on the lookout for ways to improve their operations, save time, and become more efficient. To stay competitive in the construction industry, continuous improvement must always be a focus.

It’s an exciting time to be in the construction industry. Innovation is everywhere and the industry is moving at lightning speeds. Despite all of the excitement, some of the more mundane tasks like billing, meetings, and progress tracking are inevitable. Although not exactly exciting, these tasks are time consuming and crucial to project and company success. Adopting a site work management platform like TraceAir improves several time-consuming workflows so construction teams can become more lean.

Better Billing Verification

When you receive a bill from a contractor, how do you know if it is accurate? Relying on timecards, truck counts, or simply taking their word for it leaves a lot of room for error. Did the crew get to work right away and meet all of their deadlines? Did every truck have the same amount of dirt? Most likely not.

TraceAir can add an objective perspective backed by data. 

Our Time Machine feature makes it easy to visually compare changes between different scans in a given area if you have regular scans. For example, some changes you can check for include:

• When a stockpile began, grew, shrank, or disappeared
• Equipment and trailer movement and locations
• Equipment arrival
• Grading progress
• Errors or damage
• Area cleanup
• Rainwater removal

Don’t pay for work that wasn’t completed or waste time with discrepancies. When everyone is looking at the same data and billing is backed by this data, billing is accurate and discrepancies are avoided. Learn more about using TraceAir for billing.

Confirm Elevations, Grading, and Current Site Conditions

Don’t waste time this year having the surveyor come out to confirm the grade before using TraceAir to virtually check it yourself. Using the elevation and coordinates tool, the contractor or project manager can quickly and easily check the grades, find any discrepancies, share the discrepancies with the grading contractor and have them fixed.

See how easy it is to verify as-builts with just a few simple clicks.

Improve Project Management and Communication

Project management is stressful, especially if you are managing large or multiple projects. Trying to manage countless vendors, and deadlines, sharing progress with investors, and addressing problems that arise is hard enough. Add in a global pandemic, crazy supply chain issues, and labor shortages and it may be the most stressful job on site. 

TraceAir is here to help. We provide unlimited licenses so that everyone from investors to contractors and everyone in between can view the data. TraceAir was specifically designed to be extremely easy for everyone to use, no need to be tech-savvy.  

Here are a few ways you can use TraceAir to improve project management and communication:

• Compare your current site conditions to any project plan using overlays
• Quickly and effectively communicate visual information to all project teams using markups
• Use the Cut/Fill Balance tool to balance your site, track remaining quantities and plan your operations

Make the Most of Meetings

Whether in person or remote, no one really enjoys meetings. Using tools like TraceAir allows everyone to get the most out of meetings. In preparation, TraceAir’s print tools make it easy to review 3D site scans of job sites that can be shared digitally. Using detailed topographic data in the meetings and then providing everyone with access to the same data allows everyone to leave the meeting feeling confident and informed.

Let’s talk about your 2022 goals and how TraceAir can help. Schedule a demo to get started.