Construction project management involves groups of people representing different disciplines, from project managers, contract managers and division managers to subcontractors, architects, suppliers and clients — all trying to collaborate on a multitude of issues and changes while juggling multiple documents and contracts.
Controlling your construction project’s schedule, budget and deliverables is vital in assuring the success of your projects and the future of your business. But this can be challenging with slow responses, missed deadlines and late deliveries. Every unbudgeted change or delay in schedule can result in increased costs, risk and claim exposure.
What you need is a powerful tool to integrate these processes, bring together the entire project team and give you confidence throughout the project lifecycle.
This easy-to-use, browser-based solution delivers immediate access to the latest project details. Rather than waiting for a fax, telephone call or shipment, everyone — from the home office to field offices and even third-party team members — is equipped with the information they need to keep the project moving forward.
Reporting
Gain visibility With Primavera, accurate and up-to-date information is always accessible. Primavera’s powerful reports provide you with the visibility you need to control all of your projects. Track budgets, cost variances and project changes to analyze comparative trends and cause/effect among multiple projects, enabling you to maximize efficiency while minimizing project costs, risks and safety issues.
Comprehensive Change Management
Prepare for the unexpected Primavera provides change management power to assure that changes are resolved, payment is made and claims are avoided. Instantly reflect the cost or schedule impact of any change on your project, identify which contractors are affected and whether new equipment or materials are needed. With Primavera, you are prepared for the unexpected and have the power to negotiate details to final resolution.
Superior Job Cost Management
Forecast costs and simplify contract control With Primavera you can analyze budgets and funding, review commitment documents and record requisitions and invoices as they are received. The Cost Worksheet automatically collects and summarizes detailed cost elements from contracts, requisitions, changes and purchase orders and dynamically displays them in one easy-to-read form.
Executive Dashboard
Primavera provides construction executives with the early visibility required so you can prevent minor issues from becoming major problems. This comprehensive, actionable dashboard provides latest project status, new issues and alarms to notify you about potential problems. With two clicks, details are accessible to make decisions and to keep your project on schedule and budget.
Project Management
The key to running a successful project is to identify and resolve problems early. Primavera keeps the project on target with crystal clear accountability and user definable thresholds. Alarms are generated to assist in managing team member performance.
Contract Management
Summarize Contract Details
Primavera’s unparalleled contracts module improves contractor, vendor and supplier management. Contract managers can create, manage and understand the status of a contract in one simple screen. No longer page from one spreadsheet to the next to understand how the contractor is performing. Verify that contractor’s insurance is current, submissions were delivered as specified, payment requisitions have been submitted and reflect the cost or schedule impact of any change.
Expedite Payments
Primavera facilitates the preparation and negotiation of monthly payment requisitions.
Streamline the process by consolidating contractor requisitions into a monthly requisition, dramatically improving the time required to prepare and submit the requisition for payment. Easily integrate with your accounting system for complete cost control.
Procurement
Primavera organizes the complex purchasing process. The procurement model manages and easily analyses each bid. A thorough review of each bid allows for an apples to apples comparison by bid item and vendor. As a result the best contractor for the project is selected.
Award Contracts
Reviewing all items needing to be purchased, the contract wizard consolidates contracts and project administration. Multiple items can also be awarded to one vendor. The wizard assists in selecting the
most efficient contract for the optimum overall project delivery. From start
to finish, the wizard helps you achieve the most efficient letting of contracts for best overall project delivery.
Issues Management
Resolve Issues Quickly
It happens in every job. A problem, a misunderstanding, a difference of opinion that gets discussed, reviewed and debated and eventually spans an incredible number of people, documents and weeks of involvement. With Issues Management, no issue goes unresolved or unrecorded. Primavera ties documents together to create an electronic issue file, enabling you to maintain an accurate history of events, compiling what happened, when it happened and who is accountable.
Request for Information
A critical aspect of managing a project is documentation and managing the changes. Primavera organizes potential project issues providing project members an opportunity to collaborate on the question, proposed solutions and the final answer.
Keeping the RFI moving keeps your project on target and on budget.
Change Management
Change Happens…Manage it
Changes are an expected part of every construction project. Tracking, documenting and negotiating change is also part of the job. Primavera gives you a better way to track the change process - and make sure that nothing is overlooked. A comprehensive change summary view helps you quickly analyze the financial and schedule impact a change may have at any stage in the negotiation process.
Change Happens: Communicate it
Primavera provides an easy way to log, broadcast request for quotes, notices and design changes for rapid response. You can even combine multiple changes into a single change document for submission and approval.
Project Administration
Submittals
Managing submittals is simplified with an easy to view schedule of the submittal process. The submittal workflow moves documents to the right party for approval. Even incorporating multiple review cycles allowing you to know where your submittals are at all times.
Meeting Minutes
Accountability starts from your day-to-day operation on the project. Primavera tracks meetings, business items and the individual responsible for issues that arise on a project. These action items are displayed and alarms are generated for overdue actions, ensuring project issues are resolved quickly.
Daily Reports
Events are recorded on a daily basis tracking items such as material deliveries, weather conditions, project issues and operated equipment. The daily report allows for project’s progression to be tracked. All citations are stored in Primavera to record project particulars. This provides you with the day to day perspective and the required documentation.
Letters
Primavera centralizes the generation of letters to any member of a project. The letter is stored in a database for easy retrieval. You can now eliminate the tedious task of searching across individual workstations or servers to find a critical letter that resolves a claim.
Reporting
Primavera provides the unique ability to report on any issue in the database. From the day to day work on the project, a project can be analyzed for projected cost, open contracts, punch list or status or an RFI or submittal. Primavera makes information available right from the dashboard, so the status of your project can easily be viewed.
Printing Logs to Excel
One of the finest reporting features of Primavera is the ability to print logs such as submittals, correspondence and the cost worksheet to Excel. These logs can be defined individually by filters, sorts and grouping. With one click, a report can be produced in a MS Excel format identical to the log.
