Located at the corner of Neil Avenue and Vine Street in Columbus, Ohio, the Flats on Vine will offer 232 units ranging from 500 sq. ft. studio units to just over 1,200 sq. ft. 2 bed/2 bath units.

Nationwide Realty Investors, Ltd. (NRI), a subsidiary of Nationwide, is a recognized real estate developer that is active throughout the United States with developments and investments in the office, commercial, retail, hotels, restaurant and residential real estate markets. Directly and through joint ventures, NRI controls more than $1 billion in real estate investments.

We are pleased to announce the addition of our latest enhancement– Submittal Manager!  This feature is available under each project in the scrolling navigational area.  Submittal Manager tackles the issue of submittal organization and follow up.   

Submittal Manager makes it easy to assign responsibility, copy team members, set due dates and prioritizes packages.

For more information regarding Submittal Manager or to schedule an online demo of Report Hawk contact Greg Zeller at greg.zeller@reporthawk.com

We are proud to announce the successful completion of Subcontractor Tracking enhancements!  The enhanced Subcontractor Tracking features now allow you to detail specifically what each subcontractor’s activities were for a specific day.  This new feature was driven from general contractor feedback, by itemizing each subcontractor’s work performed it is easier for the Superintendents to recall all activities completed for that day.  We also included this information in the project’s Weekly Status Report.  When you click the button to create your Weekly Status Report, we will automatically pull in a detailed list of all work performed by your subcontractors.

In addition to these new enhancements,  we have added Subcontractor Change Order Management to each subcontractor’s profile.  This gives a general contractor the ability to enter and track subcontractor change orders, associate them with a Request for Information (RFIs)  add photos, backup documentation and approve the Change Order.  All Subcontractor Change Orders rollup to a project report for quick review and action.

We are proud to announce our successful move to the Qwest Cyber Center this past weekend!  Moving to a new co-location, is a direct result of our acquisition by Expesite.  As Jeff Sopp, CEO of Expesite, and I talked about the benefits of the acquisition, we pin pointed early on that moving our servers over to Expesite’s environment at the Qwest Cyber Center would be a huge benefit to us and our users.  Our users will benefit from improved performance as a result of faster connection speeds.  In talking to Geoff Cook, Senior Vice President of Technology for Expesite, one of the biggest benefits users will experience is increased bandwidth.  With the move we increased our mbps by 500%!!  In addition to speed, security and redundancy have been improved.  To learn more about the Quest Cyber Center please click here

Brian Gunnoe

President

Report Hawk, LLC

We are proud to announce the release of Recent Actions.  Recent Actions is found on your company home page and displays all recent activity that has occurred on your projects.

The goal of the feature was to create a simple method for our users to view recent activity without scrolling their inbox messages.

The Recent Actions feature was a community request.   As a majority of our users travel from jobsite to jobsite and can be away from Report Hawk for extended periods of time they asked us for a simple solution for “catching” up on their projects when they login.

We will operate as our own subsidiary, but plan to relocate to Expesite’s headquarters in downtown Columbus to foster collaboration and create efficiencies across the two companies by using a shared services model for ongoing sales, operational and development support.

Here’s a “sneak peek” of the draft press release that will be launched later today to multiple media outlets, including local & national news services as well as leading industry trade publications.

The best news is that we will continue to provide “pure awesomeness” to you and your teams!!!

Brian & Kevin

You may have noticed a new look to our Home Page this week.  We have added a “Connect with Us” feature that allows people to network with us on Facebook and LinkedIn.  A lot of people have asked us, “Why did we add these features and what are the benefits we hope to see in these additions?”  Below are the three main goals we considered when adding these features.

Pages are Public:  Most of Facebook and LinkedIn are behind a login, preventing search engines from indexing.  However, our pages are not behind a login making it available for search engines to index our Facebook and LinkedIn pages.  We purposefully did this hoping people will stumble across our page as a result of their search, and visit our Facebook or LinkedIn page, and then navigate to www.reporthawk.com via the links in these pages to learn more about our company.

Stay Connected:  In these economic times staying connected with our users is very important to us.  As companies continue to downsize, we believe staying in touch with our users as they find new employment is a strategic growth opportunity for us.

B-Side Communication:  Our Facebook Page also gives us another way to communicate with our users.  Some of the information we share on these pages are what we call B-Side information.  If you a familiar with music albums, the B-side tended to be the material that didn’t make the cut for the album.  Therefore, this is where we are free to show the goofy and fun side of our company while delivering useful information and tips to our users.

We invite you to take a look at our LinkedIn and Facebook pages and get connected with us!

http://www.linkedin.com/in/reporthawk

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Columbus-OH/Report-Hawk/75724453249

Our newest release is the completion of our Warranty stage and Warranty feature for Owners.  In the past, we have broken down a project’s lifecycle into three stages: Preconstruction, Bidding and Construction.  With the release of our newest feature we have added Warranty as our fourth stage.

“The new Warranty stage and feature is truly a value-added service that we are happy to offer to our owners”, said Brian Gunnoe, Report Hawk President. “The ability to track a project’s warranty expiration date and ensure warranty items are corrected by the Contractor or Owner-supplied vendors is a simple method for reducing maintenance costs.” 

Upon the passing of a project’s turnover date or the setting of a project’s Certificate of Occupancy date via the last weekly report, your project will now transfer into the Warranty stage. Your project will be located in the Warranty stage for 365 days. During this time the project can be accessed through the use of our Warranty feature.

The Warranty feature allows an Owner to submit warranty items to the project’s General Contractor and if applicable, the Owner vendors. 

When a warranty item is created, the warranty item and its related issue are e-mailed to the responsible party notifying them of the warranty issue and recording the it in our warranty history table.

The responsible party can then take action on the warranty issue and once corrected, can send updates back to the Owner, detailing the corrective actions taken to resolve the issue. In addition, photos of the corrective measures taken can be uploaded with the response to better clarify the work completed.

 The owner, when satisfied with the corrective measures can close the Warranty Item.