A slowdown in the economy typically has a ripple affect across the construction industry.  Owners are pressured to tighten their belts and to reduce store construction costs.  All aspects of the construction process are examined, including both hard and soft costs.  One soft cost item for which we continually receive feedback from our general contractors on, is the delayed notification of a project’s bid due date or construction start date.  Owners who communicate more efficiently with their general contractors receive better pricing because the contractor knows that scheduling his superintendent and project manager will be easier and that they will be alerted quickly to changes so that they can assign their team to a new or different project thereby saving them valuable overhead costs.

General contractors and owner vendors tend to be the last to know.  This is not done on purpose but is a direct effect of the limitations of the format used internally by owners to manage their store construction dates.  Typically these store construction dates contain confidential information that should not be shared, so it is not easy for an owner project manager to simply forward the documents to his or her general contractors or vendors without a lot of time consuming editing.

Report Hawk’s Project Date tab makes this communication process as simple as 1-2-3. 

1.       Click the tab

2.       Change the date

3.       Click update

Your general contractors and vendors are automatically notified via email.  Want to make it even easier?  Sign up for our project coordinator service and we will update your projects for you on weekly basis.

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