How Scheduling Improves Work in Your Construction Company?

Managing a construction company can be a challenge, especially when projects contain many separate processes with distinct time, budget, workforce and machines. Delivering products on time is crucial as strict deadlines and financial penalties for delays are common practice in the industry (learn more about the “True Cost of Project Delay in Construction” here). However, sometimes it is hard to control all projects when we get lost in the chaos of work organisation. Luckily it does not have to be that way. One of the cloud-based solutions inside our construction management software - Scheduling - helps the whole company to be up to date with the schedule of works and upcoming tasks.

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Benefits of Scheduling

How Does Scheduling Work Inside Archdesk?

There are 2 types of schedule inside our construction management software:

• General Company Schedule
  A cluster of tasks under all projects, and events such as meetings or time-offs for your workers. Generally, the main Schedule is based on project tasks and tasks not assigned to the project. Such a program can be filtered using just departments or disciplines, e.g. plumbing
• Specific Project related Schedule

To each schedule, we can assign employees, budget and assets (machines, vehicles, etc.). Project Schedule can also be represented as a Gantt Chart. This view is beneficial as we can set the dependency between tasks. For example, we can start work two days after the delivery of a machine. If the delivery is delayed, we can move the first tasks in the Gantt Chart, and the second one will automatically move off the same amount of time. Thanks to that, the schedule shows the most current situation in the company, which allows you to react to any changes quickly.

As mentioned before, there are also schedules for each department. To respond to needs of scheduling in a construction company, you can customise cost categories, disciplines or add custom input to your schedule. Dashboards - allows the employees to see the schedule list based on the chosen criteria. Each of the workers (if they have access to the schedules) can filter the list and see all tasks that are assigned to them. This tool helps in everyday work but also can be a great support while creating reports validating work of employees and specific departments.

When working on schedules, the access right can be changed anytime. Such a right can be adjusted for the company schedule (the general view for the company and whole departments) but also for each department. Thanks to that, we distinguish which employees should see the schedules, change them or approve working hours of other workers. Given rights depend completely on your company needs.

As you can see, the scheduling tool can help in many ways to speed up and improve the construction management process in your company. If you want to read more about how our cloud-based solutions can support you in daily work - discover other Archdesk features.