How much time have you spent digging through emails, spreadsheets, and network drives looking for one piece of project information?
You need it to keep work moving without asking five different people. Worse, someone in the field needs it. Without it, the crew either stops working or wings it and hopes they're right.
The next day, you find a random email titled "RFI 6." It never made it through because the attachment was too large. Now you have to make the call: go back, tear it out, rework the install. The schedule slips.
Sound familiar? If not, congratulations, you may be the most organized person in construction. For the rest of us, this happens more often than we'd like to admit.
Thankfully, Autodesk Forma helps eliminate much of this frustration so teams can spend less time searching for information and more time delivering projects.
Stop Chasing Your Tail
Now multiply that scenario across five active projects. Every ASI. Every RFI. Every submittal. Every budget meeting. Every email.
It's no surprise construction continues to struggle with waste, delays, and rework. Countless industry studies point to one common problem: disconnected information. One example is the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Cost Analysis of Inadequate Interoperability in the U.S. Capital Facilities Industry, which highlights the significant costs of disconnected project information.
Construction teams aren't short on effort. They're short on one place to find the truth. Project information lives across multiple systems that don't communicate. Drawings are in one application, RFIs in another, field updates are in text messages, and the person with the answer is on vacation.
Everything takes longer than it should. One industry survey found crews spend more than five hours every week just searching for current project information, before accounting for the time spent fixing mistakes caused by outdated data.
The Biggest Culprits
- Version Control: The field is building from last week's drawing.
- Slow Answers: RFIs sit in inboxes while everyone waits.
- Disconnected Teams: Office decisions take hours or days to reach the field.
- Lack of Accountability: Without centralized, time-stamped records, it's difficult to track decisions.
- Closeout Chaos: Project information gets scattered or handed off when the team moves on.
The systems many organizations rely on simply weren't built for today's complex construction projects.
A Better Way
Imagine one place for your drawings, specifications, files, RFIs, submittals, emails, and action items. One source of truth instead of multiple applications and disconnected workflows.
Office and field teams work from the same real-time information while internal and external partners collaborate seamlessly. Everyone knows where to find the latest information, whether they're in the office, on a mobile device, or offline.
Questions get answered faster. Teams stay aligned. Decisions are documented and time-stamped. Work keeps moving. That's connected construction.
With Autodesk Forma Data Management and Forma Build, project teams can centralize information, improve collaboration, and confidently deliver projects from planning through closeout.
See It in Action
Join IMAGINiT's webinar to see how Autodesk Forma Data Management and Forma Build help teams:
- Centralize project communication
- Create a single source of truth
- Connect office and field teams in real time
- Reduce rework and improve collaboration
Ready to stop chasing project information? Join Alan DeLuce on July 23 to see how Autodesk Forma Data Management and Forma Build create a connected construction environment that keeps teams aligned, reduces rework, and helps projects move forward with confidence. Reserve your spot today.
