From Trailer to Tablet: Making Schedules Work Where the Work Happens

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By Nitin Bhandari For most superintendents, the project schedule is both the north star and a constant source of frustration. It dictates everything from when concrete is poured to when drywall goes up. Yet, too often, the schedule is a dense printout in a trailer — or worse, a PDF emailed from an office far away. The gap between the schedule as planned and the schedule as lived on the jobsite is wide. A new approach — visual construction scheduling — is beginning to bridge that gap. Unlike traditional scheduling platforms, visual scheduling puts information in a format that is … Read more

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Planera Unleashes Visual, Collaborative Scheduling in the Field with iPad Launch

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Planera’s construction scheduling solution is now available for iPad users, making it easy for project team members in the field to contribute to the creation of field schedules for pull-planning and to update the status of those schedules on the jobsite. Historically, there’s been a disconnect between schedules created in the office and the planning that happens in the field. The office-created schedules are often built to meet contractual requirements — not to guide day-to-day work — and they’re rarely updated in real time. Meanwhile, superintendents and trades rely on spreadsheets or whiteboards to plan the work, adjusting on the … Read more

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