Viewpoint for Projects

Viewpoint For Projects is a document control solution for easily managing, accessing, and sharing large quantities of project documents. Viewpoint provides a comprehensive suite of software solutions with Vista that helps contractors synchronize all areas of their business. That’s why construction businesses around the world find Viewpoint For Projects to be an ideal fit for their project needs. Viewpoint For Projects provides all team members – owner, architect, construction manager, engineers, and subcontractors – a collaborative document control solution for achieving streamlined processes and clear communication. Easily collaborate with your entire project team by leveraging information entered in Vista and then publishing documents directly into Viewpoint For Projects. Automate and better control your processes and gain mobile and BIM capabilities to complete projects faster and more efficiently, while connecting field teams with project information wherever they’re located. The right software for exceeding project profitability, delivery and meeting cost, time, and quality expectations, Viewpoint For Projects is simple and easy to use, quick to deploy, and can deliver tangible returns on your technology investment.

Important Features of Viewpoint for Projects

Built on a Common Data Environment, Viewpoint For Projects includes capabilities for Document Control, Project Communications, Field, BIM, and a powerful level of collaboration and mobility.

BIM Manager

Experience a collaborative work environment for faster project delivery. This browser-based solution enables project teams to easily access, edit, and revise models, providing a complete picture of the project. You can be confident that you are working from a single source for all your model information, and so your teams can complete projects faster and more efficiently, from project inception to decommissioning.

Tie your construction processes and information from multiple sources to your model, which allows your project team to easily walk through the most current version of architectural, structural, and MEP models, either individually or in federated views models. Plus users can coordinate and update information; identify risks more quickly; and assign, track, and manage tasks to resolution, and so keep the project moving along.

Benefits Include

• Collaborative work environment with a single and common place to collect, store, share and manage models
• Faster project delivery
• Reduce cost thanks to more consistent data capture and reporting
• Reduce risk with tools to identify and resolve issues
• Increase transparency and visibility across stakeholders
• Easy client handover at the end of a project

Document Control

Easily manage, access, and share large quantities of documents, such as drawings, specification, schedules, contracts, daily logs, and mission critical reports. With comprehensive document management, you can ensure consistent processes, keeping tasks on schedule, and gain more control of your projects.

Effectively manage site progress by easily creating a photograph library. The integrated viewing feature keeps it simple to distribute drawings to your project team and review documents with the redline and mark up tools. Plus, use the workflow engine to automate and control the review and approval process for drawings, submittals, change orders, and other construction documents.

Benefits Include

• Simple and easy software that project teams will understand
• Collaborate effectively on documents with disparate stakeholders, team members and suppliers
• Maintain all documents and communication in one secure location
• Control and manage the flow of information
• Easily view and redline/mark-up documents
• Conveniently track and manage the update of documents with revision control
• Quickly upload and download documents without having to log into the system
• Effortlessly create libraries with access to the very latest documents
• Capture and control drawings that make up an essential part of any O&M file
• Ensure everyone is working on ‘one version of the truth’
• Maintain a clear audit trail and ensure compliance
• Deliver projects with greater transparency and efficiency for the entire project team

Field

With mobile capabilities – project teams on job sites can quickly and easily record and capture data, make observations, share and manage documents, raise snags, manage safety walks, and track the progress on projects.

Project Communications

Your project teams can avoid missed deadlines using Viewpoint For Projects to more efficiently manage and track projects. It’s easy to assign tasks with overdue reminders and alert notifications. Plus, improve communication with tools to manage email and correspondence; every query or instruction process can be captured and stored and is fully searchable – even beyond the completion of the project.

Dashboards and reporting features deliver a quick, clear view of key project metrics, which helps to easily visualize tasks and activities requiring action.

Tie your construction processes and information from multiple sources to your model, which allows your project team to easily walk through the most current version of architectural, structural, and MEP models, either individually or in federated views models. Plus users can coordinate and update information; identify risks more quickly; and assign, track, and manage tasks to resolution, and so keep the project moving along.

You can better mitigate risk while controlling the process and keeping tasks on track so deadlines aren’t missed. The user-friendly solution offers a familiar look and feel, as well as sophisticated security and permissions to meet your key requirements.

Benefits Include

• Immediate and easy access to key project and cost information
• Visibility and transparency across all projects
• Simplified workflows for processing change orders, subcontracts and purchase orders
• Reduce time spent searching and retrieving documents
• Reduce project communication turnaround time
• Complete audit trail where emails are captured, stored and can be searched – even after the completion of the project
• Reduce profit fade by staying ahead of scope changes and cost impacts
• Seamless integration with Cost Control ensures every project is under budget and profitable
• Secure, collaborative structure where users or groups can only see or do what you want