Construction

Project Brief: The No-BS Construction Management Platform Let’s be honest, most construction management software is a bloated, overpriced mess. You pay a fortune for a hundred features you’ll never use, and the whole thing runs slower than molasses in January. It’s built by committees in corner offices who haven’t stepped on a job site in years. I got fed up with it. So, I built my own. This is a ground-up construction management platform with all the core functionality of something like Buildertrend, but without the fluff. Using Python, SQLite, and HTMX, it’s ridiculously fast and responsive. There are no clunky JavaScript frameworks, just a tool that does what you need it to do—scheduling, daily logs, client communication, financials—and gets out of your way. The goal here isn’t to reinvent the wheel; it’s to build a better, leaner wheel for the GCs who are tired of paying for a fleet of 18-wheelers when all they need is a reliable work truck. I will update with a better breakdown as time permits. Here are some screenshots for now. ...

Your BIM Models Are a Ticking Time Bomb I was talking with a small engineering firm a while back about a project that went sideways. It wasn’t a big, dramatic failure. It was subtle. A set of plans sent to a fabricator had a few critical dimensions that were off by just enough to cause a massive headache on-site. The change wasn’t caught in the shop drawings, and the result was thousands of dollars in rework and a client who was, to put it mildly, not thrilled. ...