Join, the collaborative project delivery platform for the built environment, recently announced the launch of Join Insights, its new preconstruction dashboard for general contractor executives. The first product to offer a firm-wide view into preconstruction project health, Insights is built on top of Join’s core project platform, renowned for helping project teams across the nation deliver a premier owner experience. 

Join Insights captures a portfolio view of projects in a single dashboard, giving firm executives the ability to simultaneously monitor risk and drive high performance.

The new feature shines a light on the highly critical preconstruction phase of projects, providing actionable status reports on preconstruction project health across projects and regions. Insights makes it possible for GC leadership to identify and scale positive preconstruction trends, and to quickly react to potential project risks.

“Until now, there has been virtually no way to track actions and outcomes across projects during preconstruction,” says Join’s Head of Industry Strategy Jason Brenner, who, prior to onboarding at Join, led highly collaborative teams for some of the most sophisticated GCs in the industry. “Typically, the only update a GC firm leader gets is from the estimating team every two to three months. And when the estimate is published, it may already be six to eight weeks old. This way of monitoring precon is like driving a car while looking out of the rearview mirror.”

Insights helps project and preconstruction leaders keep their projects on track by giving them a data-rich view into the preconstruction effort. Insights helps collaborative teams: 

• Assess which projects do or do not have a path to budget
• Understand the extent of past due and upcoming decisions on each project
• Visualize which projects are at risk for overdrawing allocated contingencies or allowances

Without a tool like Insights, the ability to track project health during preconstruction is limited to static cost updates every few months. With Insights, GCs can evaluate decisions being made (or not being made) on a weekly or even a daily basis. They can see if their design contingency is burning down too quickly. They can react to negative cost trends between milestone estimates to help support their project teams earlier. 

“Insights is going to dramatically improve a GC’s ability to control project outcomes,” says Brenner.

In addition to working for large GCs, Brenner also worked on the owner side for companies such as Genentech and Johnson & Johnson. He adds that the real power of Join Insights is that it helps collaborative teams deliver an exceptional owner experience. “We at Join have heard time and time again that owners love the ability to see where their projects are trending in real time and to understand exactly where teams need to focus their efforts. Insights provides actionable data when it has the greatest potential to impact project success: during preconstruction.”

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