Assignar announces robust integration with Acumatica ERP: contractors are on their way to more productivity and profitability with a seamless tie between budgets and schedules
Denver, July 15, 2021 - Assignar, a cloud-based construction operations platform for heavy civil & infrastructure self-perform general and subcontractors, today announced a new integration with partner Acumatica Construction Edition, an Enterprise Resource...
Top 6 Tips to Increase Your Profit Margins
Successful construction contractors constantly find ways to improve their work, this leads to lower costs, which translates into higher profits and more cash flow. How do you improve efficiency and production? There are many hidden costs and timewasters that reduce...
Why are Infrastructure Contractors Deep in Productivity Crisis?
The construction industry is one of the largest in the world and yet, despite the year-on-year, multi-billion dollar investments from governments and the private sector, the industry finds itself in strife over productivity. A report by KPMG, Climbing the Curve, found...
Behind Our Series B: how we’re enabling contractors to build more through a connected operations platform
Today we’re announcing our $20M Series B round led by Fifth Wall. You’re welcome to read the press release -- for now, we wanted to share why this is an important milestone in the world of construction field productivity and business management through technology....
3 Ways to Make Data-Driven Decisions for Construction Projects
Challenges in the construction industry like shrinking margins and the gap in skilled workers is making collecting and accessing data needed to make key construction project decisions even more critical for project teams. Teams often don’t have crucial information at...
Women, Diversity, and Datathons: how Assignar helps expand horizons and mindsets around data in the workplace and beyond
Women in Data Science (WiDS) recently ran its 4th Annual Datathon, a three-week event that ended on the 1st of March. The WiDS Datathon aims to inspire women across the globe to learn more about data science, and to create a supportive environment for women to connect...
5 Reasons You Can’t Afford to Keep Using Paper
We don’t have to tell you that paper is still king in the construction industry. It’s understandable to some extent, as many of the documents we use daily can be difficult to view electronically. Drawings and other large-format documents can be tough to digest on a...
Tools to Help Streamline Your Back-Office Operations in 2021
The best contractors and field crews cannot operate without having a strong back-office set-up. Amidst a major recession and with the threat of lockdowns, having the best tools available for all the back-office departments (sales, marketing, operations, logistics,...
3 Ways to Promote a Culture of Safety
The construction industry offers extraordinary employment opportunities for a global workforce. As a significant contributor to our nation's economy, the main concern for those in the construction sector, unfortunately, includes high rates of injuries and fatalities. ...
3 Proven Ways to Get Employees On Board with Technology
COVID-19 disrupted the business sector on a massive scale, forcing owners and managers to cut costs and operate lean. Working efficiently while optimizing employee performance has become the new competitive edge, so many have turned to innovation, automation, and...
3 Unique Trends in Construction Workforce Development
The construction industry has dealt with labor shortage issues for years. With a lack of interest amongst high school and college graduates wanting to join the skilled-labor force, the industry has turned to unique methods to try to create enthusiasm towards working...
Women in Construction: How to Thrive by Showing Up and Standing Out
According to CNBC, women make up a mere 9.1% of the construction community. Few men know what it is like to walk into a room full of women and have all their attention turn to you. For women in construction, it’s a common occurrence to be the only female in a panel...
4 ways estimating with spreadsheets is costing you
It is quite common for contractors to rely on spreadsheets in order to create their cost estimates. Spreadsheets like Excel’s are a familiar tool that contractors already have available and they can be adapted to a broad range of tasks. While this makes spreadsheets...
3 Best Practices for Contractors to Get the Most Out of the Slow Season
April through October is the busy season for those in construction. What does that entail? It means working our crews 70-80 hours a week to get projects completed, project managers running from job to job to tie up loose ends, and hot plants pumping out hundreds (if...
4 Tips to Survive an Uncertain Market
Uncertainty is the only thing that is for certain right now in construction. 2020 has taken us all for a ride; pulling us back and forth between calm and hysteria, with our only reprieve being time spent in the unsettled feeling of uncertainty. The emotional,...