Contractor Industries

Tilt-Up Contractors

Tilt-up contractors, due to the need for expensive, large equipment for erection and the variety of structural materials necessary in various tilt-up jobs, resolving and tracking subcontractor management, job scheduling and equipment rental issues are key to successful and profitable jobs.

How large is the slab to be erected? Has the appropriate concrete supplier been coordinated with the equipment supplier for erection equipment? ComputerEase job scheduling and project management tools let you quickly and easily answer these questions.

Have weather conditions affected cure time and altered the schedule? ComputerEase, with a couple clicks of the mouse, can tell you what happens to costs and schedules if dates need to change. If dates do change and subcontractors need to be substituted, just check the subcontractor center for others who bid the job and may be able to fill the void and how these changes affect job cost. You can quickly issue new contracts based upon stored bids and keep schedules due to weather conditions as minimally impacted as possible.

Need to update information from the site or access information from out of the office? FieldEase can help. From anywhere you have an internet connection you can link into your ComputerEase office files.

These are just a few of the ways ComputerEase construction management software can help tilt-up contractors project manage their jobs.

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"Needs are a little unique"

Tom Moore
President
MIS Construction Systems

One of the uh, areas in construction that we find ComputerEase to be particularly well suited for are, what we refer as, heavy highway contractors, road builders, utility contractors or site work contractors. Uh, their needs are, are a little unique compared to a general building contractor for a couple reasons. Uh, one can, one situation is that they provide not only the labor to do the work but their type of work, because of its nature, requires heavy equipment, like bulldozers, graders, those types of equipment, which are very, very expensive to uh, operate and uh, provide a big part of the construction costs and one of the big variable costs. Uh, where a person might cost you 30 to $50 uh, an hour, a piece of equipment's probably gonna run 90 to $150 an hour. So if you just run over uh, by a small amount, you can end up uh, with a big expense on there. And ComputerEase does a wonderful job of tracking equipment usage against the jobs, allowing you to charge the equipment to the job so that you'll know what the true expense of the job is.