Fieldwire: Facilitating Effective Field Collaboration

Real-time communication plays a vital role in today’s construction industry where professionals leverage technology in order to achieve their project objectives. However, many a times, the construction workforce utilizes traditional methods like spreadsheets to view plans, track issues, and manage tasks. Relieving the professionals from following redundant and tedious processes, the CA-based Fieldwire offers mobile-first collaboration platform and application that allows field workers to access up-to-date information like blueprints, files, and tasks directly on their mobile devices. “We are instituting a culture of open communication through our robust construction platform,” says Yves Frinault, Co-founder and CEO, Fieldwire.

As a comprehensive construction management platform, Fieldwire supports field staff, including construction foremen, superintendents and engineers, in automating the plan views, versions, issue tracking, task management, and scheduling. On the top of it, users can create tasks, add comments, photos, and annotations in order to support end-to-end needs of construction workers. These tasks can be performed both online and offline to allow users to continue working even in cases when there is little or no network connectivity. The benefits of the application seem noticeable in the current scenario where most of today’s construction professionals have smartphones with them, at all the times. Having said that, the application phenomenally makes it easy to keep the team updated on latest information, infuse efficiency, and speed-up the project timelines.

Fieldwire’s application, Blueprint makes it easy for the users in the field to view, edit, and share the drawings. The app can also import and manage large quantities of blueprints such as multipage PDFs to display them instantly on mobile devices with high resolution. The other prominent features of the app include automatic sheet hyper-linking, sheet version controls, and markups additions to present a complete range of interactive construction archive. In addition, the blueprint app is flexible on both large and small screens including iPhones, iPads, and Android phones.