Published on:
May 8, 2024
We hear you – making your construction company go digital is not easy. Over the past 3 years, we’ve talked to countless construction companies of all types and sizes – from small general contractors handling single detached houses to large real estate developers that have gated subdivisions and business parks. Â
Regardless of the size of the company, implementing digital tools to manage projects better has been a big challenge.
The Steer team has always believed that successful implementation of any construction management software requires you to do one thing: to start small. What “starting small” means is implementing software one module in one project first, before going to another module or another project. Â
Starting small also breaks down the implementation process into smaller tasks, which you can then celebrate/recognize once achieved. We’re highlighting the word “first” because the first modules aren’t always the most complex solution that brings the biggest benefit to a company. Â
Change management is a big reason why a lot of the companies within the construction industry lags behind in terms of digitization. Starting small also means starting fast. A smaller, simpler module makes it much easier to setup, as well as much easier for end-users (your site supervisors, HQ staff, project managers, etc.) to adopt.  Because you’re introducing a simpler tool, the learning curve for them is not steep and they are able to use the software more readily and get used to doing a lot of the management process online.
The Steer team is recommending that you start your digitization journey with a construction daily report. Sometimes called CDR or construction daily work log, this is a simple and straightforward solution that most construction management software (like Steer) offers. Â
Managing multiple projects oftentimes involves doing site visits every day. While doing this for one or two projects may be easy to pull off, it gets much harder once a construction company has more than 3 projects. This is why having a construction daily report is a very good starting point in monitoring construction project progress. In a nutshell, to generate a construction daily report, you gather updates from site supervisors or project managers at the job site every day. The resulting report typically has graphs and charts that will be very helpful in determining whether your project is falling behind and why.
The construction daily report provides insight to the day-to-day activities within each job site and visualizes it through a quick-glance dashboard. This empowers executives in a construction company to reduce the number of site visits because the information they can access through the tool already serves the purpose of being on top of what’s happening in each job site. This ultimately provides a better understanding of the general progress of the project, make timely decisions on small issues, and ultimately gives executives time to focus on more strategic initiatives.
Our Daily Activity Report is an easy-to-use construction daily report software and we are letting every construction company use 100% FREE (no credit card required). We designed this tool to be incredibly easy to use. In fact, it takes just a few minutes to setup and a few minutes to submit your first report!
The Steer Daily Activity Report is broken into two parts: gathering of daily work logs from the job site and processing the report. Â
Our mobile app (available for iOS and Android) Â lets on-site supervisors and project managers submit each day the following: hourly weather updates, completed tasks, and manpower, and upload progress photos as well as document issues encountered and actions taken, equipment usage, and site visitors. Â
These daily logs are then presented in graphs and charts on our dashboard (found in our web portal) which project heads and company executives can review. Furthermore, the daily reports can be consolidated into a weekly report, which can then be saved as PDF/printed to share with other stakeholders who are not on Steer.
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The Steer team has a vision of empowering every construction company to manage projects online. This vision can become real by simply having everyone use the Daily Activity Report – free of charge. We know that the Daily Activity Report is a valuable tool in managing construction projects, but we also know that one of the toughest things for any company to do is implement a new software – and it becomes much harder if there’s a price tag attached to it. That’s why we’re making the Daily Activity Report 100% free to use, so companies like yours can jumpstart digitizing construction management process. After you’ve successfully rolled out the Daily Activity Report, you can choose to implement the other modules we have on the platform or simply continue using that one solution. Either way, our vision will be achieved. Â
Feel free to reach out to us at team@steerplatform.com if you have questions, but you can go ahead and sign up for your FREE Daily Activity Report.
