Teamwork works better with Join.
How can multi-stakeholder project teams benefit from instant decision-making organized around a single source of truth, and achieve greater transparency across preconstruction and the design phase? That’s Join – the platform that delivers true collaboration and real-time insights at the moments they matter most.
How do teams succeed with Join?
General Contractors
Deliver a premier owner experience, consistently
- Bring together all collaborators, costs and contexts in one place, in real time
- Build better bridges of communication between stakeholders
- Communicate where and how budget is spent with greater accuracy
- Manage business-level risk with insights-based confidence
The term general contractor encompasses a wide range of responsibilities. Join is for operations and project executives, preconstruction leaders and estimators.
Owners
Realize your business case with greater confidence
- Assure successful project outcomes
- Maximize ROI from project investment
- Reduce costly change orders and redesigns
- Always know where the project stands
Design Teams
Maintain the project vision while collaborating on key decisions
- Collaborate more easily with contractors
- Align cost/scope/timeline at conceptual level
- Utilize project decision log to save time and reduce risk
- Gain instant insight into project status with highly visual, real-time updates
- Faster cost feedback enables faster and more confident decision-making
Trades
A seat at the table, a say in the process
- Be involved in the process earlier
- Estimate and complete projects with fewer disruptions
- Gain insights into overall project cost, design, and direction
- Collaborate with project stakeholders more seamlessly
- Get in and out quickly
General Contractors
Stay on track in the design phase
Join empowers GCs to keep every project on track, starting in the design phase. Join doesn’t replace the GC’s existing process. It strengthens it, making gathering, processing and sharing essential project details easier. Project stakeholders are aligned with the same actionable information, data and decision history – all in one place. Risks are more clearly managed, goals are more easily achieved.
- Document preconstruction decision history – who, what, when and why
- Provide a durable record of why a project is on the track that it’s on
- Know which ideas have been accepted, rejected, incorporated, or are under consideration, in real time
- Generate up-to-the-minute project reports with the click of a button – from cost estimates to pending decisions
Owners
Project outcomes, assured
Business cases are as varied as building prototypes are unique. Join enables owners and developers to know exactly how their project is progressing. No more digging through emails and spreadsheets to locate project details essential to key decisions.
- Explore design options and cost impacts more efficiently
- Access current and past project information in just a few clicks
- Accept or reject ideas, or request more information to aid in decision-making
Join at Work:
65 stakeholders at the digital roundtable
When a massive project team, led by a general contractor joint venture, set out to construct a new hospital, it turned to Join. Seamless multi-stakeholder collaboration between architects, engineers, trade partners and owner representatives enabled trust to be built, budget targets to be met, and ensured a critical community asset was built with more consensus and less friction.
Design Teams
Project vision, realized
Join is the ultimate teamwork catalyst, streamlining true collaboration between design teams, contractors, owners, and extended stakeholder teams. Join creates a centralized, detailed knowledge base that enables architects and design teams to partner with GCs earlier in the process to optimize decisions and improve communication while maintaining the overall design vision.
- Streamline communication with key stakeholders
- Coordinate cost, design, and timeline with greater confidence
- Access visual, real-time updates for instant insight into project status
Trades
Targeted engagements,
greater inclusion
Join makes working with general contractors easier and more effective. Trade partners are given a seat the table sooner rather than later, eliminating confusion that can impact schedule and cost. Engagements are more targeted, with greater visibility into scope. No more of those last-minute requests for price updates that can frustrate outdated bidding systems.
- Eliminate guesswork through improved communication
- More involvement in the process results in greater cost and schedule certainty
- Who said what, when or why – is never a question
- Start and exit project with greater efficiency
