Private Owners/ Developers

As an owner/developer you are involved in every phase of the project from plan review at the beginning all the way to when the project is finished. e-PlanSoft™ has designed four web-based software products that meet all of your project objectives from beginning to end to keep you informed and connected to your project. It is a complete, paperless, collaborative tool that allows ongoing monitoring of the project and simultaneous activities of all of the various stakeholders working on the program. It keeps track of all of the documents, as well as related activities, and generates rapid reports for instant updates, allowing the managers to manage the project instead of managing paper.

Four of our e-PlanSoft™ products bring new speed, efficiency and utility to the clumsy old systems used to manage plans and other construction documents.

epr e1292366022578 picture Private Owners/ Developers Electronic Plan Reviewe-Plan Review® is a web-based document review tool that allows multiple users to be assigned to multiple tasks, as well as multiple users simultaneously reviewing or marking plans for their respective disciplines. Architects, engineers, plan reviewers, managers, and owners are able to log in, view the latest plans, mark-up the plans, add and edit comments, review what has been done, see what is yet to be completed, and notify the next in the chain without wasting piles of paper, telephone queries, lengthy to-do lists or all of the other formerly clumsy methods. Everything is fully contained in a single online module that can be operated from any computer with Internet connection anywhere in the world.

Just a few of the long list of features include:

• Preliminary code review and implementation across all disciplines

• Constructability reviews

• Live, online document mark-up and stakeholders feedback

• Robust searchable comment database

• Red-lining and in-house drawing mark-up

epc e1292365765481 picture Private Owners/ Developers Electronic Plan Reviewe-PlanCheck™ is designed with cities and public agencies in mind. It allows a collaborative, simultaneous review process that lets each department check codes and plans at the same time.

Budget cuts have forced most Public Agencies to operate with reduced staff. At the same time their workload has increased. The only way to manage the overwhelming workload is to increase efficiency.

Our e-PlanCheck™ software is the answer to reducing review time, managing the work flow and ensuring more gets done with less resources. It reduces the carbon footprint as well, by making many of the tasks that once consumed huge amounts of paper, virtually paperless.

e-PlanCheck™ software allows simultaneous checking of plans by various departments without the usual wait times. Different departments can now collaborate with each other and leave comments or messages in real time so there are no delays in getting the plan checking work completed.

Management will now have control of the project status as all information is continually updated in real time, This allows the team to be able track everyone’s progress on their assigned tasks. It saves in administrative costs as well, not having to print, handle, move, ship and archive the piles of paper normally associated with the code checking of even the smallest of projects, let alone the major developments.

Some of the ways e-PlanCheck™ can help your agency include:

• Expediting agency reviews and minimizing bin times

• Simple, visual plan/document management, and tracking of progress

• Easy and complete reporting of all aspects of the project

• Reviewing by different disciplines simultaneously

• Fully documenting every action to ensure each aspect of the project is completed properly

• Standard comment database for easy reference

• Reporting and updates on the review-in-progress

• All projects are connected by agency, project, and manager

eps e1292366052571 picture Private Owners/ Developers Electronic Plan Reviewe-ShopPlanReveiw™ is a product tailored specifically for contractors, owners and program managers to coordinate and track all aspects of the construction shop drawing submittals and their documentation. This brings unparalleled utility and control of the submittal approval process for the projects. You can access every submittal related to the project from anywhere, even from a laptop in the field with a broadband Internet connection.

e-ShopPlanReview™ provides complete control and overview of change orders as well, coordinating and collating all the different documents associated with making changes. It speeds the entire job and allows simultaneous oversight by project managers and on-site supervisors.

Just a few of the many features e-ShopPlanReveiw™ include:

• Distributing documents to team members

• Reviewing and tracking shop drawings to ensure timely completion

• Receiving and presenting status reports and updates, anytime, anywhere

• Maintaining the document history throughout versioning

• Coordinating and storage of all shop drawings in a central location

• Ease of access to all shop drawings by a click of the mouse

• Preventing potential liabilities caused by delays due to printing and shipping issues

EPAB e1292365812287 picture Private Owners/ Developers Electronic Plan Reviewe-AsBuiltPlan™ software keeps owners and program managers fully apprised of the program’s progress. It is a complete, paperless, collaborative tool that allows generating the as-built drawings as it happens in the field and ongoing monitoring of the project and simultaneous activities of all of the various sectors working on the program. It keeps track of all of the related documents electronically, as well as all the activities, and generates rapid reports for instant updates, allowing the managers to manage the project instead on spending countless hours compiling information.

e-AsBuiltPlan™ will eliminate the need to store hard copies as well as drastically cut down the time lost in searching for them later. Find all of your documents at the click of a mouse and easily identify whenever they are modified or back-checked.

Just a few of the many features e-AsBuiltPlan™ will bring to your program include:

• Tracking all Contractor and Sub-contractor field changes on the drawings

• Managing documents relating to new and existing facilities

• Creating As-Built plan drawings when field changes are made

• Verifying code compliance in new and existing facilities and track changes

• Storing and placing RFCs/RFIs, FCDs and Bulletins on the as-built drawings online

• Providing backup redundancy to ensure the safety of and ease of access to your documents

• Uploading final punch list and online tracking of the punch list completion

Allow us to show you how we can slash costs, speed processing times, organize projects and provide easily accessible management oversight to your construction projects. To set up your no-obligation demonstration now, call 1.877.654.EPLAN (3752) Click here to schedule a demo.

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Patent No. US 7,975,222 B1, Jul. 5, 2011