Builterra platform Reviews

"Efficiency"

Comments: Its nice but interface can provide more information, such as we have a very big contract.
The contract has several roads in it, I work on one road and need an immediate update about the total quantity of work done entered or left...

Pros: Its a very efficient product I ever used. I like smart reporting software.
Its efficient, easy to access from anywhere onsite or office or from home.
No need more paperwork..

Cons: The online software should have offline software which can synchronize when connected to internet.
The offline version can be fast as the online version speed is depending on internet...

"Construction Inspector iPad App User"

Comments: Overall this is definitely an improvement over a clunky excel file, but there is still bugs and a lot of untapped potential left in the app.

Pros: I do like the template feature, the automatic weather feature, the contract item drop down list, and the “get location” feature. They did a great job on integrating this app for our projects.

Cons: 1. Should be able to complete the daily and EWO report without using the web app. Should be able to complete a report within the mobile app alone.
2. Once the inspection is reviewed it should automatically append a digital signature and then get sent to the contractor for their digital signature.
3. In the mobile app review mode, text overlaps making it difficult to find the item your are trying to review
4. You should be able to adjust the order that the items appear in the pdf or excel report. The web app allows the item # to be changed but this is not reflected once the report is produced.
5. Rows should automatically adjust in the final report if a remark is expanded upon.
6. If an item is deleted or modified in the mobile app for both dailies and EWO it is not always reflected in the final report.
7. Contract pay items appear to give you the impression that you can change the pay item that was initially selected, but this does not get reflected on the final report.
8. Ideally the create inspection and modify inspection are not on separate interfaces.

"Builterra for Contract Admininstractors"

Comments: Builterra helps to solve the mundane and time-consuming tasks of having to type up and format a perfect looking report. Using the simple forms in the field by inspector to just input the data cuts down on time taken generate reports.

Pros: Ease of the software made inputting data quite simple. Software is very customizable for the type of application we need, and produces reports in any format you need. Pull-down menus are easily expandable and works well when you need to add cells.

Cons: Would like to have seen a pre-determined list of standard inputs, e.g. types of machines or labourers, etc. so that I would not have to program them in for each project.

"Good Product"

Pros: Easy to use, user-friendly and convenient

Cons: Navigating through the available options

"Review"

Comments: I conduct field inspections with the software

Pros: Customer support is great. they always fix issues really fast.

Cons: lots of bugs, not a very user friendly interface

"Builterra"

Comments: Builterra is the future of inspection reporting and makes inspection requirements very easy to log, track and access.

Pros: The software is easy to navigate and very useful for inspection. Being able to attach pictures to a gps location and easily fill out daily inspection reports with drop down menus is ideal.

Cons: The software support between different client's jobs needs to be looked at and undated a bit.

"Efficiency"

Pros: I truly enjoy how easy it is for my project team to seamlessly coordinate data and be most efficient with our time because of this.

Cons: There were no aspects about this software that I truly did not enjoy.

"Builterra Review for sub-Division Construction"

Comments: Makes completing reports from the field much easier and saves a lot of time once you get back to the office as reports can be downloaded and sent out or stored immediately.

Pros: Very helpful for documentation of daily photos and keeping records.

Cons: Errors in software can cause in progress reports to be lost.

"Inspectors need this!"

Comments: I've enjoy using the software overall. Hopefully they improve the UI at some point.

Pros: I like that this has taken us from paper to digital copies of our inspections reports. It also helps me stay incredibly organized.

Cons: It can be complicated to use at first. However once you learn the steps, it's not that bad. The software could also use some sprucing up. The UI isn't visually appealing and lacks gesture support for iOS.

"Builtera user for a year"

Comments: I think it's good overall. The interface is so simple that it's easy to handle

Pros: It's convenient. It's also accessible on your phone. You can upload photos taken from the scene using your cell phone.

Cons: The loading speed is a little slow. And if you repeat what you've written because you don't have auto-save function, it's a bit sad to write the same contents every day.

"Easy for maneuvers for contract items and daily reports"

Comments: Report generation as in inspectors role have become easier. Pay items go through easily and easy operation saves time

Pros: Saves tons of time writing up the inspection reports and once a formula is set pay items are breeze. Loved the comaptibilty and synchronized formatting of reports between different platforms

Cons: Its very frustrating when you expect a report to be generated the way you want and software just stops responding and freezes.

"Best product in the Market"

Comments: overall, i am really satisfied with this software and will continue to use it.

Pros: I really liked how user friendly the software is. Any age or computer skills person can use this software with any problems.

Cons: the software is a bit slow to reload and response.

"Builterra beginner"

Comments: This software is creating a more standardized and consistent working platform across the board. Once everything is input, the whole office will be able to complete documents quicker and more efficiently. There will no longer be any discrepancy between documents.

Pros: I really liked how the software incorporated everything into one. The portion that allows Contract Administrators to post picutres, documents, etc., while on site was very impressive. I also really liked how easy it was to create tender documents.

Cons: When inputting historical documents it was difficult to remember what boxes to check, and how to input the proper data. This was not so much the software not working properly, rather it was an overload of information, and the drop down boxes not always containing the exact items.

"Technical Services Manager, Design and Construction Division"

Pros: Easy of use, reliability and close tie in with the on-line tendering software used by the Region's Purchasing Division.

Cons: Can be confusing, during the configuration and setup.

"Inspector"

Comments: Better than carrying papers with you on site

Pros: Multi platform capibilities. I like when I can use any available device to fill in my info

Cons: Access was not proper. I think admin didn't provide me proper access to evaluate

"Builterra for Contract Administration on municipal construction projects"

Pros: The software supports multiple projects, and geo-tagging of photos.

Cons: Some improvements could be made to the interface to make it easier to download reports.

"Great concept, needs some work."

Pros: The connectivity of data is a great idea. Having every aspect of tendering and inspection linked together in one software, from the actual issuing of tenders through to payment certificates is a great idea. The inspection portion of the software (app) is great, and the geolocation and captioning of photos works well. Having everything cloud-based is helpful to mitigate loss of data and keep all data in a central location.

Cons: The user interface requires improvement to be easily usable and easier to comprehend for users that are not very acquainted with the software. Navigating through the various aspects of creating a tender, and how the connectivity works between tendering, historical costing, inspection, and payment certificates is not intuitive enough for new users to easily comprehend. The many layers of data entry leaves room for data to be entered incorrectly into the wrong location which renders the data meaningless. Users need to spend significant time acquainting themselves with the software and data input and usage methods before it can become useful. Usage of the app (on android) resulted in many errors and bugs which, though were resolved, resulted in time and data loss.

"Good but not great"

Comments: Its a great tool for a database. I have had my permissions extended so the functionality for me is better.

Pros: The software, once I played around with functionality, was fairly easy to use. Changes were made during the beta testing that definitely made it easy to use. Customer service is pretty spot on as there were a few bugs at the beginning that were resolved fairly quickly, within a day or 2.

Cons: The level of authority. If a mistake is made, I used to have to call the moderator to un-review a report in order to edit. A little too muddled in the Menu, could be streamlined to the reports that only I deal with. Could stand to use an autocorrect function or predictive text.

"Builterra rating"

Comments: Awesome, as a construction inspector I love using this fantastic interface.

Pros: Being user friendly and Web based, easy to learn and use

Cons: Nothing dislikeable really. Every thing is easy and clear.

"Efficiency Realized"

Pros: not only the number of steps is reduced by using this technology, but also the time line for these steps are shorten

Cons: shall be customized to produce proper formats

"Great Potentail to save time and money"

Comments: Builterra has some great potential but will need some heavy legwork on the front end of things to set it up for Business use. Multiple clients with multiple standards may cause some issues.

Pros: Adjusts Quantities on the fly. Full package for project estimating.

Cons: Can't utilize easily with ongoing projects.
All or nothing.
Takes awhile to build database.
Need many separate databases for many different clients.

"First user for Builterra"

Comments: so far it is very good tool to use.

Pros: I liked this software because it is very user friendly software. I did not need to send any email regarding how to use this software since, but also it is very powerful tool to store all the project information.

Cons: some information I have to fill duplicate, which consumes some time. I kind of thought it is a bit wasting of time of mine because there is no auto save information system.

"Full featured engineering projects solution."

Comments: The inspection and reporting capabilities are second to none. Top notch support.

Pros: Cloud based database storage. Multi user capability.

Cons: Cost is a bit high. Dependence for report creation is tough but necessary.

"quantity made easy"

Comments: Quantity Tracking
Daily Reporting
Weekly Summaries

Pros: our field staff can readily and easily enter daily quantities on a daily basis with weekly summaries

Cons: week summaries don to sort by project number or item

"A review of Builterra."

Comments: Overall, our experience with Builterra has been positive as far as administering contracts to our subs and contractors. We have enjoyed the fact that the workflows have been streamlined with connection to estimation of cost, preparing bids, Inspectors Daily Reports, and non-conformance issues. Highly recommended for firms dealing in roads/bridges, infrastructure, and civil planning.

Pros: Builterra is a software program of high usability. My highest praise would go toward the ease is geolocating photos and also the captioning process. I like that it is a cloud-based system, so there is little to no chance of losing our information if there is a crash. As far as the application, the inspection aspect is ideal. No bugs and not too much clutter on the platform.

Cons: It would be nice to be able to add digital signatures between us and our subs. The mobile app is good overall, but once in a while the text gets janky and may be hard to decipher. If a comment becomes amended in a readout, it would be perfect if the text would adjust on its own.