The Budget vs. Planned Cost Widget, located in each project in Bridgit Bench, helps to better understand how your staffing plan compares to your budgeted labor costs. The widget pulls cost rates at an individual level, or uses default cost rates (in your settings), to ensure the widget displays accurate cost information that updates in real time if changes are made to the staffing plan.
Using your workforce data to improve project bidding
Winning bids at a high rate is one of the lifelines to maintaining a construction company. While this is a simple concept, being successful at it requires a general contractor capable of juggling a myriad of variables, some of them completely out of their control.
Smart Suggestions for project teams
Bridgit Bench arms you with Smart Suggestions for every project role. When allocating someone to an unfilled role in Bench, Smart Suggestions will consider titles and project histories to give you a shortlist of available team members to choose from.
17 Essential construction industry trends to watch
Here are some major construction industry trends to keep an eye on this year and beyond.
Spring ’23 releases in Bridgit Bench
Bridgit Bench adds a new Preconstruction Module for precon people planning and has made Project Broadcasts available from the Bench Mobile Application.
Bridgit launches new functionality to support specialty and self-performing contractors
Bridgit launches functionality to help specialty and self-performing contractors manage their people more effectively Contractors can allocate, track, and forecast their field and craft workforce and consolidate their entire workforce strategy into a single tool TORONTO, ONTARIO (June 27, 2023) — Bridgit, the leader in construction workforce planning technology, today announced the launch of its
50 Largest general contractors in the United States in 2023
In America’s massive and highly-competitive construction industry, a few companies have managed to become dominant. Here are the 50 largest general contractors in the country.
The Precon Module | Bridgit Bench
TL: DR – Bridgit Bench is the first and only workforce planning platform to offer tools built specifically for planning preconstruction teams and tasks. Get your precon team out of spreadsheets and give them flexible task tracking and better visibility into the projects their people are working on, how they’re progressing, and how well their
5 benefits of strategic workforce planning meetings in construction
Here is what you need to know about why workforce planning is important, why you should book meetings planned around it, its goals, and its benefits.
Preconstruction meetings agenda and questions: All you need to know
With preconstruction being the foundation of a construction project’s success, properly executing meetings to prepare for building is crucial. Without meetings for decision-making and conflict resolution, projects are much more likely to encounter difficulties mid-way. In other words, preconstruction meetings are key to project success, and thus, it’s important to carry them out accordingly. Having