Michel Richer

How Balfour Beatty US is improving workforce planning efficiency and providing better clarity with Bridgit Bench

Balfour Beatty Project

Balfour Beatty is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients. The company’s US Buildings Texas team specializes in healthcare, corporate office, hospitality, multi-family, aviation, K-12 and interiors.

Read More →

What is construction workforce planning?

Green Bridgit logo on cloud bacground

Workforce planning is a key element to any business, but yet many people don’t even know what it is! If you don’t know what strategic workforce planning is and, therefore, aren’t using it in your business – you are seriously missing out. In a world where profit and efficiency are critical to a construction company, you obviously want to do everything you can to maximize these and grow your business in the future.

Read More →

Bridgit Bench resource planning tool announces integration with Procore to optimize digital workforce planning for construction

Bridgit and Procore logos

Procore’s integration with Bridgit Bench allows users to import projects into a single, easy-to-use interface.   TORONTO, March 9, 2020 – Bridgit, a construction software company, announced its integration with Procore, a provider of construction management software. This integration allows users to import projects from their Procore account directly into the Bridgit Bench resource planning

Read More →

The Construction Record Podcast: ConExpo Special with Procore’s Kris Lengieza and Bridgit’s Mallorie Brodie

Listen now The Construction Record Podcast is covering ConExpo, North America’s biggest construction conference from March 10 to March 14. Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce national managing editor Vince Versace and digital media editor Warren Frey are your boots on the ground for news and networking at the intersection of building, labour, soft

Read More →

How GE Johnson uses Bridgit Bench to improve operational efficiency and simplify its workforce planning process

GE Johnson Project

Bridgit Bench has helped GE Johnson Construction Company be more efficient with workforce management and communicate better around resource planning. For a company that values relationship building and sustainable growth, these traits are extremely important. So, the new resource management tool is helping GE Johnson accomplish its goals both internally and externally.

Read More →

What is construction workforce management?

Workforce management

Workforce management is a complex aspect of human resources that works to ensure that a company has the necessary team members doing the right things at the right time. The main point of workforce management is to increase the productivity and efficiency of your employees and ensure that they aren’t wasting time on time-consuming tasks that can be automated or streamlined.

Read More →

20 Canadian entrepreneurs to watch in 2020

20 Canadian entrepreneurs to watch in 2020

View article The most interesting entrepreneurs all have one thing in common: vision. The founders, CEOs, scientists and senior leaders who made this year’s list represent some of the country’s most brilliant minds. And they are creating innovative products and services that are changing the way we live, learn, move, save and even sleep —

Read More →

Construction and the spreadsheet epidemic

Woman working on laptop

Let’s face it, blog posts about spreadsheets are about as engaging to read as spreadsheets are fun to use, but there’s clearly a movement happening right now with construction technology and software solutions looking to pull the industry out of static spreadsheet systems like Microsoft Excel or Lotus 1 2 3 for resource and workforce planning. The reason for that is very simple.

Read More →