Fieldwire

Vorteile

-Having access to all of the drawings at your fingertips while on site
-Very easy to search for information through drawings as the hyperlinks copy automatically
-easy to compare new drawings to older versions
-easily access all rfi's and linked files

Nachteile

-Program slows down when adding mass amounts of drawings
-Would be helpful to have folders within the Photos section similar to that of the Files section

Vorteile

1. Image Shared Shared Service. The whole team & subs can see image documentation in seconds. Though needs a permanent time stamp feature OPTION & native high resolution feature.
2. Reports are as detailed as you want them to be. I like that reports can be customized (though to a limited extent). You can attach images, files, plans, etc... Though upload file size limit needs to increase from 25mb max.
3. Tasks are an interesting feature still trying to implement into field use. Great that you can track tasks from text messages, emails, images, attachments, etc... Like video option but would like to see that available outside of tasks 7 attach to plan functions on all platforms even PC.

Nachteile

1. No permanent Time stamp on images taken via phone. Time stamp feature is placed outside of image as reference. If image is exported their is no way to distinguish veracity of date & time taken. THIS IS MY NUMBER ONE REQUEST!!!
2. Would like to be able to attach images within Fieldwire to Daily Reports without duplicating images (that's why time stamp on image is needed).
3. Improved search capabilities. Right now searching/filtering through images is limited. Should be able to search by date range of when image taken or file uploaded as well. Their needs to be a better organizational structure for uploading images to fieldwire via app. Users should be able to search through images to attach them to pertinent documentation without creating duplicates or recreating in another format. Images should be searchable and attachable to files without them originally taken within a Fieldwire Form .
4. Attachment upload limited to 25mb. Sometimes project plans exceed 100mb. Should not need to split up submittals/rfi's/files/plans.
5. Fieldwire Upload Image documentation compression software. I use a Android Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5g, images are horribly compressed and sometimes looked pixelated. Yet with my iphone 6 (several years old) images look regular. Should be options for quality of image upload. Panoramic shots should be a feature without destroying them to under a 1mb.
6. Video recording to 8 seconds is limiting. w/ 5g phones making way video quality & length needs overhaul

Vorteile

Accessibility for the whole team, and ease of use on iPad once the project is created

Nachteile

Creating a new project, especially naming all the shots one by one, is atrocious sometimes. We should be able to name the same page numbers in different folders !!

Vorteile

The software makes accessing plans and collaborating with your project team a breeze. Especially in field where managers rely on ipads, the mobile application is easy for quick scaling, take offs, etc. Not to mention the ability to link plans, RFIs, files, and forms to ensure small details and changes aren't missed. The tasks allow for project tracking, documentation, and knocking out your punch list. Not to mention, excellent customer service.

Nachteile

Improve plan layering capability. Exporting plans is a pain. Should be easier to export or print directly from application, rather than sending a web link via email. Could include functions to markup photos taken using the app. That way key features in the photo could be highlighted for future reference or for others on the project team to quickly see.

Vorteile

The Plans tab is very good. The pages are automatically processed upon uploading and sent to everyone for easy access. Another great thing about the plans is the links to detail pages.

Nachteile

I would like to be able to put information about the job such as the address, project manager, Suppliers, etc that would be easily accessible upon opening the project. Also needs to have a contact list where you can have customers in the list and then be able to link them to jobs or different tasks so if someone needs to contact a supplier about a delivery, they can easily see who they need to call.

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Vorteile

The best feature of Fieldwire is the drawing management and ease of access in the field. In addition, tagging issues in the field is seamless.

Nachteile

The most difficult thing to do in Fieldwire is to make handwritten notes or draw sketches on a plan using the pencil/drawing tool. The tool is extremely choppy. I typically make a pdf and import into another software for drawing or taking notes; however, I would prefer to make handwritten notes within the Fieldwire application.

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Vorteile

Fieldwire allows project Managers to easily monitor field work progress within various construction projects and also report on field operations very easily and effective and also on project scheduling Fieldwire is incredible.

Nachteile

Never had much dislike from the software features and the implementation from the initial point was also quite easy.

Vorteile

simply the ease of use. Always with me on site and in my vest. It allows me to work more efficiently and execute tasks on site without going back to the office.

Nachteile

Fieldwire does not have a lot of cons and is tough to think of any. If there were any issues, Fieldwire would correct them and value our teams input

Vorteile

Fieldwire has been very easy to use and helpful for me in the construction management world. It is pretty simple to learn and is not complicated at all. I use it on my iPad and on my Smartphone for the most part. If I have to write an RFI I can take picture and integrate them into the Blue prints to generate something on the spot. It is helpful you can markup any PDF drawings on your iPad or phone as well. I used Fieldwire on my last punch list walkthrough. It convenient to use it as a punch list because you can mark the items on the blue prints, take pictures, locate the problem by room, and assign the subs. Once you issue them you can filter it from any of the categories and print it off to give to the subs. I am unsure on the cost because my construction company pays for it but it sure has been helpful. I had a couple of questions and called their customer service once. Their customer service is friendly and helpful to deal with. If you are in construction management I would give them a try and see if you like it.

Nachteile

I have not been able to find anything that I dislike about this software. Everything has worked as planned.

Vorteile

The ability to have access to all the information supplied to the team, with the ease of access from mobile devices. Its almost better than having the actual paper version! Tasking ability, creating plan sub folders, individual naming of drawings, hyperlink and photo options, its a great tool and has worked great for our team with more that 240 plans uploaded.

Nachteile

Closer zoom would be nice and maybe creating a way to more accurately measure with select points of that which needs measuring. Other than that everything has worked great!

Vorteile

The ability to convert heavy pdf to visualization format on iPad Pro and files organization.

Nachteile

The option of marking files is quite archaic, the tools are very old-fashioned. can improve the marking tools for a faster, more functional and modern style.

Vorteile

1) Integration of photographs and notes with plan positioning.
2) Ease of generating reports.

Nachteile

1) The integration of video should included in the standard version.
2) The french version (translation) is not complete.

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Vorteile

I love the reports and forms that can be made within FW. I also enjoy how the tasks and checklists can be added to our maps and plans. The app is also very user friendly and makes walking job sites a breeze and allows for quick turn around times.

Nachteile

Pulling up reports and making changes to the plans can be cumbersome at times.

Vorteile

-Ease of use
-Quick hyperlinks within drawing packages
-Comments on pins for tasks created help track workflow seamlessly around the office
-Multiple people can be working on/redlining drawings at the same time
-Document control is fast and easy to navigate
-Increases productivity, and has allowed us to capture more errors and dive deeper into our drawing packages

Nachteile

-The fee structure for pro users is very confusing. The billings come in fits and starts, are hard to track, and when people are added/removed from a project, items are credited back. It is hard to track month to month costs as some months only the pro users were on but other months we may have had 4 other users on for a range of one day to 3 weeks and the costs of that get lost in the invoicing.

Vorteile

Photo documentation and daily reports are the easiest and best

Nachteile

I have submitted requests previously regarding taking photos on the plan. Would be nice if you didnt have to click the link, camera then drop on plan. There should be a batch photo placement for taking photos placed on the plan

Vorteile

It was very easy to take photos of certain deficiencies, add tasks and assign to the different trades.

Nachteile

I found that the sync between my phone and my computer took a long time sometimes to connect . When you are in a hurry on the job site it could be frustrating.

Vorteile

Easy to use and share information with other users.

Nachteile

Can't multi drop pins and checklists onto a plan.

Vorteile

Integration very easy. Very userfriendly. It helped out in the field for drawings document control and submittals.

Nachteile

No good for bids or estimating. Software is very expensive when you have more than 5 users. RFIs cannot be created through the software.

Vorteile

Easy to work with. User friendly. Great interface

Nachteile

Not easy to create report. The functionality of them are only one way.
The filter take forever to load

Vorteile

Fieldwire is great for swiping through plans, marking up drawings, collaborating with your field staff and even doing quick takeoffs.

Nachteile

Fieldwire’s automatic sheet naming feature is a little buggy but with a little tweaking everything will look great.

Vorteile

It's so simple to use and an easy tool to use to train how to read blueprints

Nachteile

Nothing at all it's to easy to use to dislike

Vorteile

User friendly, fairly easy to learn. Excellent customer service. Very responsive to questions and concerns.

Nachteile

Some pushback from field personnel who are afraid to use the program. They feel it is too difficult which it is not.

Vorteile

Being able to document field conditions.

Nachteile

Menu tools a little difficult to follow.

Vorteile

Pros for Fieldwire include:
1. Fantastic Task organization and prioritizing such tasks.
2. Great calendar view of task start and end dates.
3. Customizable categories for tasks as well as being able to insert a task directly to the blueprint uploaded.

Nachteile

Cons for Fieldwire include:
1. No simple way of sending someone a "calendar view" of tasks.
2. No pre setup forms such as "Change Orders" or "Lists" (YET...its on the way)
3. Great report system but no report that is easy enough for your standard home owner / customer to understand.

Vorteile

For an estimator, the document "Compare" feature is the most important. It allows me to capture all of the changes that the design team makes, even if they "forget" to mention it in their write-up.

Nachteile

Adjusting the scale and adjusting the drawing to overlay it correctly when a consultant offers only a small detail, and doesn't re-issue a complete drawing can be somewhat cumbersome.

Vorteile

Facil de usar y configurar, podemos implementarlo y usar nuestros formularios sin problemas

Nachteile

nada , me parece una app muy completa , hasta puedes ver los 3D

Vorteile

I use this as an architect as a supplemental tool to create and issue field reports and tract deficient work that is discovered over the course of construction. The mobile interface is great and fairly intuitive. The customizable reports that can be issued to my team and the contractor's team are easy to read and you can input any type of information you can think of. Punch list creation and distribution is instantaneous, especially if the GC and subcontractors are using the software as well.

Nachteile

This is yet another supplemental tool to be used in addition to project management software such as Newforma, ProCore, etc. Over the past 20 years I have yet to find the one ring to rule them all, as some software applications thrive with certain tasks and fall well short in others. Currently this software is limited for my use for field reports and punch lists.

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Vorteile

The ease of use, flipping through drawing sets, and accessibility of information in the field. Ability to create, assign, and monitor tasks is great, especially during the punch list phase. Printing of reports to PDF for distribution is helpful as well.

Nachteile

More powerful drawing markup tools. Ability to sort photos into albums or folders for easier / faster review. Currently, the ability to measure on the plans is really rough; it would be nice to be able to snap to vector linework contained within the PDF plans that are uploaded per project. I know this isn't really the point of Fieldwire, but it would be nice to be able to print a sheet from the platform instead of having to download it. The ability to export master task lists that have collated sub-task lists as a single report.

Vorteile

Very good resource for tracking field production for completion for projects in a timely matter in order to keep clients happy.

Nachteile

The price for multiple accounts is starting to make me think about finding another resource. Getting a little expensive.

Vorteile

Fieldwire provides project documentation and tracking at our staff's fingertips. The ability to link associated drawings and details to floor plans saves a huge amount of time every day.

Project photos, markups and as constructed information as available to all team members at any time at any location on the project.

This software has streamlined processes beyond our expectations.

Nachteile

Some documents are a little slow to load up at times. I presume this is because of the local connection speed or the device we use to view the files.

Vorteile

Simple and easy to use, plans can be scrolled and zoomed in/out quickly, easily marked up, or scaled for distance estimates. Project pictures are easy to take and view.

Nachteile

No ability to sort your plan pages is very inconvenient, especially for larger projects, where It can take hours of going through and slowly renaming every page to start with 001 and up to be able to arrange the pages in any meaningful way, and even then it will be difficult for specific trades, for example if someone only wanted to see E sheets.
Fieldwire also has no text search function, which is another basic feature of any other software I've used. These basic features seem like they have been overlooked by development in favor of adding additional payment tiers.

Vorteile

The drawing management software is superb. No more hunting around the computer or desk for the latest version. Our entire team in the office and out on the sites has the correct documents at their fingertips

I have a full document folder and drawings accessible on my phone in 3 clicks and its always up to date

There is the option to load up single page drawings or multi page documents

Their forms tab is a great way to ensure paperwork such as check sheets. inspections etc are completed in a visible way

Nachteile

It can be a little tricky getting used to how to name drawings so they a uploaded as a new revision rather than a new drawing but its nothing you cant get past

Vorteile

I really dont have information about IT stuff, but this software is reachable from every device and everywhere very fast. That is important. We are working in a 50FL tower which has no signal in its core, but anyways, when the tablet reaches a signal, all things done offline is sychronized for everybody at that sec. Which saves a lot of time and builds confidence

Nachteile

Improvements could be made by user, like open softwares, the menus may become much more editable.

Vorteile

This software keeps us organized and opens the communication between the office and the field.

Nachteile

Wish you could copy and paste templates and forms after a company has been set up.

Vorteile

I love the precision picture taking, "on the spot" notifications for every member when changes to projects are made, easy note-taking on top of plans and task managing.

Nachteile

Simply that I haven't had the time to go through it all already! Too much work!

Vorteile

With over 300 roofs currently this program allows me to follow the status of all of them. Plus the ability to have my foreman's enter and update remotely enables to office to have a live updated on our current projects.

Nachteile

I didn't like not being about to run a report on all my projects vs only being able to run a report on task.
Also I want to be able to rename the work task to HOUSES. I also don't like that you can move your side bar. Ex.... the list is Plans, Task, Photos, Form, Files, People. You can't adjust the order. Also with you are submitting a photo. You have to either take a photo or use one previously uploaded. You can't use a photo from your phone's storage and upload immediately.

Vorteile

The ease of learning and using fieldwire. Its crucial for us to have a simple system that can perform at a high level to allow us to track and present our work. The reporting aspect of fieldwire is brilliant too as it allows us to present data and information to our clients in a organised and easy to follow way.

Nachteile

The only downside would be if we could customise it a bit more. We use man power & cost to track all sorts of things such as the size of a repair or the quantity of steel used. If we would be able to change the title of these it would be a massive help especially to those new to the projects, with helping their understanding of how our systems work.

Vorteile

Fieldwire est un produit facile à prendre en main, intuitif et adapté à notre métier du second œuvre du bâtiment. Il nous fait gagner un temps précieux dans la gestion des documents, la communication avec le chantier et le contrôle qualité.

Nachteile

Fieldwire est très ouvert et adapté au plus grand nombre. La contre partie est que l'on ne peut contraindre l'utilisateur (formaliser des noms de dossier, forcer à remplir certaines options,...)
Il me manque également la possibilité de suivre facilement les avancements de pose en pouvant extraire le "surlignage" des réseaux.

Vorteile

Easy to use, awesome interface and a awesome tool to track the progress and billing on any job site.

Nachteile

Sometimes it’s hard to touch or move objects around when page is to crowded and it takes little than extra time to upload new adding so into print for other to see.

Vorteile

Plan markups and ability to scale/measure plans

Nachteile

Some features are/aren't available depending on apple/android. Some aspects are extremely user friendly, others aren't.

Vorteile

The overall ease of use of this product for field staff and cost was the deciding factor.

Nachteile

No take off feature available to integrate with excel spreadsheets.

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Vorteile

Ease to access information for field workers when working in areas with no reception or outside working hours. Manages a mass amount of project documentation while working remotely and outside office servers.

Nachteile

Costing and tracking licenses are a bit tricky.
Transferring Form Templates from job-to-job would be great versus recreating them.

Vorteile

The task features. Being able to assign task and track them.

Nachteile

Not really anything I don't like. Maybe would add edit features on pictures.

Vorteile

Friendly user , easy to follow and costumer service

Nachteile

Need to continue the development , but nothing except that

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Vorteile

The logical application makes training staff easy and the reporting function for exports make reviewing work much faster

Nachteile

Form design could be more self editing so you can re make forms to fit into current program

Vorteile

I like how easy it is to upload plans, Mark plans, take pictures and share with everyone. It makes doing punch work easier and more time effective

Nachteile

I use this program every work day and it always drains my iPad battery. I don’t know if it’s a software issue or an equipment issue.

Vorteile

Easy to use once you learn the software. It makes you look professional and organized while in meetings, on the job site, etc.

Nachteile

There needs to be a way to edit or mark sheets within the "file" portion of the software.

Vorteile

The ease of use and ability to keep up with everything. I love having the ability to keep up with multiple sites without having to visit them. Every crew is at my fingertips.

Nachteile

I have not really had any issues. Maybe a small glitch very seldomly but resolved quickly. This is a must-have for any job site big or small.

Vorteile

The automatic labeling of drawings, and creating of hyperlinks between sheets

Nachteile

Errors in reading sheet titles for uploaded drawing sets