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Jeff Lydon

Don’t Let an Outage Manage You: The New Construction Viz Outage Request App

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Keeping your entire team in the loop when planning an outage can be challenging. Effectively managing an outage event involves many more steps and considerations than just placing an activity into the master schedule to identify an outage. You must consider documentation needs and the formal approvals required to manage the event effectively.

Construction Viz Outrage Request form app

We designed the Construction Viz System Outage Request form app to capture as much information as possible to prevent an outage from negatively impacting the overall project schedule. The form app captures outage information such as start and end times, location, systems affected, justification, and work groups required to plan the outage and minimize downtime.

In addition to capturing outage-specific information, users can identify assets impacted, relate drawings, add document attachments, upload images, add links, route for review and approval, issue email notifications, and capture revisions. Also, because all Construction Viz apps are deployable into your Microsoft 365 tenant, you can add your custom Power Automate workflows. For example, you could use Power Automate to automatically update team members on changes, add Power BI dashboards and reports, and update Microsoft Teams with workflow progress.

With the Construction Viz Outage Request form app, you will be better prepared to plan and manage outages while keeping your team members in the know.

Visit the apps section of ConstrictionViz.com to learn more about our entire lineup of apps for construction project management. Schedule a free one-hour consultation here to get more information about Construction Viz or how we can help with Microsoft 365 services.

Powerful and Smart Permit Management: The New Construction Viz Permit App

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Effective permit management is one of the biggest challenges I have seen organizations struggle with during my years working on construction projects. Often, effective permit management determines whether a team completes a project on time.

Managing permits should be pretty simple: add the permit need date and issue date to a schedule, and off you go. Unfortunately, permits have a life of their own and, if not carefully managed, can have substantial downstream impacts.

The above is why our latest app for Construction Viz will be invaluable to construction project managers. Read on to learn more.

Introducing the new Construction Viz Permit App for Microsoft 365

With the Construction Viz Permit App, we wanted to focus on four areas of permits management:

  1. Planning – You can create a placeholder form for each permit type required on a project. These placeholder forms capture the needed date of when that permit must be issued so as not to affect the schedule.
  2. Filing and Issued Dates – Once you file a permit, it can get lost in the shuffle and requires constant follow-up. With the Permit app’s grid view you can filter by status, see when the permit was filed, and if it has been issued yet.
  3. Expiration Dates – Expiring permits can be a significant issue on larger long-duration projects with many permits. The Permit app lets users filter and sort the permit grid view by expiration date so that you can re-submit a permit that is due to expire in a timely manner.
  4. Notifications – Team members need to be notified as soon as possible if permit need dates are not going to be met or when a permit will expire. We’ve included our notification email component in the Permit app so that at any point in time, you can easily email all of your stakeholders with an update. Also, we can include a Power Automate workflow that checks all permit need dates in advance and makes the owner aware of the due dates and expiration dates in email and Microsoft Teams.

To extend the capabilities even further, we’ve also included, by default, the ability to assign a WBS, add links specifications, connect to the Drawings app, create permit revisions, and even add a formal review process to ensure permits are dispositioned in a timely manner. We tried to cover all bases with the new Permit app, so you can hit the ground running.

Find out more about the new Permit app or any of our other construction apps for Microsoft 365 by visiting https://constructionviz.com/apps/  or by requesting a demo here.