Operating Planroom or Construction News services during the industry´s transition from paper based document distribution to digital distribution offers unique challenges and opportunities. Having a diverse range of services and functionality to provide service to those clients who still demand paper based documents to those who demand the latest in digital technology can be difficult and expensive. Maintaining an IT infrastructure to host new digital technologies is expensive. Having the time and resources to develop new services that take advantage of the digital technologies is a challenge. PlanSource offers a single solution that provides you a robust platform to support your existing services more efficiently and to enable your organization to offer new industry leading services.

Online Planroom

PlanSource provides an easy to use full featured online planroom. Users can easily work with the information online, download it, print it in their own offices or order copies to be printed and delivered to them. Integrated HP Instant Print provides those with HP large format printers to easily and inexpensively print drawings in their own office. Automated notification of newly issued addenda ensures everyone has the information as soon as it is available. The integrated document viewer provides easy to use onscreen takeoff and annotation functionality. Users can perform keyword searches through all the documents for the project they are working on or even throughout all the documents on the system. Planroom Administrators will find PlanSource administrative features save them a lot of time and effort.

Project Opportunity Information

PlanSource´s project information management and reporting features are second to none. Extensive search functionality ensures that Users find exactly the information needed to track project opportunities they are interested in. Keyword searches help locate very specific project information such as a product name or description. Users can create and save customized searches and then output a detailed report of that information. Standardized periodic bulletins are easily produced. Automated notifications of new opportunities or documents are generated based upon a list of User defined keywords.

Print Order Management

Even though all plans and specifications are available online there are still times when people want full sized paper copies to work with. PlanSource provides a complete system for Users to place orders that are forwarded for printing. Each print order is then easily produced by the administrator who receives a file containing the exact documents ordered along with a work order detailing the shipping requirements and other special instructions. All the details are available in the system for billing purposes simplifying the process and limiting the potential for errors or missed invoices.