Category: Subcontractors

An academic at the UK’s Northumbria University in Newcastle’s Department of Architecture and the Built Environment, has built a mathematical model for allocating labor that her research confirms can help contractors and construction companies save their projects time and money. The model, part of a software program, uses the skills and personalities of individual laborers proposed for, or working on, a construction project site, coupled with existing site conditions and the overall progress of the work, to optimize labor crew configurations.

San Diego-based eSUB Construction Software, which recently announced a $5M Series A round, builds a variety of cloud-based project management apps that help subs track and connect to jobs in the field, manage schedules, and get paid faster.

TradeTapp’s algorithms pull subcontractor data into an interactive, web-based collection module and analyze metrics that include backlog position, work history, average project size, and how the sub has fared with staying on time and on budget.