Builterra Reviews

The easy way to write and submit the inspection report, payment certificates, estimate and most of the contract administration work are breeze to do

Absolutely nothing that I don't like about the product. Though there can be some improvement in testing side before the product rolls out to avoid any miscalculation in projects

I really liked how user friendly the software is. Any age or computer skills person can use this software with any problems.

the software is a bit slow to reload and response.

I like that the program takes the information that is provided the user and prepare a uniform report and the format matches the your colleagues.

Depending on the platform being used when mobile (Android or ios) the drop down and search options could be improved.

Gives me more time to inspect instead of writing reports and I can draw and edit pictures. I can easily download pictures and reports without having to save them on my computer.

Not everything I would like to use is on it yet.

The software is great easy to use I like the mobile app makes my tracking of the day-to-day operations useful

I do not like how when you sync data on your mobile app and you’ve done work on your desktop it doesn’t match up, also importing of equipment labour and materials on the mobile app doesn’t give you the full list that it does on the desktop

Ease of use. Functionality. I can view the reports immediately after my inspectors have completed them.

uploading photos and documents can take some time. Permissions on reports could be adjusted. Better (more reliable) notification structure could help.

PQR financial statement linked to diaries is a nice feature
It's nice to generate a mid month payment for budget purposes.

Making change orders are not easy as there are many steps. Simplifying this would be great

The best feature is the field data is easily viewed in office.

The integration gets better and better. Some features like our truck tracking is difficult to manage (aside from the same day data) in the field. Office/browser side works great

The fact that most of the items are picked up app automatically such as location, weather and edits the placement of the photos.

Every time you write a activity or observation you have to hit the submit button and to edit it you need to go to review mode. It would be easier to add numbers on table for construction members and equipment used rather than selecting once by one. When you take a photo some times it gets deleted and you will have to retake it. When manually a photo is added it adds a default stamp which is incorrect. Contractor has to be written every time you edit the report. When publishing in pfd for example if you have tree photos the stamp of the photo will show on the next page. Adobe files are very heavy when directly publish as pdf. No weekly set up

being user-friendly, easy to input all data

Probably defining templates could be better introduced to the platform

Using Builterra on our tablets and phones on site was very useful for writing speedy inspections. We mainly used Builterra on our mobiles for taking pictures and tracking locations.

Sometimes WORD reports and PDFs wouldn't get generated properly, but after contacting Builterra staff it would be resolved promptly.

User friendly and well organized software

Adding photos more than one at a a time would be a good feature for desktop version

All reports are made for you, with the exception of the specific data input for the application.

Daily input of every piece of equipment and labour on each daily report.
Templates are not easy to make and use.

The concept of how easy it can make inspections.

when I cant send emails of my reports to clients.

It has all the functionality needed to effectively perform contract administration and inspection services.

The setup process has been difficult. Our projects don't have all the correct details, and inspectors do not have a trust level with the software.

Photo uploads and captions.
Generate word and PDF report

The application is both friendly and not friendly user. The purpose of the using such a software is to eliminate time spending on reports. With Builterra, to bring changes to t report, you have to log in to your computer to bring those changes.
A user should have more control using this software. For example, I need to change the title of the report as per client’s requirements, I cannot do it in software itself- I have to sign in to Builterra portal, download the word/PDF document and then bring those changes.

The complete project team was capable of reviewing ongoing site planning , construction and administration tools

Very time consuming to upload photo and inspection reports (to many screens)

It’s a great platform that can shape a system and culture for organizations that don’t have one. I would recommend to public sector or larger groups that can manage one platform or need a culture change from pen and paper

Frustration of being forced into it by public sector work. We work in support to a variety of different platforms ie; onware, field wire, procore and our own cloud system

It’s to rigid for us to use on all projects, so we need something more flexible to work within the other systems.

Customer support is great. they always fix issues really fast.

lots of bugs, not a very user friendly interface

Easy to use, quick to introduce data, and time saving when some information is already recorded without any input.

Photos taken with the application are not saved in my devices so double photos to be taken when keeping a daily record of activities

The product is easy to use. Once you know how to access the project, you can easily drag and drop items into the entire tender document to start compiling the entire project into a cost estimate document. I also like that it can populate unit costs from past projects (although some are lower costs than we would expect but those can be bumped up easily.).

What I don't like currently in the menus is the "Dummy Items" - creating custom items is a little bit of a hassle. These dummy items are placed randomly throughout different drop down menus and it is very confusing. Maybe having the first line item as a dummy item with no item code would be easier to manage and navigate. You can check to see if the item code inputted already belongs to a different item and if it does, prompt the user to use a different code for the dummy items.

To manipulate data and to extract what is required

To add more details about design quantities per project street as to deal with overrun at the time of operations

The product is very easy to use as all the information you need is in one spot. It's good for tracking monthly work progress.

At first, there are quite a few things to learn but once you get the hang of using Builterra, it's very easy.