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Construction of a second cruise ship berth at Icy Strait Point in Hoonah, Alaska, finished seven months early with thorough planning, innovation, and technology – earning Turnagain Marine Construction multiple awards, including the Viewpoint Most Challenging Project Award for 2020.

CFO Andrew Bates stepped up to run business systems along with finance to help take the business to the next level. "The role of a CFO can be one of change agent."

Making big machines roll: Trimble connects the real world to the digital world and makes the wheels go round. Trimble’s fiscal third-quarter report for 2020 reveals a company that’s managing a transition to subscription and building new business in several segments. The pandemic did not come at an ideal time for the company and the company has responded by taking a pass on forecasts.

As a specialty contractor, maintaining collaborative and fruitful working relationships with general or lead contractors is critical for success. Strong partnerships build trust, help ensure work is done more efficiently and lead to winning more bids in the future.

Viewpoint’s Business Continuity Toolkit (registration required) helps contractors prepare their businesses for unexpected disruptions. It covers finding a path forward, making changes and learning from others.

The world has become largely digitized over the past few years, and more reliant on technology than ever. In 2018, Forbes wrote that humans created 2.5 quintillion bytes (2.5M Terabytes) of data every day, and 90% of the world’s entire data was created within just the previous two to three years. That same year, Cisco noted in a report that 94% of all workloads would be run in some form of cloud environment by 2021.

Moving to the cloud enables a connected construction operation with a fluid flow of data and collaborative communication between the field, office and project teams.

Over the past few years, Viewpoint has honored several of its client companies that have overcome significant project challenges, showcased innovative building or operational practices, leveraged modern technologies to create success stories and more. Each year, dozens of companies submit their own stories for consideration for the Viewpoint Construction Awards.

In this GroundBreakers episode, Anne Hunt, director of data and analytics at Viewpoint, shares the features and benefits of cloud-based project management software for construction companies of all sizes, along with tips to help you effectively manage the data generated to ensure you get maximum ROI from these programs.

For time and materials (T&M) contractors in the oil and gas pipeline industry, accurately capturing and controlling data in the field that informs billing process is paramount to success. Yet, many industry professionals struggle with a noticeable disconnect between the jobsite and the back office, especially when it comes to collecting and processing data.