Let Project Express Rescue Your In-Box

For many estimators, the days of working with full-size plans and a single digitizer are a thing of the past. Today, they no longer check for faxes from subcontractors or distribute multiple sets of printed plans to complete a final bid. Instead of taking weeks to complete a bid, they can now do it in […]

Red-Hot Construction Market Demands Right Tech Tools

If contractors thought 2018 was a record-setting year for the construction industry, they should probably hold on tight for 2019. The latest statistics show that construction is heating up fast as employment hit an 11-year peak in January 2019 with 7.5 million employed—the highest since 2008. So far, fears of a slowdown have yet to […]

Transitioning from Pre-Civil War Paper Plans to the Digital Age

A History of the Blueprint ​Blueprints were invented a generation before the Civil War by John Herschel, a chemist, astronomer, and photographer, in 1842. Herschel developed the cyanotype process that started with a drawing on semi-transparent paper, weighted down on top of a sheet of paper. The paper was coated with a photosensitive chemical mixture […]