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New Online Construction Planning Service Is Launched08-08-16 | News

New Online Construction Planning
Service Is Launched
Helps Contractors Find Projects - Free Version Available

**Dodge PlanRoom** is designed to support construction-specific workflows. For instance, interested parties can evaluate potential projects by quickly reviewing linked plans, sections and elevations.

Dodge Data & Analytics has recently released Dodge PlanRoom, an online service for contractors and subcontractors to store, manage, and share plans, specifications, and other construction documentation.

If needed, the service can be integrated with the Dodge Global Network, the largest, most comprehensive source of information on construction projects in North America. This allows contractors to quickly search and view projects to find the ones most suitable for them. Users can also add their own projects or participate in private projects they are invited to by owners and other contractors.

"We're on a mission to unlock the value in our data for all industry participants," states Mike Petrullo, CEO of Dodge Data & Analytics. "PlanRoom is a great example of this by making Dodge data seamlessly available for contractors and trades to find and win new work, without the need for expensive, complicated packages."

By helping to make relevant project documentation available in a single, secure repository, PlanRoom allows the whole project team – general contractors, subcontractors and trades, manufacturers, distributors and service providers – to collaborate throughout the entire project lifecycle, to avoid the headaches and delays caused by working with out-of-date information, and to track history and pinpoint plan changes when necessary.

"Viewing project information and documents with Dodge PlanRoom is easier and faster than any other product we have used," says Matthew J. Brennan, CEO, Loveland Excavating and Paving Inc., in Fairfield, Ohio.

PlanRoom is available in multiple tiers, all of which offer access to unlimited users on a project. The basic level is available free and comes with storage of up to five projects at a time. Subsequent tiers offer increased storage for low monthly fees.

For more information on PlanRoom and to sign up, visit https://www.construction.com/dodge/planroom.asp.