RAKEN CONSTRUCTION BLOG

We are proud to announce our latest improvement to Raken Time Cards, tracking hours by start/end times! This has been a widely requested feature for companies or projects that r...

If you're a construction executive or owner, superintendent, foreman, or project manager you're probably familiar with how difficult adopting construction software is when it co...

When it comes to reporting on a construction site, curveballs are constantly thrown when collecting daily reports from subcontractors. Different firms have different ways of doi...

As a subcontractor, let's say your crew arrives on site and it turns out that you were blocked from doing a critical part of your job: for example, someone forgot to shut off th...

2018 has been an incredible year for Raken. While our customers have been busy working on projects, checking off tasks and approving thousands of reports every day, we have been...

Let's say you're a project manager for a larger general contractor in charge of 3-4 projects. Or perhaps you're a brand new GC starting a complicated new project. Either situat...

As 2018 comes to an end, we want to quickly look back and remember a few of our favorite blogs for 2018. We selected the blogs that we feel are worth a second read because they ...

How to Make Construction Task Management Simple Keeping up with every task that needs to be done on a construction jobsite on a daily basis is a headache in itself, especially ...

Remember that picture of Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat where he is juggling about ten different items while balancing on a ball? Well often times, that animated fiction is a constr...

At Raken, we introduce new updates, features, improvements, and expansions to the software every month. As the year comes to a close we'd like to take some time and go over the ...

With the new year just around the corner, there's probably a lot of planning going on in the office: how many new hires to take on, which projects to bid on, and where to invest...

Usually, lists of 2019 construction trends contain extremely broad topics that, frankly, have been "trends" in the construction industry for years now. That's why we wrote a new...