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Picture this: It's Egypt, 2500 BC, and you're working on a construction site building some pyramids. Then you hear that the Pharaoh wants to receive updates on the project's pro...

Have you ever tried to get your superintendents to turn in their daily reports through construction management software only to find that they go back to their trusty pen and pa...

We all have that one thing in life that makes us cringe at the very sound of its name. Whether it be nails on a chalkboard, the texture of getting some sand when you bite into s...

We've been busy making improvements to the Raken experience, and we're proud to show you two of our latest: budgeted hours and mobile galleries. Users will find these new enhanc...

Construction data is experiencing a boom recently. We're not talking about construction statistics like how much money the U.S. construction industry made or spent in the last f...

When small problems compile, they can quickly turn into something much bigger. Compiled construction issues—whether they are in your control or not—turn into problems that can p...

Collecting construction time cards from a jobsite can be a tedious and frustrating process. Everyone has their own way of setting up time sheets, entering data into those sheets...

Masonry's biggest event of the year, World of Concrete, took over the Las Vegas Convention Center January 22-25th. Raken was right there on the floor along with 1,500 other con...

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...