RAKEN CONSTRUCTION BLOG

Last week, we talked about where the data for construction business intelligence comes from. We landed on the idea that it naturally comes from the construction field- the only ...

Construction companies often get sued over delay claims, and weather is one of the most common causes of those delays. Severe weather events can also increase costs and endanger...

Business intelligence matters for construction firms, and you need to be doing it. We're here to teach you how. Last week, we introduced the idea of business intelligence for c...

Construction Growth in 2017 The Market Research Hub (or MRH) released their latest figures for the worldwide growth of the construction industry. According to that source, "T...

Let's face it- faulty on-site reporting is messing up your whole system. In 2010, Barbara Jackson literally wrote the book on construction management. Over her many years of ex...

To do business intelligence the right way, you need to be collecting data. The problem is that in this case you are collecting data from the job site and construction field. We’...

Cookie cutter daily reporting tools for construction just don't work. They don't work because they make one terrible assumption: that every single project is the same. Whether i...

It would have been easy to just congratulate ourselves. After we were named the #1 field reporting tool by the AGC we could have sat down and let our app do its thing. But after...

When it comes to construction safety and project management, the best time to act is as soon as something happens – not days after. Raken’s daily reporting app offers real-time ...

The state of the construction industry labor pool means project managers are often faced with juggling multiple projects with smaller crews. Raken, the #1 Daily Reporting Softwa...

Construction contractors have a thousand items to track and reports to create on a daily basis. Manpower reports are especially frustrating and time-consuming because they requi...

The overall construction market has largely recovered from the Great Recession of the last decade, but that doesn’t mean competition has faded. If you run a construction company...