Maximize Productivity and Collaboration

Flexible work breakdown structures empower individual estimators and team leaders to organize projects in the way that allows them to work most efficiently. Label folders by floor or room type and include sub-folders for components like plumbing and electric — the power is yours. This flexibility not only allows you to organize projects in a way that maximizes productivity, it visualizes the cost impact of every decision, allowing you to make the best use of your budget.

The most productive estimating teams are often the most collaborative estimating teams. Shared organizational folders in RSMeans Data Online provide the ideal mechanism for sharing work tasks across the team. This essentially makes the estimate the property of the team, allowing team members to pick up where others leave off. These shared structures help teams minimize rework and maximize output.

In any cloud-based work environment, security is a top priority. Group-level permissions provide an enterprise-wide method for restricting user visibility and access to estimates to ensure organizational control. Applying group-level permissions to the shared organizational folders ensures that only those who need access, have access, while protecting potentially sensitive information. Team leaders can be in a group that has access to all folders, while team members may be restricted to seeing only the work germane to them.