Construction scheduling software could be described as the timekeeper of today’s construction project. Cloud-based and synchronously viewable by all permitted project workers, Procore’s construction project scheduling software keeps the project on track in a real-time, shared scheduling ecosystem.

While site managers and other stakeholders may use construction project scheduling software as a lookahead to track both current and planned objectives on the project, collaborators count on the currency of an up-to-the-minute project program to tell them what day(s) they need to be on the worksite and what the specifically assigned tasks are for the given workday.

Is construction planning and scheduling software an improvement over simply posting the hardcopy program in the worksite trailer or other common area? Yes. The digital nature of the construction scheduling software means the detailed project program is accessible in real time to all users wherever they are. It also means the team will always be able to view the latest, most up-to-date synchronised program.

Program updates happen automatically in real time so that users never have to worry about tracking program revisions or wonder if they are seeing the most recent program iteration. The Procore platform proffers a single source of truth in every instance.

Construction planning and scheduling software allows the user to filter the project program by task, specialty contractor or any number of other criteria, such as ‘plumbing contractor’ or ‘framing’. Users can access the app on any smart device or connected location. The user can search the relevant text through an extensive, complex project program. The user can easily get the construction program information they need, when they need it.

It’s a fact: Gantt charts aren’t for everybody. What good is a constantly updated, commonly available project program if the info it presents has to be deciphered to be understood? The Procore Program tool also offers a familiar calendar view by day, week or month. In calendar view, project tasks are presented as individual bars that display the task name, the team member(s) assigned to that task and the start and finish dates. Each task on the calendar has a clickable link that allows you to edit and customise the task in several ways to make it even more straightforward. Users can choose to change the task start date or finish date, or the percentage completed for each task.