Exciting news! Milwaukee Tool has officially joined the Construction Progress Coalition (CPC). Several members of the ONE-KEY™ team had the privilege of joining CPC to represent the company and participate in CPC’s industry-shaping programs.
At Milwaukee Tool, we’re committed to delivering disruptive innovation that empowers tradespeople. We work alongside tradespeople to understand their pain points, refining our revolutionary power tools to provide unmatched durability, performance, and productivity gains through our connected systems and the One-Key app; the CPC’s commitment to industry-wide collaboration and solving shared pains is therefore perfectly aligned with our company goals at Milwaukee Tool and platform goals with the One-Key app.
There’s long been a big data problem in construction. Disparate data sources, collected at various stages of a project with no standardization, have created silos capable of derailing progress or leading to expensive rework. What’s more, as software providers have jumped into action to solve various aspects of construction–from design to inventory logistics—additional data sources are created.
How construction companies leverage project data and synchronize it in a meaningful way that can be used cross-functionally is an industry problem we’re trying to solve every day.
The Construction Progress Coalition (CPC) is a professional organization “building a broad coalition of construction supply chain stakeholders united around the shared pains we all face when miscommunication leads to misuse, mistakes, lost profits, and lost communication.”
Broadly, the goal of the CPC is to bring together contractors, service providers, and construction technologists to automate shared problems, known as “shared pains,” to produce “shared gains.”
Through collaboration with industry stakeholders, the CPC pledges to “Iterate, fail fast, and learn faster to scale the digital transformation of design and construction.”
The AEC Integration Summit (i.e., “iSummit) took place in February, a 2-day event in Denver, Colorado where cross-functional groups, representative of industry stakeholders, come together and determine how to solve issues and inefficiencies faced industry-wide through a common data exchange (CDX).
The CPC brings together architects, technologists, general contractors and trade contractors, project owners, as well as service providers in conversation about industry problem-solving that is agnostic of selling products. That is to say, we don’t wear our sales hats and instead come together to solve issues in broad terms.
Topics discussed include: RFIs, MEP system components, the payapp process, reality capture, trade contractor prequalification.
Ultimately, the goal of the iSummit is to iterate and define a future state where processes (RFIs, handoffs, etc.) can be standardized and improved through connected systems.
CPC approach:
Milwaukee Tool, as both a software developer and hardware manufacturer, is committed to joining the conversation at the CPC, as it affords us the opportunity to understand real pain points and big issues that need to be solved; gaining these insights help us determine how we can better facilitate solutions through custom integrations, connected tools and devices, inventory management features, and so forth.
One-Key product manager Nick Monica led a session on the topic “Point of Payment Release,” a common problem experienced by specialty contractors and subcontractors in the standard “bid-build” construction project process.
Description of problem:
Discussion:
The discussion of how to solve payment release problems focused on how we can tie in project data in real-time to better prevent opportunities for data loss.
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We’re excited to be a part of the Construction Progress Coalition and look forward to future events and opportunities to connect meaningful industry dialogue with executables that meaningfully help contractors become more productive through process improvement and automation.