BuyerZone users' construction software requirements

We ask users of our quote request service to describe their construction software purchasing requirements in detail so the vendors we match them to can provide customized information in response. Now we're sharing these buyer requirements with you.

We hope these user comments help you get a sense of what types of construction software other users are choosing and what considerations are important to the average buyer. Take a look and you'll probably see some responses that are relevant to your business.

BuyerZone user comments: construction software purchasing requirements

"WE NEED TO CLEAN DITCHES ALONG 39 MILE OF TOWNSHIP ROADS."
-- Purchasing Manager, Government, Adena, OH

"As a excavation and utility contractor we are interested in a job cost estimating program that would easy to use and adaptable to the needs of this type of work. At this time we use Excel.Thank you."
-- Office Manager, Construction/General Contracting, Newbern, AL

"Estimating & Design of Building , Bridges.Road, Rataining Walls, ESR, Design of drainage System with sewer line design software,water supply line system & design"
-- Engineer/Programmer, Government, Aurangabad, Maharastra,India, PR

"Would like to help assist V.P. of Construction with implementing a program that would better track dates from beginning to end of a construction project."
-- Administrative Assistant, Real Estate, Beachwood, OH

"Just want to be able to bid home improvements using software"
-- Engineer/Programmer, Real Estate, Lynchburg, VA

"Best way to estamate job costing and bidding. also any other info i can get as a new contractor."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Real Estate, Snellville, GA

"I am looking for an accounting package specifically for a General Contractor that is intregated with scheduling, project management and estimating."
-- Accounting/Finance, Construction/General Contracting, Show Low, AZ

"Taking on the everyday workload from lead to estimating to completion and billing of roofing projects on subcontractor basis working from job to job."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Construction/General Contracting, Pickerington, OH

"We bid and build post frame and steel structures, need something for design, adding porches, offset buildings."
-- Partner/Principal, Construction/General Contracting, Jacksonville, IL

"Starting new buisness, am looking for better cost estimating, project managment, accounting and project scheduling."
-- Buyer, Construction/General Contracting, Harrison, AR

"To be able to design any project of my interest"
-- Purchasing Manager, Construction/General Contracting, Kharkov, CA

"We are mainly interested in CPM scheduling that can be switched to PERT or a summary bar graph with fund allocations and expenditures for any given task."
-- Buyer, Construction/General Contracting, Bartlett, TN

"I am doing a report at school and I would like to know how much it would cost to build a parking lot in an empty grassy lot and how long it woud take"
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Oskaloosa, IA

"Need help tracking job cost, estimating jobs, tracking payroll, bill paying, tracking company cost and profit."
-- Buyer, Construction/General Contracting, Stonewall, LA

"Masterbuilder will handle all accounting factors. This software will need to be simple and efficient for scheduling construction employees very dynamically. We move a lot of people very quickly from one job to another in a day. We perform around 700 jobs per year, varying in size from 2 men one hour on-site to 40 men months on-site."
-- Buyer, Construction/General Contracting, Lincoln, NE

"Need more valuable information on bidding, plus energy cost co-effeciency."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Construction/General Contracting, Nowata, OK

"Hang 280 sheet of drywall finish and paint how much does it cost?"
-- Administrative Assistant, Consulting, Silver Spring, MD

"Needed to submit to mortgage company and insurance company an estimate to correct damage due to a residential fire. The industry has specific costs for specific work and needs to be submitted in a professional manner. We need information to conform to the industry. We are general contractors working to rehabilitate dwellings that have suffered a fire."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Construction/General Contracting, Mount Laurel, NJ

"Need better job costing; Need to improve your project scheduling process; Need project management assistance."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Construction/General Contracting, Snellville, GA

"The business entails a home improvement business ,repairs,building ,adding new construction toexisting builds."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Construction/General Contracting, Brooklyn, NY

"Looking for program that helps in job costing and estimating of job."
-- Buyer, Construction/General Contracting, Elkins, WV

"Job costing and more accurant bids and improving on my overhead."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Construction/General Contracting, Hamilton, AL

"S$S constructions challenge are better job costings, bigger bids and in the northumberland area."
-- Buyer, Construction/General Contracting, Sunbury, PA

"I am a small corporation that to gain a foothold in insurance projects need an Exactimate system. This is for water/storm/fire restoration."
-- Buyer, Construction/General Contracting, Elizabethtown, KY

"Project scheduling, managing project costs, estimates, managing multiple projects per project manager, reporting.I am just looking for ballpark estimates and literature for budgeting purposes at this point."
-- MIS/IT, Health Care, Bensalem, PA

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