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Is there a need to aggregate construction projects into a site?

  • January 23, 2025
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toonsix
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Hi:

Our Acumatica Hackathon 2025 team 10 aka Funnel Cake plans to create an application that will enable a construction/field service company to create a site and then for each site the required projects.
From my observations, construction companies have several projects on a site. For instance, a college campus needs two new buildings: one for the dept of engineering and one for the dept of mathematics. The college campus is a site and there is a project for each building. The construction company wants to see the total actual revenue and the total actual cost of the site. It wants to see the status ( in process, on hold, completed, cancelled). It wants to see the address, contact information, start date, target end date, etc. of the site.
This will be an application that will be free on Github. Any Acumatica Partners and customers will benefit from it.
Please give me your feedback asap since the Hackathon starts on 1/24/25 at noon.
Thanks. ToonSix@intercs.com

Best answer by aaghaei

@toonsix Thank you for sharing the document. This seems to have a special use case for special client. It is totally different than what I think can benefit construction companies. From it appearance it seems it meant to be used by a client who has multiple subcontractor onsite that can be acheived by subcontractor module in Acumatica.

If this was meant to be used by a general contractor or subcontractor working on multiple projects on a given site, then site must be carried to project entity and its subsequent screens and activities to be useful. 

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iqraharrison
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  • January 23, 2025

@toonsix hi! this sounds like a great idea.  many of my clients would love the ability to have “child projects” off a master one and be able to consolidate the reporting of it!  i am excited to see it in action!

good luck!


aaghaei
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  • January 23, 2025

@toonsix This is very common specially in multi-vertical projects to have a Master Project (Site as you mentioned) and then projects. I am not sure what you have in your mind but simply adding a screen to setup Sites and then select it as a field in the Project will not really be that beneficial. The Site will need to be carried to the Project Selectors (Platform-wide) and Reports/Inquiries to add real value.


toonsix
Freshman II
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  • January 23, 2025

Hi aaghei:

Thanks for your reply.

The scope of the application can be as follows:

  • A site workplace menu where you can access the following:
    • Profiles
      • Sites
      • Facility management companies
    • Inquiries
      • ..
    • Printed forms
    • Reports

A general example is given in the attached file

  • A list of sites with general information for each site. The general information should consist of;
    • Site ID
    • Date
    • Vendor
    • Site name
    • Site project Quantity
    • Site project total (of project quotes?)
    • Site project service quantity
    • Site service total (of service quotes?)
    • Currency
    • Site status
    • Facility management company
    • Unbilled Line total (for projects that are still in open status: customer invoices still to be sent??)
  •  
  • The new site screen should display all information that is relevant to a site such as:
  •  

    • Location
      • Address and contact of the site
      • Description of the site eg. an Amazon warehouse
    • General information
    • Projects
    • Services
    • Invoices
    • Files    
      • Blueprints, CAD files, approvals,
  • A general example of a site screen is given in the attached file

See the attached file to understand it

ToonSIx@intercs.com


toonsix
Freshman II
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  • January 23, 2025

Here is the attached file “Business Requirements” for the Funnel Cake application with construction sites.


aaghaei
Captain II
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  • January 23, 2025

@toonsix Thank you for sharing the document. This seems to have a special use case for special client. It is totally different than what I think can benefit construction companies. From it appearance it seems it meant to be used by a client who has multiple subcontractor onsite that can be acheived by subcontractor module in Acumatica.

If this was meant to be used by a general contractor or subcontractor working on multiple projects on a given site, then site must be carried to project entity and its subsequent screens and activities to be useful. 


rfairchild58
Varsity I
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  • Varsity I
  • January 24, 2025

Our use case for this is slightly different but most likely it is something we could utilize.  We have projects awarded to us by a GC and later have the contract split into two contracts.  One with the original GC and one for the Owner.  Typically, this is done for sale/use tax purposes.  For us, it would be better if we can see the combined result in a view instead of having to add the two projects together.

 

Good luck at the Hackathon

 

ron