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March 22, 2001

Construction project management goes wireless

  • JobOffice's new software links the construction team in real-time using the wireless Internet.
    • By TERRY STEPHENS
    Special to the Journal

    Rugged laptop computers on job sites? Wireless Internet access between contractors, subcontractors, architects and engineers? A new software program linking everyone to real-time information about project status, change orders and material shipments? What a way to run a construction project!

    JobOffice
    Photo by Terry Stephens
    To demonstrate their integrated technology approach to managing complex construction projects, JobOffice executives Paul Tobin, left, David Gates, center, and Kent Howard, use a wireless laptop to connect to the Internet in a park across the street from their Redmond office.

    Bringing efficiency and communication to daily working environments in all stages of construction and all kinds of weather is a dream that drives -- or perhaps lures -- JobOffice president Kent Howard. His Redmond-based company is about to launch a wireless, on-site software program this summer that he believes will apply technology tools to project management challenges on a scale that will eventually change dramatically how the nation’s construction industry functions.


     
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