The design philosophy and concept of Bravopm is based on the information, documents, forms and reports used throughout the project lifecycle, and all project personnel can share information and track to-do items on the platform according to their levels of permissions. It further integrates the information flow and document review procedures, allowing owners, architects, engineers and contractors to collaborate on the platform in accordance with their roles, greatly improving team productivity and maintaining complete records throughout the project.
Bravopm consists of many modules/tools that corresponds to the major kinds of information and documents raised and used during project management tasks, as shown in the following figure. You can implement Bravopm on your project at any time during the project. We can provide your cloud Bravopm platform within one working day, and import the existing information and documents into the system within a few days or weeks depends on their volume. At the end of the project, we can handover all the information and documents to you within one week. Having a comprehensive and complete set of project information and documents is one of the most indispensable elements to protect your rights and interests of your contract.
Please take a moment to learn more about the Bravopm from the content below. If you have further questions or would like to request a presentation, please feel free to contact us.
*collaboration modules
Design (Drawings, Specifications)
How do you manage the drawings? Do you have the most current drawing list at all time? Do you have a system that every project personnel can easily lookup and view the drawing at any time, whether in the office or on the jobsite with a mobile phone/pad or computer? Can you effectively grasp the changes of the previous and current revision when you manage change orders? Can you easily share any drawing with email or message communication software to relevant project staff?
Design Document
The design document page always displays the latest revision of each document. When you open/expand a document, you can see information of the latest (newest) revision as well as its all previous revisions and download/view the PDF and DWG files of each revision.
During construction, each new revision should come from official change order/variation and Bravopm creates links between them. You can easily check out all the drawings issued with a change order and compare them against previous revision in Bravopm.
Tender Drawing
Bravopm can automatically generate lists of tender drawings by discipline, for example, architecture set, structure set, ME set etc., with the latest (newest) revision number and date of each drawing. No matter how many revisions you have received during the tender/bid stage, you will always use the latest revision for quantity take-off and easily share that information with subcontractors.
Contract Drawing
Bravopm can automatically create a list of contract drawings by discipline, for example, architecture set, structure set, ME set etc., with the latest revision of each drawing. No matter how many revisions you have received during construction, you will always work on the latest approved revision and easily share that information with subcontractors.
Design Document Batch
You do not need to use ftp, Dropbox, and/or any other outside systems to transfer or share a huge amount of drawings and specifications if you have Bravopm. Further, when you need to send out a batch of documents for review and comment, the design document batch module can largely reduce the time and efforts of the review process: "send out the documents -> provide review comments -> consolidate all review comments -> revise and provide new version". All participants work on one single web page which contains all information they need!
BIM Model (coming soon)
On the Bravopm platform, you can view BIM models, conduct scene switching, distance measurement, building rotation and more directly from your computer or mobile phone/pad via browser without additional software. You can also do version control of BIM models and more model applications on the connected BIM collaborative platform.
Engineering Documents (Contractor Documents)
Do you send and receive lots of emails for RFI submit-answer, Submittal submit-approval tasks every day? Do you always spend too much time on digging out all responses among emails and preparing logs/reports to track the outstanding/open RFIs and submittals? Let Bravopm help you!
*Submittal
Bravopm ensures that you always see the latest information of the submission-approval process of each submittal every time you open the submittal page. The owner/engineer can easily check out the unsubmitted and unapproved submittals to expedite progress. Bravopm's powerful collaboration capability streamlines the lengthy submission-approval process, which benefits all participants (contractor, architect/engineer and owner) in time saving and better control of outstanding submittals.
*Shop Drawing
In addition to the traditional batch shop drawings submission-approval process through Submital module, Bravopm provides the Shop Drawing module to track the approval status of every revision of each shop drawing. Because of that, you don't have to find a single shop drawing among many drawings in a pdf file, any shop drawing can be easily looked up and viewed whenever you need it. Similar to Design Document module, Bravopm gives you the most updated shop drawing lists by discipline every time you open shop drawing pages.
*RFI
When RFIs cannot be answered in time, the whole project team will bear the risk of time delay and cost overrun.
Bravopm's RFI module streamlines the RFI submit-answer process among contractor, PM, architect/engineer and the owner. Auto-notification emails with detail RFI information will be sent to all stakeholders when an RFI was submitted, responded, returned and answered. All responses with attachments are kept in Bravopm rather than in individual email so the RFI responsible person can quickly check out and consolidate all responses then come up with the final answer to reply to the issuing contractor.
Quality and Safety
How do you store the huge amount of quality and safety forms, photos and documents? How do you track outstanding quality issues? Bravopm's collaboration platform connects the QA/QC staff from the owner side and the contractor side closely to quickly resolve and rectify quality and safety defects. None of the outstanding defects will be ignored in Bravopm.
Inspection
Quality can only be assured through effective and solid inspections. Whether they are regular or random inspections, all the information and documents needed for the acceptance of inspection application and the outcome documents after inspection are kept in the Inspection module. For the defects found during Inspection, you can use NCR, Punch List and Safety Notice to monitor the rectification process.
*NCR (Non-Conformance Report)
NCR is a crucial mechanism for managing contractor's violation of contract during construction. Bravopm's NCR module streamlines the violation identification -> request/approve remedy proposal -> rectification confirmation process and allows you to attach any photos and videos which demonstrate the violation as well as the status after rectification. All photos can be displayed directly on the webpage and do not need to be downloaded one by one to view them.
*Punch List
Similar to NCR module, Punch List module enables you to identify and rectify each defect efficiently during handover inspections.
*Safety Notice
Safety is the basic requirement of every construction project and is the focus of public sector inspection. Any unsafe construction site or behavior should be audited and corrected/improved at any time. Bravopm has this stand-alone module that makes all safety-related issues more visible, highlighted and can be taken responsive actions.
Tender
Bravopm can help you manage the tendering tasks which are trivial but should not allow mistakes. You can keep track of the status of each tenderer, tender queries and addendums and keep the whole set of tender documents as well as the tender return documents on the corresponding modules. If you are a tenderer, all documents received from the client during tendering can be easily shared with your subcontractors to ensure their quotations are based on the latest documents.
Tender Invitation
Bravopm lets you to grasp the status of all the tenderers of each package including who was interested? who was pre-qualified? who was invited to submit tender? who has collected tender documents? who has submitted the tender? who was awarded? on a single web page. All that information and associating documents such as tender return documents, tender analysis and tender review reports are saved in the system and can be easily shared with commercial team members.
Tender Queries
During tendering, can you effectively manage the answer and distribution of each tender question? For example, who should be responsible to answer the question? when is the deadline of providing tender QA? Are there any unanswered questions before tender closing? How to create tender QA document for distribution? Bravopm can help you deal with the above tasks easily and reduce mistakes.
Addendum
Addendum refers to any information or documents issued to all tenderers after the issuance of base tender documentation. Bravopm helps you manage all addenda from collecting relevant materials to issuing addendum to each tenderer during tendering and making contract documentation.
Contract
Contract, variation and payment documents are crucial documents to protect your right and profit on each project. Do you have a secure and structured repository to store and share those documents with stakeholders? How do you know if you have complete information and documents of each variation and claim? How do you know the status of each change request, change order and payment application? With Bravopm, all the above tasks can be easily managed in a secure and transparent manner and you don't need to worry any missing after commercial staff changed.
As a best practice for project management tasks, package should be used for grouping commercial documents, construction documents and quality documents. Bravopm may be the only system with this capability.
Package/Contract
All the information and documents issued out and received of each package in the tender stage, the key information contained in the contract such as the contract amount, duration, commercial terms, together with all time and cost changes during the project, can be secure stored in the Package module.
Subcontract
Bravopm further includes detail contractual information and documents of subcontractors and allows subcontractors share RFI and Submittal information.
Payment Log
Generally, each interim payment application comes with a lot of supporting documents. Bravopm helps you easily upload a large number and amount of attachments and store the detail information of each payment record. You can easily track outstanding payments and check out the payment progress of the entire project.
Potential Change Register
When there are any events that may affect the time and/or cost of the project, you should register them in this module for preparing variations or claims. You should regularly evaluate all the active potential changes for risk management.
Notice of Potential Change (NPC) / Change Order Request (COR)
In the change process, a Notice of Potential Change/Change Order Request is used to notify the owner of the potential changes with reasons and estimates of cost and time impact and get the owner's approval for issuing Change Order. Bravopm helps you manage NPCs/CORs and keep all relevant information and documents throughout the project to avoid disputes between the owner and the owner's representative.
Change Order (CO)/Owner's Instruction (OWI)/Engineer's Instruction (EI)
Change occurs in every construction project. CO/OWI/EI is the official document which is issued to the contractor for contract change. A complete change order record should include the description, relevant drawings, specifications, the estimates from the QS and claims from the contractor and all back and forth communications until settlement. Bravopm helps you manage all the above information and documents in one secure place to ensure the cost numbers in cost reports and final account are accurate.
Communication
Project directory maintenance, correspondence management and meeting management are the fundamental but important tasks in project management. Detailed and complete records of correspondence and meeting minutes would be crucial for resolving disputes to protect your interests.
Directory
Bravopm provides company-level and project-level directory modules. The project directory records can be imported from the company directory when the companies' and contacts' records exist in the company directory. With Bravopm, you can quickly search the specific project members by name, nickname, phone number, and email address and job title etc.
Correspondence
A detailed and complete correspondence log is very important for project management. Bravopm's Correspondence module provides sufficient fields for management purposes and attributes for grouping, as well as a highly customizable numbering system that automatically generates correspondence numbers in accordance with the numbering convention of the incoming and outgoing correspondences of different correspondence types used on the project.
Meeting
Do you always spend a lot of time preparing and distributing meeting minutes? How do you track the tasks assigned to you in all meetings? How do you find a particular topic among all meeting minutes? Can you take minutes in the Rich Text Format? Can I embed pictures or attach files in meeting minutes? Bravopm's Meeting module let you handle the above tasks in the most efficient way. In addition, the flexible layout allows the user to adjust to the desired format; each meeting item can be attached with any attachment file and saved permanently in the cloud; when the user enters the project, the dashboard displays the full project and the user's pending meeting items. , no longer miss or overdue any meeting project.
Transmittal
With Bravopm, you don't need to use outside systems such as ftp, Dropbox or instant message software to transfer files. You can register all project-related files and transfer them through this module immediately. All files can be permanently retained in Bravopm with a complete audit record.
You can compose emails without leaving Bravopm. Whether as a reminder, notification or information sharing, the integrated email system will automatically populate item/record information to the email subject, email addresses of recipients and the link of the document which you are working on, you only need to complete the email content then click the [Send] button.
Schedule and Progress
We are often asked if Bravopm has scheduling capability to produce Gantt bar chart? Unfortunately, the answer is No. As a PMIS, the point is how the system can help you manage all kinds of schedules, baseline, current plan, 7-day look up, 30-day look up, 90-day look up etc., from different packages. Which is the baseline schedule
Schedule
All the schedules can be uploaded in the Schedule module to share with stakeholders.
Milestone
Bravopm's Milestone module provides the information of the forecast and actual slippage days of each contract milestone for each package/contract.
Progress
Bravopm can draw the S-curve according to the monthly planned and actual cumulative work done amount.
