Software for the construction industry is uniformly terrible, Autodesk and Trimble are the big players and I’d be grateful if someone disrupted them.
There is a small amount of good construction software, Procore (project and document management) and Bluebeam (amazing pdf editor) are wonderful tools but the estimating software I use by Trimble is awful. Inconsistent UI, they use their own custom GUI elements instead of the built in Windows GUI elements, unclear interfaces, every UI/UX crime is present in it.
Autodesk isn’t going anywhere tho, basically every architect/engineer uses it (in commercial construction).
If you are a GC looking for an alternative project management software that is easy to use, modern, and fairly priced, consider https://constructable.ai (full transparency, I'm one of the co-founders).
Everything being said about existing software in this post very much resonates with what we learned talking to hundreds of GCs. We want to change this.
There is a small amount of good construction software, Procore (project and document management) and Bluebeam (amazing pdf editor) are wonderful tools but the estimating software I use by Trimble is awful. Inconsistent UI, they use their own custom GUI elements instead of the built in Windows GUI elements, unclear interfaces, every UI/UX crime is present in it.
Autodesk isn’t going anywhere tho, basically every architect/engineer uses it (in commercial construction).