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What is ConstructConnect Insight?

ConstructConnect, the company resulting from the merger of four smaller companies (BidClerk, Construction Market Data (CMD), iSqFt, and Construction Data Company) offers Insight, a construction management platform meant to provide analytics, forecasting, intelligent leads, and integration with Salesforce, as well as Pulse, their goal-setting and performance tracking module to drive team performance.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features ConstructConnect Insight has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 10 ratings of ConstructConnect Insight's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Dashboards

    Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Plan markups & sharing

    Users can annotate plans from the field and easily share plans/markups with other project stakeholders.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Document sharing

    Users can share/attach other documents related to construction projects, such as specifications, contracts, drawings, etc.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Mobile app

    Users can easily access the system from the field on mobile devices such as phones and tablets.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Specifications

    Construction specifications, also called specs, are the details for the work that needs to be completed in a construction project.

    Category average: 8.5

  • Plan distribution & viewing

    Users can compare different versions of plans, and view live updates/revisions to plans (usually from a mobile device in the field).

    Category average: 8.4

Reviews

What users are saying about ConstructConnect Insight.
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In my experience, ConstructConnect is an unreliable and unresponsive company

Michael Vokes
in Sales at Hubbell (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use the database to qualify and track building projects. In my experience, the cloud-based software system is completely unreliable; You never know whenever sign on if the system will even work. Why do I have to sign on twice, in a row, in order to gain access? I feel that's just the first of many problems and challenges trying to use ConstructConnect.

Cons

  • Not having to sign on twice to gain access to database
  • How about actually providing accurate information regarding the schedule
  • I feel that the reliability of their cloud based software stinks!

Return on Investment

  • Positive: Helps fuel the project pipeline
  • Positive: Helps identify key stakeholders
  • Negative: Inaccurate schedule information embarrasses me during project qualification process

Other Software Used

McGraw-Hill Connect

Spend your money elsewhere

Timothy Schrader
President at Chattanooga Roofing contractors (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used ConstructConnect Insight software in my business to access upcoming jobs that are available to bid for my construction company.

Pros

  • They have a relatively comprehensive list of jobs available. However these jobs are available on other platforms as well.

Cons

  • Customer service is definitely lacking. Trying to get clear answers from my rep was difficult.
  • My sales rep was not trustworthy to do what he said and was only concerned about their own bottom line. Instead of trying to cultivate a long term customer we were treated as just another number and another couple of zeros on their balance sheet.

Return on Investment

  • Our experience has overall been negative. The money we have spent has been a net loss for our company.

Alternatives Considered

PlanHub

Other Software Used

AccuLynx, JobNimbus

Very valuable tool for any company that wants to find new building projects

Incentivized
Gregory PalenschatView profile
Product Consultant in Sales at North Star Surfaces, LLC. (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • My favorite part of ConstructConnect is the ability to have detailed specifications that are up to date. We have used other software in the past that sadly could not keep even 50% of posted specifications up to date.
  • The tracking process is great! I have 5-6 personal lists and lists that are created for our team by the ConstructConnect team that tracks different projects for different teams we have.
  • The user-friendly way to search for thousands of projects, products, and companies.

Cons

  • I would like the option to download a certain subsection from a section of the specifications.
  • I think an archive of older projects that no longer have available documents would be great to have access to with the ability to restore all documents.

Return on Investment

  • It's had a huge impact since we switched to it. I do not have exact numbers to share but I would say we have increased weekly leads significantly in the last three years.
  • The time it saves is great! I know that we can trust that 95% of the information we see on ConstructConnect is up to date. This typically will save me multiple calls/emails daily.
  • The only negative thing I can think of is we have fewer interactions with other people daily, whether that be face to face, by phone, or email.

Alternatives Considered

Dodge PlanRoom and BidClerk

Other Software Used

Nutshell CRM, Bitrix Site Manager, Google Hangouts Chat, NiftyQuoter

DO not BUY

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Engineering (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

this program is not good I feel like they stole money from my company. when I signed up I was told I could cancel in 4 months and they sent me a year contract intially and I asked for the 4 month contract instead of sending the 4 month contract they changed it to an anual contract that you pay every four months but was a year. and to make it worse the salesmen was a complete dick about it when his people told me something diffrent and sent me a misleading contract. The contract doesnt even have my right name on it SMH. if your contacted by this company do your reasearch and take my advice and RUN.

Cons

  • keyword search
  • all jobs having plans
  • planholder list

Other Software Used

PlanHub, Dodge PlanRoom, BidNet Direct

This is useless.

Verified User
General Manager in Engineering (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were looking at moving on from sub contracting.
I was under the impression that Construction connect was a hub of users and jobs. Its not. Its just a daily email with the same old useless leads every day.

This service is worth zero to me.
I feel as if I've been conned.

Cons

  • A comprehensive log of jobs in my area would be nice. We're located in Gainesville FL. There has been 10 jobs this month we're on because of our sub contracts. Not one of them made it on ConstructConnect. How many other jobs am I not seeing?

Return on Investment

  • Took $1700.00 from me, provided no service. This site IMHO is a joke.