Join Unveils New Insights Feature to Enhance Preconstruction Project Oversight for Construction Leaders

OAKLAND, Calif. — Join, the innovative collaborative project delivery platform for the built environment, has officially launched Join Insights, a cutting-edge preconstruction dashboard designed specifically for general contractor executives. This groundbreaking product provides a comprehensive firm-wide perspective on preconstruction project health and builds upon Join’s acclaimed core project platform, which is recognized for delivering an exceptional owner experience nationwide.

Elevating Portfolio Intelligence

Join Insights consolidates project data into a single dashboard, enabling executives to effectively monitor risk while promoting high performance across all projects. This new feature emphasizes the crucial preconstruction phase, offering actionable status reports that track project health across various projects and regions. With Insights, GC leadership can swiftly identify positive preconstruction trends and respond proactively to potential risks.

“Until now, there has been virtually no way to track actions and outcomes across projects during preconstruction,” says Join’s Head of Industry Strategy Jason Brenner, who previously led collaborative teams at some of the industry’s most sophisticated GCs. “Typically, the only update a GC firm leader gets is from the estimating team every two to three months. And when the estimate is published, it may already be six to eight weeks old. This way of monitoring precon is like driving a car while looking out of the rearview mirror.”

Real-Time Alerts for Project Management

Insights equips project and preconstruction leaders with the tools to keep their projects on track by offering a data-rich overview of preconstruction efforts. This feature enables collaborative teams to:

• Assess which projects have a clear path to budget
• Understand overdue and upcoming decisions on each project
• Visualize which projects are at risk of exceeding allocated contingencies or allowances

Without Insights, tracking project health during preconstruction relies on static cost updates every few months. With this new feature, GCs can monitor decisions—made or pending—on a weekly or even daily basis. They can identify if their design contingency is depleting too quickly and react to unfavorable cost trends between milestone estimates, supporting their project teams proactively.

“Insights is going to dramatically improve a GC’s ability to control project outcomes,” says Brenner.

Brenner, who has also worked on the owner side with companies like Genentech and Johnson & Johnson, emphasizes that the true strength of Join Insights lies in its capacity to help collaborative teams enhance the owner experience. “We at Join have heard time and time again that owners love the ability to see where their projects are trending in real time and to understand exactly where teams need to focus their efforts. Insights provides actionable data when it has the greatest potential to impact project success: during preconstruction.”

To learn more about Join Insights, click here.

About Join

Join is a collaborative project delivery platform for the built environment, designed to facilitate decision-making for all stakeholders involved in a construction project. With real-time insights into project decisions and a visual interface that simplifies complex information, Join empowers contractors, owners, and design teams to advance their projects from preconstruction through closeout. Over 40% of the ENR Top 30 general contractors rely on Join to streamline decision-making and deliver a world-class project experience for owners. Visit us at www.join.build.