Not so long ago, the challenge in Contract Administration used to be manually filing and keeping track of all the paperwork on a construction project. Now the challenge is to not only keep track and organize the paperwork, but to also keep the digital chaos of emails, photos, drawings and much more organized.

Add to this dilemma the new wild card of people working from home. It becomes difficult for an Architecture firm to maintain control over contract administration records, forms and timelines if you have to use and distribute spreadsheets, word docs or pdfs without an organizing structure? Research suggests that for 1 employee, more than 50% of the work week is spent, searching for information, writing emails, and collaborating.

The solution to these issues is of course digital technology and contract administration software that will help to increase efficiencies, productivity and streamline record keeping.

General Contractors are jumping into the game with their own choice of construction management software. Software which in many cases Architects are being forced to use even though at the end of the day the contractor may not have the Architect’s best interests at heart. It counts nails and hours but doesn’t do a very good job with Change orders.

RForm is an online software that was created for Architects by Architects and follows Architect’s best practises for Contract Administration. It is a tool to organize and streamline the contract administration process, with the Architect in control. It allows for the project team to access the project anytime from anywhere, incorporating a single standard contract admin process that is followed through out the project.

RForm is simple to learn, and simply priced at $29.95 per project per month, with no limit on project team, project size, number of users, or data.

In this 45 min presentation by RForm founder and Senior Architect David Lopes, will you learn how to use RForm along with:

- Overview of RForm cloud based Contract Administration Software and team organization

- A streamlined Change Order process from initial proposal through to Certifying a payment

- Online Management of the Submittal process

- Including the requirement to use the Architect’s Contract Admin software in project specifications