All too often construction projects end up in some type of litigation and lawyers are brought in to resolve issues relating to delays, cost-overruns, construction defects and many other conflicts. Progress photos become an important tool for construction lawyers when it comes to resolving specific claims or issues related to the project’s “Critical Path” and “As-Built Schedule”. JobSiteVisitor.com is a construction progress photography hosting website that manages, organizes, and shares progress photos with the project team. This service conditions photographers to take progress photos from the same location on a consistent basis. Taking photos from the same spot each week creates the visual as-built history that is needed to resolve many construction related claims.  JobSiteVisitor.com then uses image viewers to organize the progress photos in chronological order by week and by point location. This online service provides weekly job site tours and time-lapse history while providing visual photographic documentation of the as-built construction.

JobSiteVisitor.com provides construction projects with a secure location to host their progress photos. There are four (4) different levels of project access; Paying Administrator, Administrators, Full Users and Partial Users. Visit our post on Access Levels to learn more about each level. Basically, administrators manage and upload all the content and control who has access to view the progress photos while Full and Partial Users only have access to view the progress photos. This access level structure creates the needed security for viewing progress photos. Members of JobSiteVisitor.com can join multiple projects and have access to each project through their own individual account. This makes it easy for upper management personnel to monitor multiple projects from their own individual accounts.

At the beginning of the project administrators upload Site and Floor Plans unique to their building. Administrators then identify and locate points on these plans where they will take progress photos from on a regular basis. JobSiteVisitor.com has a built-in email service that reminders administrators to take photos each week. Over the course of the project administrators can add, turn-off, and also relocate points as conditions change. Note that the service also allows administrators to upload “Miscellaneous Photos” that are not associated with the stationary points. The service is designed to manage all of the photos taken on a construction project.

After the progress photos are taken each week an Administrator then uploads them to JobSiteVisitor.com. The upload process is easy to use, Administrators “Browse” and locate the photos they want to upload and then “Tag” them with specific information like Image Type, Date, Point Location, and Description. After all the weekly progress photos have been uploaded the Administrator uses the same service to send out a mass-email update to the project team letting everyone know that new progress photos have been uploaded. Users can then login to their own individual accounts to view the progress photos. Repeating this over and over each week during a project provides a great organized as-built photographic history of the project. It also provides much needed virtual job site tours for team members who can’t always get to the job site.

10 Things Lawyers should know about JobSiteVisitor.com:

1.  Conditions clients to take progress photos from the same location each week.
2.  Organizes & Manages progress photos by week and by location.
3.  Documents the As-Built Schedule with photographic accuracy.
4.  Provides a photographic record of what actually occurred.
5.  Helps identify problems and issues early before they become claims.
6.  Affordable and easy to use.
7.  Doesn’t require excessive training to administer or use.
8.  Accounts are all password protected and by invitation only.
9.  All content and membership is controlled by administrators.
10.Gives employees something to update rather than their FaceBook account.

JobSiteVisitor.com can be used on any size project from a kitchen remodel to a new football stadium.  The Service Packages are affordable and easy to use. To SEE how the service works visit the links below to watch some short videos and see our sample projects:

About Page & Videos
Sample Projects
(link located at the bottom of the clip board)

Please feel free to share JobSiteVisitor.com with your clients and anyone else who might be interested, If you have any questions concerns or comments please let me know. I can be reached at  Brian Sweeney.

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