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As a growing HVAC contractor, you juggle many programs and applications to handle a wide variety of business functions – accounting, hiring, tracking inventory, and the like. You also try to control costs, but with the increase in business it’s getting more difficult to monitor multiple projects. Updates on financials come to you without the benefit of real-time data. Consequently, some projects are on hold until inventory arrives, change orders are updated, etc.

The HVAC mechanical work will be extensive on the bid you just won at the build-out on an existing plant near Ft. McMurray. It will also require a new field manager to oversee the workflow.

You just spent a lot of time and energy on a recent – complicated – HVAC installation at a building site that you were hoping would open up a lot of future business in the Alberta area.

As noted on the Natural Resources Canada website, there are “...over 825,000 kilometers of transmission, gathering, and distribution lines in Canada, [and with] most provinces having significant pipeline infrastructure, a huge portion are federally regulated.”

Construction projects and change orders are an inevitable duo. No matter how far along in the project you are, and no matter how big or small the change order is, any change can impede the project’s duration and will add expenses.

You just recently landed several HVAC jobs – all in different regions of the province. To add to any possible confusion, you’ll be working on projects that are out of the planning-and-design phase and in the ready-to-start phase.

As an electrical contractor, you’ve hired several well-qualified camp electricians in the Ft. McMurray, Alberta oil area. They were all eager to become full-time employees with your company when they learned about your reputation throughout the oil and gas industry.

The efficient control of business processes is essential in the service industry. Such control lowers costs, increases quality, and increases revenue. To get this kind of efficient control, and the benefits it brings, you need a good software system that:

Over the past few years, your heavy construction business has been concentrating on road building, installing generator sites, and completing local government projects.                        

If you’re an electrical contractor, you might be inclined to overlook what might appear at first glance to be complicated software – but you shouldn’t. The latest technology, like enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that offer a single database with real-time information updating, cloud-based connectivity, and mobile access, allow you to integrate your business processes. Integrating your business processes makes it easy to manage multiple work sites, sub-contractors, vendors, and customers.