K-12 and Education Project Management Software
Deliver Innovative Learning Spaces
Kahua for Education empowers schools and universities to deliver projects faster, control costs and ensure compliance. From planning to operations, the platform streamlines workflows and handover, so campuses are ready on Day One and built to perform for the future.
K-12 facility and planning teams are still struggling to manage their capital projects, based on a Dodge Data Smart Market Report. See where Kahua fits in.
How Kahua Helps with Education Project Management
Flexible and Built for Transparency
Manage education projects with a platform that adapts to your needs and is ready for day-one operations.
Get up and running quickly with a purpose-built project management solution for your district. Eliminate manual processes so teams can focus on creating learning environments that serve students, staff and the community long after the ribbon is cut.
- Use asset data for Facility Condition Assessments to plan, budget and extend the life of school facilities.
- Simplify fund tracking to avoid audit penalties and maintain compliance.
- Keep boards and communities engaged with real-time analytics dashboards.
From new academic buildings to residence halls, deliver projects on time and on budget. Kahua’s asset-centric solutions reduce risk, accelerate timelines and ensure facilities operate successfully for decades to come.
- Capture and connect asset data to streamline handover and ensure facilities are operational on day one.
- Use Kahua’s hierarchy to manage projects of all sizes in one portfolio for full insight and control.
- Gain real-time insight with dashboards powered by Power BI to improve decisions and outcomes across campus projects.
Software for Education Construction Projects
Create Campuses and Schools that Inspire Learning
Kahua for Education empowers institutions to manage capital programs of any size with full visibility, seamless collaboration and intuitive tracking of funding and spending. From scope and cost to time and quality, institutions can efficiently manage the entire construction lifecycle of programs, to deliver next-generation learning environments, on time and on budget.
Assess Facility Conditions at Scale
With Kahua’s Facility Condition Assessment capabilities, you can evaluate, prioritize and budget for facility improvements. Make strategic decisions that extend the life of your assets and align with long-term goals.
Enhance Transparency
Built-in analytics offer real-time dashboards and reports of project status and financial progress to community members, boards and other stakeholders. Improve accountability, foster community and simplify compliance audits and fiscal reconciliation.
Manage Funding Sources with Confidence
Kahua makes it easy to manage multiple funding streams such as grants and bonds across every project. Define rules, track allocations in real time and roll everything up into one clear portfolio view to reduce risk and keep projects compliant and moving forward.
Asset-Centric Project Management®
Redefine project management with an asset-centric approach. Kahua captures critical asset data like equipment details, warranties and maintenance instructions as school projects are built. With complete, accurate information available at handover, districts can better plan, budget and maintain facilities for the long term.
Education Powered by Kahua
Products for Education Construction
Kahua for Education Project Management
Kahua for Education is your all-in-one platform to manage every capital project—today and well into the future. Purpose-built for K-12 and higher education, Kahua helps you track funding, monitor progress and hand over operationally ready facilities on day one. Get the flexibility to grow and adapt as your campuses evolve for the next generation of students.
Transform your project data into actionable insights and improve stakeholder transparency using dashboards driven by Power BI embedded within the Kahua platform.
Track financial health of projects and programs in real time with a dynamic, single-view summary of funding, expenses and balances. Filter dynamically by project, funding source or program to gain instant insights and drive smarter decisions.
Deliver precise financial reports instantly by quickly filtering to specific payment records at the project or program level—keeping key stakeholders informed with real-time, accurate data.
Provide timely visibility into project status and health from multiple perspectives, including project details, funding source summary, financial summary and more. Provide transparent communication to board members and the community.
Manage unlimited fund sources, appropriations, reserves and releases to programs and projects based on defined rules and amounts at the budget, commitment and actuals level.
Streamline the dynamic management of funds across programs and projects; save time and reduce errors with automatic calculation of formulas based on rules for funding distribution.
Simplify day-to-day project management with logical categorization of funding sources; determine and control exactly how to constrain budgets, commitments and spending.
Manage available funding with appropriations and reserves, release funding sources through all agency construction projects.
Simplify the creation and management of budgets for real-time visibility and control to manage commitments through the lifecycle of capital projects.
Leverage owner workflows and a modern, intuitive UI to reduce overhead associated with project budgets and contract management.
Streamline project reporting to improve financial decision making with visibility into historical, real-time and forecasted construction costs.
Gain visibility, control project costs and collaborate to effectively manage change and minimize delays, vendor claims and other hidden costs.
Easily streamline document management, eliminate waste and rework, automate workflows and drive accountability across the board. Collaborating on construction documents is easier than ever when using the following applications:
Helps keep all project information in one place to easily track the progress of projects, ensure everything is on schedule and makes collaboration easy.
Track all daily project activities and information such as labor, materials and weather conditions from multiple teams in a concise format.
Efficiently create and move submittals through the review and approval process to ensure proper arrival of equipment and material to the jobsite for optimal job performance.
Help education construction project teams improve efficiency through standardized reporting that pulls information from a pool of projects’ summaries and distributes for review and collaboration. Greatly reduce the amount of time and resources spent compiling information with these two applications:
Creates a record and a notification for a program manager or other projects resource to generate a report that contains the content requested.
Provides a view into the status of all the projects and the health of each, regarding budget and delivery time.
Allows you to create an archive of data, records, files and attachments within a project from anywhere within Kahua at any time.
A complete or partial archive of all records and files within a project at any time for efficient retention of data.
Effortlessly access the entire archive without sifting through physical or digital storage locations for quick reference or analysis.
Take your education construction management software to the next level. Streamline bid, pre-construction and contract management processes to manage creating, sending and tracking bid invitations to potential bidders.
Provides and documents compliant invitations to bid with a secure receipt of documents through an evaluation and award process.
View drawings, ask questions and submit bids. Create commitments from awarded bids. Manage award notifications.
An all-in-one tool for the bid lifecycle to choose the best vendor for your project.
Leverage Kahua’s asset centric approach to empower K12 schools to streamline the collection of asset data from the start to set their facilities teams for immediate success.
Tag/link assets, docs & media to construction workflow processes to support the unique needs of K12 facilities.
Asset data integrates across BIM, EAM, Revit, CMMS. Consistency across tools reduces need for manual data entry which enables schools to maintain consistency across all systems.
Optimize facility investment strategy, providing real-time insights, cost savings and enhanced preventive maintenance while minimizing risks.
What our Education Customers are Saying
“If you do not pass your audits you have to pay back dollar for dollar because you made a mistake on it. That is crucial. Having a system that can keep up with you and having a system that can track and be able to pass audits is what Kahua does.”
“The biggest reason is the flexibility. We weren’t told no…There hasn’t been a scenario that we’ve presented that [Kahua] said, ‘We can’t do that for you.’ And that’s something that we hadn’t experienced with our previous tool.”
“We chose Kahua for Education for its modern platform. From specific workflows to managing multiple sources of funds, spending and costs, we are confident we can deliver to our students and our community next generation learning environments, on time and on budget.”