K-12 Construction Software
Deliver A+ Capital Programs
Kahua empowers K-12 school systems to create and sustain innovative learning environments. With purpose-built solutions tailored to the unique needs of planning, construction, handover and operations, Kahua’s asset centric approach helps school districts streamline processes from start to finish.
Benefits for K-12 Construction
Smart Construction for Safe & Inspiring Environments for Students
Kahua for K-12 is designed to manage capital programs of all sizes, from $15,000 to billions, offering top-down and bottom-up project visibility, seamless collaboration and easy tracking of funding and spending. With immediate handover of usable asset data, it eliminates post-project “data hunts,” ensuring schools are ready when the bell rings.
Get Up & Running Quickly
Minimize time-to-value. With Kahua’s purpose-built K-12 offering, you will be up and running quickly, with the ability to conform and scale as your programs and funding requirements change and evolve.
Keep Time Sensitive Projects on Schedule
Get the visibility you need to identify potential setbacks, avoid risks and prepare for changes to minimize the high cost of construction delays and ensure your project is complete before the school year starts.
Streamline Asset Data Handover
Position your district for long-term operational excellence with an asset-centric approach to construction. Ensure asset information flows smoothly between all stages of the project lifecycle – improving efficiency in schools for years to come.
Improve Data Transparency
Leverage a secure central source of data, robust project controls, dashboards and real-time reporting to streamline audit processes and Board project status reporting.
Maintain Funding Compliance
Simplify the complex process of managing multiple sources of funds such as bonds, tax revenues, grants and endowments to avoid audits, penalties and loss of funding.
Improve The Full Program Lifecycle
Designed specifically for school construction with support for Planning, Design, Procurement, Construction and Turnover, Kahua provides the full support you need for the lifecycle of your capital programs.
How We Help
Kahua for K-12 Construction
Kahua for K-12 is making a significant impact on our country’s school districts’ ability to manage capital programs more efficiently and effectively. Capture the most relevant asset data for handover while setting up your operations team for immediate success. From scope and cost to time, quality and objectives, schools can efficiently manage the construction lifecycle with an eye toward building spaces strategically designed for students.
An embedded Power BI solution within the Kahua platform delivers reports to meet the specific needs of each school district’s reporting requirements.
Offers visibility and transparency into project health from all risk points and includes three sub dashboards (Project, Fund, Summary), each providing a current snapshot of all projects within a capital program.
Delivers a financial summary of funding, expenses and balance; dynamic filtering allows monitoring of financial health at a project, funding source or program level in one view.
A detailed breakdown of payments that can be viewed and sorted by time, vendors, projects and funding sources.
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.
Contractors & vendors contribute critical asset data like warranties, maintenance schedules and specs for school infrastructure to ensure it is accessible at handover.
Leading School Systems Trust Kahua
What Our K-12 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.”
Improve Your School Construction Projects
Kahua for K12 is designed with school districts specifically in mind. When building elementary schools, middle schools and high schools, Kahua provides software solutions to help you manage the full scope of your capital projects, easily track project funding and spend, manage construction documents and ensure your projects are complete when students arrive.