Whether you want just visibility or total control, Kahua is here to help with the tools you need to efficiently track and manage construction documents and drawings to save time and reduce risk.
Monitor the effectiveness and efficiency of your design and construction teams to ensure positive project outcomes. Kahua’s collaborative Document Management suite makes sure everyone is always on the same page with the accurate information they need to get the job done right the first time.
Enable collaboration between team members in the field and at the office to efficiently manage all construction documents and drawings.
Make sure project documentation is timely, accurate, comprehensive and always available to all project team members.
Leverage workflows, tasks and notifications to enforce your standards and hold everyone accountable for their responsibilities.
Keep all of your project documents together in one place
Keep all project files and metadata in a single, secure location. Comprehensive archiving and version control ensure all team members are always looking at the current version of project documents.
Share files with all internal and external project team members. With flexible permissions, you can ensure that only the appropriate team members have access to project folders and files.
Kahua provides a Common Data Environment for all project stakeholders. The Shared Drawing Log is optimized for collaboration and a modern markup toolset and a collaborative commenting model helps keep the project team on the same page.
Easily access files from your desktop or mobile devices in the field with Kahua’s simple one-click file opening. No internet access? – No worries. Work offline and sync files later.
Markup files with Kahua’s modern native markup toolset or leverage our seamless integration with Bluebeam. In addition, files can be sent for eSignature via Docusign without ever leaving Kahua.
Give your entire project team access to the rich information that BIM and VDC models provide. View, measure, and markup without the requirement for any additional software.
Enable your project team to efficiently create and move submittals through the review and approval process to ensure the proper arrival of equipment and material to the job site.
Track and manage your project submittals with a cloud-based submittal log. View real-time assignments, statuses, due dates and more.
Define responders and due dates, and assign and monitor tasks associated with submittals. All approvers can mark up submittals directly in Kahua with our modern markup toolset.
Know where your submittals have been, where they are, and where they’re going. Easily locate and track submittals from anywhere, on any device.
Use Submittal packages to group related submittal items that move through the same review workflow, enabling approvers to apply actions in bulk to all items with the Submittal package.
Accelerate the submission and resolution of any questions relating to the construction of your project.
Streamline collaboration with your design team directly in Kahua or via email to enable more timely and effective responses. Markup and attach documents to RFIs, and pin to drawings for additional insight.
Distribute RFI responses and approved RFIs to your entire project team and maintain a complete distribution list to minimize errors and rework.
Access a full audit trail that includes the complete history of every RFI, including all responses, markups and dates, all encapsulated in a single place for easy access and discovery.
Easily create change requests directly from RFIs, and manage all change orders associated with RFIs — in one place.
Speed up the creation of your punch list and easily manage all recorded punch items to get your contractors off the site as soon as possible.
Use Kahua’s extensive library of common punch list items and defects or create your own. You can attach pertinent documents and photos directly to punch list items.
Create punch list items and document corrections with photos either in your office or at the job site with the Kahua mobile app.
Easily route punch list items to responsible parties to correct open items. Document all corrections, and keep up to date and communicate status with robust reporting.
Efficiently log daily information on labor, equipment, materials, weather and more. With Kahua, you’ll never be left wondering exactly what happened, and when.
Easily log labor by company and location, equipment utilization and materials delivered.
Automatically import current weather conditions and easily add notes for further detail or clarification.
Request input from multiple project team members and incorporate all inputs into a single consolidated Daily Report.
Simplify the management of inbound and outbound project communication, and ensure consistency and accuracy in the format of your company and project communications.
View and manage all inbound and outbound project related e-mails, including distributions from other Kahua apps, from a single location.
Easily document phone calls, in person discussions, or other conversations where a decision was made. Never lose track of project related communications including letters, memos, faxes and more.
Generate formal correspondence on standard letterhead, including letters, memos, fax cover sheets and transmittals. You can apply different templates and logos based on project or author.
Archive and store all your project communication as part of the project record, ensuring accountability and reducing risk.
Create a secure central repository for the storage and management of all project photos for the history of your project
Add images directly to Daily Reports, Submittals and other Kahua Apps. Kahua consolidates all your project images along with comments, metadata, and dates, into a single, searchable library.
Upload images as you take them in the field. Utilize your mobile device to take pictures in Kahua, or upload from your camera roll to add visual aids to your forms and records in Kahua.
Add more detail to your photos with interactive commenting. Easily review comments from team members and add your own for further clarification.
Take visual reporting to the next level by adding project photos to reports and portable views.
