Construction Project Management for General Contractors
Built for Builders
As your company grows, spreadsheets break, reporting slows, and every project runs differently. Kahua brings structure to your operations so you can manage projects, control margin, and report across the business—without operational chaos.
See How Contractors Use Kahua
Take a quick tour of how general contractors manage projects, control costs, and collaborate with owners inside Kahua.
How Kahua Helps General Contractors
As contractors scale beyond a handful of projects, operational complexity increases. Kahua connects project execution, financial control, and portfolio reporting in one system so growth doesn’t create chaos.
Portfolio Visibility
See cost, change orders, and performance across every project in one place. Kahua Analytics provides instant roll-up reporting so leadership can understand the health of the business without waiting on spreadsheets.
Margin Control
Protect your margins. Track budgets, commitments, and exposure across projects to gain proactive financial control while the projects are in flight, instead of finding out after the fact.
Reduce Rework
Standardized workflows and communication mean that everyone, from the field teams to office operations, is on the same page. Take photos, complete punchlists, and manage changes with ease.
Less Administrative Work
AI-powered Assist and Create reduce manual paperwork. Extract information from specifications, forms, and documents automatically so teams spend less time entering data and more time managing projects.
How We Help
Kahua for General Contractors
Kahua for General Contractors simplifies execution by centralizing communication, workflows, documents, and financials in one secure, CMMC-compliant, collaborative platform, empowering teams to reduce risk, control costs, and deliver DoD projects on time and on budget.
Kahua helps General Contractors manage how work is tracked and documented in the field.
Manage inbound and outbound items. Leverage corporate standards for consistency and never lose another communication.
Secure storage of project documents with controlled, auditable access.
Enhance project productivity with efficient drawing management system, including approval and publishing workflows.
Facilitate common documents controlled by workflows and permissions, including submittals, punch lists, RFIs and more.
Collect field observations, daily work reports and work progress.
Capture items such as daily activity and weather on the jobsite. Consolidate the data collected into a single daily report for the job.
Simplify the creation and management of budgets for real-time visibility and control to oversee commitments through the lifecycle of projects.
Define the work breakdown structures for your organization to match your specific needs.
Control project budgets from creation through completion, including tracking changes and comparing budgets to actuals.
Track funding and expense contracts, along with associated change orders, down to the line item.
Support invoices and pay requests to ensure your finance system has the correct information for billing.
Securely store, manage and share DoD Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) across project teams.
Safeguard CUI such as designs, contracts, layouts with built-in encryption, access controls, and automated compliance tools, so you meet DoD standards without slowing down execution.
Enable protected collaboration on sensitive documents while facilitating necessary information exchange.
Leverage built-in compliance tools that continuously monitor CUI handling practices against DoD requirements.
Track and manage safety incidents, inspections and reporting to maintain compliance.
Manage OSHA 300 series requirements from any device.
Track training and certifications for employees on the jobsite.
Manage content and log toolbox talks with workflows.
Support workflows for incident resolution and tracking.
Utilize out-of-the-box dashboards and reports specifically built for managing General Contractors’ projects.
Count on preconfigured reports and dashboards for budget, safety and project bids created for General Contractors.
Display metrics relevant to General Contractors to gain a clear and holistic view of your projects’ performance.
View custom dashboards to adequately evaluate job profitability across the entire portfolio.
Standardize inspections and simplify field oversight with customizable checklists, seamless scheduling, and automated issue tracking.
Build custom inspection checklists with an easy-to-use form builder.
Easily schedule and manage asset inspections across all your projects.
Capture issues and track resolutions to proactively manage asset performance and project quality.
Accelerate CMMC compliance readiness and streamline your certification process in a secure, guided and simple workspace.
Assess and modify your CMMC control status, assignee, and due dates. Easily upload evidence and attach it to the control objectives.
Track your CMMC compliance progress and upcoming due dates in meeting the control requirements for your certification level.
The CMMC Readiness App allows you to upload and view the documents you will be using as evidence for the required controls and objectives.
Why Kahua?
Built to Run the Business of Construction
Consistent Collaboration
Make collaboration dramatically more simply by streamlining the process for RFIs, change orders, submittals and project documentation.
Scalable Best Practices
Create the right processes for your organization, and then make it easier for new team members to learn and utilize them so that you get more and more efficient.
Report Across Teams
Information sharing and visibility up and down organization means that everyone sees the information they need, when they need it.
Customer Story: Walters
After implementing Kahua, Walters saw an 8x improvement in month-end data gathering and replaced over 20 individual files into a single report.
Building Federal or Defense Projects?
If your organization handles Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) or pursues Department of Defense contracts, Kahua supports your compliance journey in a FedRAMP-authorized environment.
Secure workflows and configurable controls help align with CMMC requirements while maintaining operational consistency across all projects.
One platform for commercial and federal work.