Construction Project Management for Specialty Contractors
Take Control of Every Job, From Bid to Billing
Specialty contractors often work across multiple general contractors, each with different systems and processes. Kahua centralizes job financials, change orders, and project documentation so your team can operate with consistency—no matter who you’re working with.
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Kahua for Subcontractors delivers a secure platform for managing drawings and submittals while enhancing collaboration with contractors and GCs, controlling costs and ensuring quality, profitable project delivery.
How Kahua Helps Specialty Contractors
Every GC runs a different system. Your business shouldn’t.
As specialty contractors grow across multiple projects and general contractors, visibility becomes fragmented, change gets harder to track, and margin risk increases.
Kahua brings structure and control back to the way you operate — so growth strengthens your business instead of complicating it.
Job Visibility
See performance across every active job in one place. Track bids, change exposure, and financial performance in a system that you own, instead of relying on GC systems or spreadsheets.
Margin Protection
Standardize how you manage job costs, commitments, and change orders. When financial data lives in one structured system, margin becomes something you actively protect—not something you reconcile after the fact.
Change Control
Capture, document, and manage change consistently across projects. Strengthen documentation, reduce disputes and improve recovery when scope shifts.
Operational Consistency
Align your teams around best practices that reflect how your company operates. As you grow across more jobs and customers, your processes don’t fragment—they scale.
How We Help
Kahua for Subcontractors
Kahua helps Subcontractors 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 teams.
Safeguard CUI such as designs, contracts, layouts with FedRAMP’s rigorous security controls and encryption standards.
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 Subcontractors’ projects.
Count on preconfigured reports and dashboards for budget, safety and project bids created for Subcontractors.
Display metrics relevant to Subcontractors 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.
Manage quotes for service work orders consistently in one easy–to–use tool.
Generate quotes for maintenance and service requests in the same tool you use to track the work as it’s completed.
Generate consistent quotes with standardized pricing for labor, equipment and materials in a central library.
Create quote templates to ensure that the system is generating only consistent, complete quotes.
Track actual work performed against awarded quotes including supporting invoicing and payment via integrations with financial systems.
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.
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.