Custom Project Management Application for Bridge Builders

• Super admin has full control over system settings, user management, and project access permissions.
• The staff with a Creator role — such as construction project managers — can initiate projects, define workflows, and assign tasks but with limited administrative privileges.
• A User (field engineer or research engineer) can work on assigned tasks, contribute to project discussions, and view relevant details based on their permissions.
• A Guest role has limited access and can be used primarily for external stakeholders, allowing them to view selected construction project information without editing capabilities.

User permissions can be modified at any point, allowing administrators to adapt access rights as project needs change. This flexibility helps to maintain both operational efficiency and strict security standards across all levels of access.

The new construction management system supports both blank projects and template-based projects, giving the flexibility to choose the best approach for employees needs. Blank projects are ideal for unique workflows or custom setups. Construction PMs can create a blank project by specifying its name and assigning staff members, like engineers and analysts, from the list of registered users. Template-based projects streamline setup for recurring initiatives. By selecting a previously saved template, users can quickly launch a project with preconfigured tasks, workflows, and milestones.

All bridges are categorized based on their lifecycle stage, allowing users to classify projects into Active, Assigned, On Hold, Planning and Archived. Completed construction management projects can be archived for long-term storage or duplicated to launch similar projects without rebuilding from scratch. This feature is especially useful for repeating project types — for example, ongoing structural monitoring studies or repeated field tests — ensuring consistency and saving time.

To keep everyone on the same page, the bridge management platform sends real-time notifications for all project-related changes, such as new assignments, deadline adjustments, or task updates. Notifications can be delivered via email, in-app alerts, or push notifications, ensuring no critical update is missed.

With To-Do lists, construction project management teams, including Research Engineers and Field Technicians, can now break projects into clear steps, assign owners, and track progress in real time. Check-in/check-out workflows add transparency, while built-in meeting prep tools (like agendas and reminders) keep everything on track. Users can also block time in their calendar to focus, locking tasks during that period to avoid disruptions.

The client needed a clear way to visualize project timelines and resources. With the implementation of the Gantt Chart view into the new construction timeline management solution, they can now easily track assignments, milestones, and dependencies in one place. The chart offers day, week, and month views to support detailed planning and quick adjustments. Each task is linked to an owner — such as a Research Engineer, Field Engineer, or Analyst — and can be clicked for detailed info, including start/end times, owners, and notes. Users can also mark specific dates with event names to detect bottlenecks and adjust schedules on the fly.

Construction management tasks appear in a scalable calendar view (weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly) which allows users to visualize assignments at different levels of granularity, depending on their needs, where a weekly view is useful for daily task management, while a quarterly view is better for strategic planning. Users can also link their schedules with Outlook calendar for seamless synchronization, allowing for coordinating field visits, lab testing sessions, and stakeholder meetings, ensuring better coordination, and avoiding overlapping commitments.

The client needed a way to stay on top of project progress without manual updates. With the help of an implemented automated tracking tool, task statuses are updated in real time, providing accurate, up-to-date insights. Reports cover key metrics, like assignment completion rates, time spent on activities, and resource utilization, helping construction managers spot delays, optimize resources, and keep bridge management projects on track.

The engineering project management application enables custom configuration of signal types, expected value ranges, and frequency of data collection. Construction engineers can assign sensors (strain gauges, tiltmeters, accelerometers, temperature sensors, and more) to specific bridge components or test objects and define individual thresholds for each metric.This is especially critical for field engineers conducting tests on-site and data analysts reviewing behavior in post-processing.

A real-time dashboard aggregates incoming signals and displays them in a visual, color-coded format for quick assessment. Each signal block includes the current value, timestamp, and status indicator (e.g., within range, warning, or critical). This allows construction researchers to observe structural behavior as it unfolds and make informed adjustments during testing.

The bridge monitoring platform helps engineering teams to manage the entire lifecycle of their sensor equipment — from assigning it to a specific project phase or physical location to decommissioning or recalibrating it. Metadata, such as sensor type, calibration date, and serial number, are stored for each unit, making it easier to track performance and ensure measurement accuracy.

For documentation and post-experiment analysis, the custom-built project management software for engineers maintains a detailed log of all signal data. Engineers can filter the logs by project, signal type, or component, and export structured reports to use in presentations, publications, or compliance documentation — an essential capability for Construction Research PMs and Data Analysts.