4. Managing Baseline Costs and Project Phases

Getting Started for General Contractors

If you work for a General Contractor and have been invited to a Join project, here's everything you need to know to get up and running.

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1. Signing Up and Navigating Join	2. Visualizing Project Progress and Costs	3. Tracking Ideas and Opportunities
4. Managing Baseline Costs and Project Phases	5. Pivoting and Reporting Cost Data	6. Project Settings and Inviting Your Team

Learning Objectives

• Get familiar with Milestones and view baseline estimate costs
• Pivot Milestone Estimate and Item costs by your WBS

Milestones Overview

A Milestone is a significant point in time that occurs during preconstruction and typically coincides with the issuance of a new drawing set or updated cost information. In Join, Milestones allows you to keep track of project estimates and budgets and specify any metrics or units of measure for summarizing costs.

Milestone Summary Report

Create a comprehensive view of costs from Estimates, Budgets, Running totals, and Items in your project.

3. Tracking Ideas and  Opportunities	5. Pivoting and Reporting Cost Data