🎁 What's new in Join: 2024

Running product release notes, including what's been newly added or updated.

Last updated: 4/26/2024

April 2024

• Join Core Improvements
  • Create a Change Event in Procore from an Accepted Item
    Link an accepted Item in Join to a Change Event in Procore, streamlining the coordination activities between preconstruction and operations. This allows Join to continue to be the decision-making platform of choice for project stakeholders later in the project lifecycle and eliminates duplicate data entry.
    
  • Import Estimates from Procore Estimating
    Estimates created in Procore Estimating can be exported (.XLSX) and then directly imported into a Join Milestone estimate or budget.
    
  • Sharing Scenarios
    Share a Scenario to Collaborate with teammates. For example, you could build out a Scenario and share it with the project owner so they can play with different outcomes by changing the status of Items without affecting the underlying project data until a path forward is decided.
    
• Project Comparisons Report Improvements
  • Selecting Columns to Include
    Select any three columns from your list to include in your report, including multiple metrics columns. Columns available include metric quantities, metric $/unit, Total $, or Percent.
    

March 2024

• Join Core Improvements
  • Sharing Draft Items
    Private Items in Join are now called Draft Items. Previously, Private Items could only be seen by the creator until published, but now you can share and collaborate on Draft Items with anyone on the project before publishing.
    

• Project Comparisons Report Improvements
  • Project Comparison Bar Charts
    Visualize the differences between your comparison projects using the new bar charts at the top of the report. These can be visualized by project total or broken down by category for more granular analysis.
    
  • Project Notes
    You can add notes to each comparison project to provide additional context about each project and what assumptions were included.
    

• • Improved Print Experience
    When printing the Project Comparisons Report you can select whether to include charts and notes, and control the project thumbnail size. The report also includes up to eight project columns on a single page.
    
  • Project Type
    The report now includes the project type (Healthcare, Education, etc.) assigned to each project.
    

• • Updated Gordian's RSMeans Construction Cost Indexes
    RSMeans Construction Cost Indexes have been updated to the latest 2024 Q1 data.
    

January 2024

• Join Core Improvements
  • Add Notes to a Milestone Summary Report
    Add notes to individual lines of the Milestone Summary Report. This functions the same way as notes in a Variance or Contingency and Allowance Draw Report.
    
• Project Comparisons Report Improvements
  • Export the Report to a Spreadsheet (.xlsx)
    Export a Project Comparisons report to a spreadsheet.
    
  • Filter the Comparison Projects by any Category
    Filter the selected estimate of a comparison project by any category used in that estimate. For example, you may want to filter by your Area categorization and only see costs related to the parking garage.
    

• • Edit Costs of Comparison Projects in the Report
    Manually override the subtotal or unit price of any line item of a comparison project (previously only possible in the comparison average column).
    
  • Add Lines to the Markups Section
    Insert new markup line items that are specific to the report you are building.
    
  • Add Multiple Milestones from the Same Project
    Add the same project to the Project Comparisons Report more than once and select different Milestones for each column.  You can also copy a project already added to a report to keep any changes you've made to the project in the report.
    
  • Updated Gordian's RSMeans Construction Cost Indexes
    RSMeans Construction Cost Indexes have been updated to the latest 2023 Q4 data.