JHL Constructors Facilitates Process and Safety Improvements with Help from the OpenAsset-Procore Connector
JHL Constructors is a 100% employee-owned builder with over 35 years in business. The marketing department wanted a more efficient way to capture project progress photos for internal and external communication. They were contending with thousands of images uploaded from drones, phones and in-the-field teams. The OpenAsset-Procore Connector enabled JHL to not only facilitate process improvements, but also empower their sales and marketing teams with prioritized project photos they wanted to grow their business.
Building a Better Process
The marketing department at JHL Constructors wanted a more efficient way to capture project progress photos for internal and external communication. They were contending with thousands of images uploaded from drones, phones and in-the-field teams.
This case study explores how the OpenAsset-Procore Connector enabled JHL to not only facilitate process improvements, but also empower their sales and marketing teams with prioritized project photos they wanted to grow their business.
Challenge: Drones, Phones and Clutter Prone
JHL uses Procore Construction Software to collect and leverage the job site photos they use to track project progress and create high-quality sales, branding and marketing material. Unfortunately, the tremendous volume of photos coming in from the field made it difficult to find, manage and, ultimately, use the valuable digital assets in their archive. Enter the OpenAsset-Procore Connector.
Solution: Push Project Images Directly from Procore into OpenAsset with the OpenAsset-Procore Connector
Built to enable the seamless upload of images from Procore into your OpenAsset DAM, the OpenAsset-Procore Connector makes it easy to find and access images whenever they are needed. That means your team can tell the story of each project as it progresses – a capability that is incredibly valuable in terms of project management, sales, marketing and branding.
Develop Sales Collateral, Marketing Material and Branded Media
AEC firms pay thousands of dollars for the technology to capture and collect the project photos and video they use in sales collateral, marketing material and branded media.
“The operations folks in the field are using drones, iPhones, or iPads to take the photos and store them in Procore… The Connector makes it easier for our marketing team to select, transfer and tag relevant photos in OpenAsset.”
-Marketing Manager, JHL Constructors
By enabling users to push images from their Procore solution directly into their DAM, the OpenAsset-Procore Connector provides teams with a bird’s eye view of the project archive, thus making it easier to cherry-pick the best, most aesthetically pleasing project photos for use in:
- sales collateral,
- branded media,
- proposals,
- advertisements,
- videos,
- marketing campaigns,
- commercials
- and more.
Enhance Speed and Organization
Organizing thousands of jobsite photos is a massively time-consuming task, especially when image files are disorganized and found in several different storage locations. Fortunately, the OpenAsset-Procore connector enables your team to push project photos directly from Procore into your DAM, saving teams the hassle of manually hunting down and organizing thousands of disparate project photos.
“The OpenAsset-Procore integration has made photo compiling for our weekly update more efficient. With just a few clicks, we can locate the photos and tag them for use in the Update as well as archive them for future use in proposals, brochures and articles.”
-Communications Manager, JHL Constructors
Users can also create photo tags and add those to photos uploaded to OpenAsset. Teams can then decide what tagging logic they want to use to best capture the information and create photo tags for their project accordingly.
Keep Managers and Investors Up to Date
Project photos are a great way to keep project managers informed, and investors up to date on the status of their investment.
“Having current photos of what we do is important to keep content relevant. We use the Procore integration to assist us in keeping projects sites updated.”
-Marketing Manager, JHL Constructors
The OpenAsset-Procore connector enables your team to quickly and efficiently push project photos from Procore into OpenAsset, where they are easily compiled for use in progress reports and status updates.
Streamline Site Inspections
Site inspections are a necessary part of every building project. The ability to push project photos from Procore directly into OpenAsset enables field, safety and operations teams to easily and readily collaborate over site issues via the swift exchange of image and video information.
“JHL is continually striving to capture project progress for both internal and external communications.”
-Communications Manager, JHL Constructors
In other words, the OpenAsset-Procore Connector makes it easier for your team to find and eliminate safety concerns by exchanging photos of the issue and deliberating before it becomes an accident or a costly violation.
Create Project Proposals
To create better proposals and win more business, firms need a tool that will not only bring order to your disparate digital assets, but also enable your team to be more efficient, more productive and better able to create high-quality proposals that stand out from the competition.
“JHL wasn’t looking for a solution, but once our team saw how the OpenAsset-Procore Connector worked, it was an easy decision to make the integration work for our team.”
-Director of Business Development and Marketing, JHL Constructors
Designed specifically for firms like JHL, OpenAsset makes it easier to share and manage the multitude of digital assets needed to create winning proposals and RFP responses. If you’re looking for a better way to find, share and utilize your project photos in Procore, then now is the time to try the OpenAsset Procore Connector. Contact us today to get started.
About JHL Constructors
JHL Constructors is a 100% employee-owned builder with over 35 years in business. They are a fully integrated, Colorado-based and Colorado-focused construction firm, serving clients in the markets of Infrastructure and Vertical Building.
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