Research note
The data behind free external participation
Bad, disconnected project data cost the construction industry an estimated $1.85 trillion in 2020 — and on the ground, teams lose 35% of their time, more than 14 hours a week, just searching for information and untangling miscommunication that a shared system would have prevented. Nearly half of all rework traces back to exactly that: people working from different versions of the truth.
On a hospital capital project, that usually means the contractors, vendors, and inspectors doing the actual work are the ones left out — because licensing them is too expensive or the guest access is too limited. 1Project removes that cost. Every participant is a full user, free, so the plan in the system is the actual plan — because everyone running the project is the one updating it.
Sources
- FMI & Autodesk, "Harnessing the Data Advantage in Construction" (2021) — survey of ~3,900 construction professionals; estimated $1.85 trillion global cost of bad project data in 2020; only 55% of organizations had a formal data strategy in place. Read the report →
- FMI & PlanGrid, "Construction Disconnected" (2018) — survey of ~600 US construction leaders; teams lose 35% of their time (14+ hours/week) to non-optimal activities, including 5.5 hours/week searching for project data, and 48% of all rework is attributed to poor project data and miscommunication among stakeholders. Read the report →
These figures describe the construction industry broadly, not hospital capital projects specifically — we're not aware of a published study that measures this exact split for healthcare capital projects. We cite them because the underlying cause is well documented: per-seat software pricing structurally excludes most project participants, and hospital capital projects share the same multi-stakeholder structure — general contractors, subcontractors, vendors, inspectors — that these studies measured.