Your whole project, in one live picture.
Cost, schedule, risk, and every open design decision — connected, current, and shared with the right people. Here’s what Join does today and what we’ve released so far this year.
Join the more than 1,000 companies using the industry's leading preconstruction and design phase management software.
“In an industry full of software applications, I believe that your platform could be the single biggest contributor to facilitating timely decisions and real-time estimate modeling.”
Join connects budget, design milestones, decisions, and risk — so a change in one updates the others automatically, and everyone is looking at the same number on the same day.
Decision due dates now sit against your real design milestones, so the cost of a late decision shows up while you can still do something about it. Getting there is easier than ever: import the master schedule straight from P6 or Microsoft Project and it's set up.
Risks and items now link both ways. Long lead times on electrical gear become a tracked risk with a score, an owner, and a due date — and the design decision that mitigates it is one click away, with its cost and schedule impact attached.
The milestone report builder lets you choose your columns, groupings, and cost granularity — estimate, budget, item costs, line detail, due dates, assignees — and save it as a view your team returns to every milestone. Rebuilt this year for the kind of visual hierarchy that makes a table readable in a room.
Owners still say "send me the PDF." Now the PDF looks like the platform: a clean header and footer, your project images, page sizes from Letter to Tabloid, and every column fitting neatly on the page.
The differentiator isn't which estimating tool you use, it's whether you can show an owner how you'll manage cost, schedule, and design from day one. Teams leverage Join to demonstrate: this is how you'll stay informed, how you'll be involved in decisions, and how your budget and schedule get protected.
See the Pursuit Toolkit"We pitch Join at every interview. I got one today. I got one on Thursday. I live stream a test project to show them."
Senior Vice President, Operations — ENR 400 general contractor, higher education
Complex programs, sophisticated owners, and schedules that don't move. These are the projects Join was built for.
"We brought on 78% of the trades at the Conceptual phase, and we had 90% of the job under contract at the end of DDs. With this high level of cost certainty, the Owner got early project funding."
Michael Blasingim — Director of IPD and Design Build, Layton Construction
Layton's team reduced overall construction cost on a Montana hospital by 8% and went to GMP at DD instead of CD.
Read the case study"Join helped the design team stay within targeted budgets. This improved the design process immensely. I find Join invaluable."
Jeff Bonk — Project Delivery Manager, Michigan State University
Barton Malow used Join Scenarios to model options with six colleges' worth of stakeholders, show the trade-offs, and reach consensus without slowing the design.
Read the case studyLab, cleanroom, and process-utility scope is where these projects gain or lose their budget — and those calls get made early, with incomplete information, across a lot of stakeholders.
Join gives these teams somewhere to price the options side by side, tie each one to the design milestone it has to land by, and keep the owner current without a new spreadsheet.
Explore the platformEntitlements, power, design, and procurement all advance at once. Join keeps the thread across them so teams can adapt fast and still defend the path to the in-service date.
See Join for data centersBancroft Construction walked into a budget meeting with a dozen options already modeled in Join, won the 600,000 SF Steelworks development on the strength of them, then worked with the developer to take nearly $8 million out of the budget — down to the door hardware spec.
Read the case study"We went into that meeting with a dozen or so solutions that we had built out in Join. That really is what sparked the conversation and ultimately helped us create a newfound excitement for the development."
Bobby Judge — Business Development Manager, Bancroft Construction
Steelworks · Phoenixville, PA · 375 apartments over 45,000 SF of retail · CM-at-Risk for DeMutis Group
Confidential owners, NDAs, and cost information that only some people should see. Join gives you precise control over who sees what.
Join the more than 1,000 companies using the industry’s leading preconstruction software to improve project outcomes and level up across the firm.