Campus facilities
A campus facilities office rarely runs one large project. It runs a dozen small ones for different departments at the same time, each with its own consultants, contractors and a client who wants to see their project and nothing else. Fidrel covers the stage after a project exists: one list of every project’s budget and variance, access set per project and per folder, and decisions that can be found again.
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A department head asks how their lab renovation is going, a consultant needs the drawings for another building, and a contractor should see neither of the others. Sharing a drive folder by folder does not scale past a handful of projects.
To know which projects are over budget, someone copies figures from several trackers into a spreadsheet each month. By the time it reaches the director, it is out of date.
A change agreed in a meeting with a department, a change order sent by the contractor and the drawing it affects are all in different places. Two years later nobody can say who decided what.
The Financials page lists the organization’s projects with their current budget, the estimate at completion and the variance. A project is marked Over budget when the estimate at completion exceeds the current budget, and To watch when change orders are pending, invoices are overdue or the estimate is within two percent of the budget. Projects without an approved budget are counted apart, and projects in different currencies are totaled separately and never combined. The page shows a project only to people who may see its costs, and it says how many projects are hidden from the person looking.
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Access is set per project. Each part of a project and each folder can be open to all participants, to administrators only or to selected members, and the estimate stays closed until it is shared. A participant reads, downloads and uploads in permitted folders; a guest only reads and downloads. A department client can therefore follow the drawings and the meetings of their project, while the budget and the other projects stay out of view.
Step 1
Choose your organization to see its projects with the current budget, the estimate at completion and the variance. Search by name or project number and sort by Needs attention first or Largest variance.
Step 2
Invite by e-mail with a role, and give access to the whole project or only to chosen folders. Before the invitation goes out a summary shows what the person sees and does not see.
Step 3
In the meeting record choose Register as decision. The decision gets its own DEC number and notes Decided by, Affected people and Consequences, and it links back to the meeting or the item it came from.
Step 4
A change order has a number, a proposed and an approved cost and a schedule impact in days. Link a budget item and the approved cost is carried into the budget, with the approval made by a project administrator.
Decisions are numbered records of their own, registered from a meeting, from an agenda item or independently. Each shows who decided and who is affected and links to the meeting, document or change it came from, and every record has a change log with the name and the time of each edit. When a department asks why a room changed, you open the decision, not the e-mail archive.
Fidrel has no project intake, funding request, capital planning or approval-stage workflow; it tracks a project once the project exists. No procurement rule of any institution is built in, so the process your campus follows stays outside Fidrel. The Financials page shows only projects whose costs you may see, so a stakeholder with access to one project sees nothing of the others.
Your trial applies to your first own project and starts when that project is created. No card required. Afterwards, choose card or invoice to continue.
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On site, answers need to be close at hand. Fidrel displays DWG drawings in your mobile browser, within the project’s document structure.
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When everyone can see the next step, moving the project forward becomes easier. Fidrel brings activities, dates and reported progress together in a shared Gantt view.
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Talk to usYes, on the Financials page. It lists the organization’s projects with budget, estimate at completion and variance, and marks the ones over budget or to watch. You see only the projects whose costs you have access to.
Yes. You invite the person to one project with a role and the folders they need, and they see that project only. The estimate stays closed to them until you share it.
No. Fidrel has no intake, funding request, capital plan or approval-stage workflow. It tracks a project once the project exists.
Register it as a decision from the meeting. It gets a DEC number, states who decided and who is affected, and links back to the meeting, so you can find it later by number.
A project administrator. Others can propose a change order and fill in its details, but the approved cost is entered and the approval given by an administrator.
No. No procurement rule of any institution is built in, so the process you follow stays outside Fidrel while the records you keep stay in it.
