Superintendents and project managers have accepted mobile telephones as the answer to jobsite communications. But easy talk can outrun paper trails and lead to disputes and broken chains of accountability.
That was the experience of Peter Lasensky, who found himself with inadequate records to force a client to acknowledge and pay for changes he had verbally directed. So Lasensky started a company in San Diego called Pacific Datavision Inc., to launch SkyLog, a service that lets contractors use mobile phones to file time- and date-stamped notes from the field. Service is limited to southern California for now, but Lasensky is planning for expansion.