Collaborative Project Consulting Leads the Green Revolution, With the Help of Manymoon and Google Apps

We here at Manymoon are extremely proud to be helping an amazing  company lead its industry into the 21st century.  Let’s take a look.

Examples of green LEED-certified building projects led by Collaborative Project Consulting.
(Photo credit RMA Photography)

The Vendor

Manymoon is a leading social productivity tool. Today, businesses are working and collaborating in fundamentally new ways, and Manymoon is enabling them to do so, leaving behind methods that are both inadequate (emails and spreadsheets) and outdated (static project management systems). Collaborative is using Manymoon, with Google Apps, to help lead the green revolution.

In recent years there has been a paradigm shift in the design process as building owners demand dramatic reductions in environmental impact. To achieve these goals, design teams must innovate and collaborate in new ways. The American Institute of Architects and the US Green Building Council have set a new standard called the “Integrative Design Process” where all parties share information, risk, and ultimately the reward.

Collaborative recognized the need for an effective information management tool a few years ago to facilitate this new paradigm.  According to Tim Kohut, AIA, LEED AP Homes and BD+C, Senior Strategist at Collaborative, “The tools we used to work with, like Basecamp, are very static tools and don’t do the job. We need tools that are as fluid and collaborative as our business.

The Solution

James Weiner, AIA, USGBC Charter LEED Faculty, and Principal Consultant at Collaborative, sums it up nicely. “Team members in an Integrative Design Process know fewer boundaries in a process that is fluid and highly innovative, but not many tools have been developed to assist in the critical exchange of ideas, documents, milestones, and tasks. This is a gap we’ve filled with Manymoon, closely integrated with Google Docs.”

Tim states “From our perspective, one of the real strengths of Manymoon is its close integration with Google Apps and Google Docs. Now, documents are alive, fluid, and easily accessible right where you want them – inside the task you’re working on. This is what an integrated process looks like!”

Manymoon allows tasks to be grouped into milestones with drag-and-drop simplicity.
Both milestone and task due dates can appear on a linked and shared Google Calendar.

The Results

Manymoon and Google Apps saves Collaborative up to 20% in terms of hours and effort (emails, conversations, etc.) For example, Tim estimates Manymoon saves him having to send 10-15 emails each day. Multiply that across the organization and it adds up to thousands of dollars in saved productivity.

And the results of using Manymoon are not limited to efficiency gains, but also include greater success in project outcomes, i.e. higher levels of LEED certification (Gold and Platinum).

Tim Kohut concludes enthusiastically “Integrative Design demands an integrated communication tool that will allow us to innovate and evolve at the same pace as our projects. Manymoon and Google Apps enable us to chart a course forward. Onward with Manymoon!”

To see a longer case study, with more information on how Collaborative Project Consulting uses Manymoon and Google Apps, click here.