FASTTAC: Delivering Value To Project And Facility Management Teams

For organizations involved in large construction projects, it is often hard to capture all the activities, manage personnel, and share important information between staff from start to finish. It becomes increasingly time consuming and inefficient to keep multiple sets of drawings needed for a building as they keep changing during different phases. Responding to this need for electronic document control, distribution and staff collaboration is the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based company FASTTAC. Using technology that originated at Carnegie Mellon University and established in 2005, the company specializes in providing cutting edge software solutions for construction drawing and document sharing, annotation, collaboration and communication.

FASTTAC provides products that enable the construction and facility management industries to offer fast and easy access to project drawings and related documents created during the planning, design, and construction phases. It provides electronic document control, distribution and collaboration systems designed for the construction project teams and facility management personnel throughout the life of a project. During the design phase, the solutions provided by the firm can be used to share requirements, schematic designs and to streamline the process of collecting feedback from project stakeholders. During construction phase, contractors, architects, engineers and project staff can use the product to ensure that everyone on the project always has the latest set of updated documents before work is done. And as project nears conclusion, the FASTTAC’s solutions becomes essential as a centralized archive for all facility drawings, operation and maintenance manuals, and all the related facility information to help facility managers discover the source of problems, plan work, capture issues and record changes as they occur, thus maintaining a continuous and up to date permanent record.

FASTTAC is the only product designed to centrally manage and maintain the contract set of project drawings and related documents while automatically distributing all needed content to the user's local computer.