The building industry’s one-stop portal for building product procurement
We make it easier to do the right thing! Save Time. Buy Better.
Welcome to the BuildingEase Community
We are excited to provide you with this free tool so you can streamline your own product research and tracking and easily share knowledge across your firm so you can spend more of your time on truly valuable work! BuildingEase will be an extensive platform, connecting design, construction and supply across the building ecosystem, but we are beta testing modules of our platform one at a time. There is a LOT more to come! We are counting on you to help us make this tool exactly what you need!
Here’s what we are building to make your life easier!
Unified
Catalog
ONE catalog with everything you need!
Streamline your search and find all the ‘green’ & regular info in one place! 60k & counting…
Product
Exchange
Use BE-Xchange to source salvaged materials, find new homes for leftover materials & FF&E, as part of your workflow!
Contractor Connector
GC and sub module to streamline submittals, RFI’s & use our tools to stop unwanted substitutions even before they happen!
Streamlined Suppliers
Manufacturer & Rep module enables faster communication, pricing and automatically get global volume discounts without any extra effort
Group
Genius
Crowdsourcing!
3 clicks to get aggregate info that we share back from all users like, “Show me all product X installed in LBC”
For the BE-Xchange:
Download the User Guide here (this Guide is for the BE-Xchange only) then:
Skip to the bottom of the page and get started.
For the Material Tracker (MT) Log in and Set Up:
You will click the link below to log in/register and get on your way. Just so you know what to expect, below are the steps. You will also get a user handbook and of course, most importantly, actual humans will be here to help!!
(One thing to note before you dive in – our platform saves every action as it happens, so no need to “save” all the time!)
- Register and log in!
You can register yourself and invite others in your firm or on your team by sending the link to this page. - Upload the spreadsheet(s) you’ve been using until now*.
If you don’t have one, no worries! You’ll start from scratch! And remember, more than one list is good – you can manage multiple lists here.* If you use Google Sheets, you’ll have to download them and then upload to our site. - Start!
One of the advantages of using MT is how easy it is to structure and name different lists as you like – for different teams, clients or building types.- If you only have one list, but you want to create more – it’s easy to duplicate and edit!
- Auto notification to spec writer and back to help stay coordinated
- Invite other team members as you wish (client, consultants or GC) and then…
- Permissions allow you to assign read only/edit
- Give us feedback:
By email to [email protected] or in our beta tester’s Miro board: https://bit.ly/buildingease.
Until our monster Unified Catalog is live, you’ll have to add products the old way (manually) – but only once!
Sharing and updating is easy. When the catalog is live, it’s 1-click from the catalog to magically make the product appear in your Material Tracker!