Site diaries and defect reports from BauMaster long after the project ends.
Site diaries, handover and defect reports, site photos and the reports you export from BauMaster go into your knowledge base – still there after the project ends, when warranty questions come up. Access is read-only; nothing in your BauMaster projects is changed.
BauMaster
subject to a feasibility check · folderExample question
“Which defects from the Sonnenhof handover are still outstanding?”
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How the connection works
BauMaster is a cloud service from the Upper Austrian provider PASit software, so your construction documentation is held by the provider, not on your server. Before we start, we check with you and the provider whether and how BauMaster can be connected – that is, which route your package includes and whether it works for ongoing exports. The standard route: you export site diaries and handover and defect reports from BauMaster as PDFs, and junova mirrors the folder they are saved to into your instance, encrypted and over outbound connections only. The vendor also mentions an open REST interface, a SharePoint connection for the digital construction file and export to Excel and MS Project, with custom interface solutions available on request in the Enterprise package. Photos from your phone and voice notes from site can also be uploaded directly, without any connection.
Once set up, synchronisation runs automatically: new and changed documents from BauMaster are added without anyone having to upload anything.
Set-upHow much set-up is needed depends on the chosen route – report folder, a fixed export per project or one of the interfaces. Once the feasibility check is done, we estimate the effort and agree it with you before anything is set up, with the provider if needed. The set-up is charged on a time-and-materials basis, agreed in advance.
Documents
Typical content: BauMaster
- Site diaries with crew numbers, plant used and the day’s work – including the weather line that BauMaster records for the site location, which carries weight if the works are disrupted
- Handover and defect reports: each defect as a ticket, with deadline, responsible contractor and its status when the report was exported
- Photos pinned to the plan – the marker on the drawing and the picture that goes with it, instead of a folder full of unnamed phone photos
- Minutes of site meetings and inspections, with the actions agreed and what had become of them by the next site meeting
- Plans and plan revisions from the project, with a record of who approved which revision
- Daywork reports and the hours your team records in the app – in other words, work done outside the construction contract that has to be justified later
Example questions
Questions you might ask your documents
“Which defects from the Sonnenhof handover are still outstanding?”
1 Answer with source
“What did the site diary for 14 May say about the reinforcement in building section B?”
2 Answer with source
“Is there a photo showing the insulation before plastering?”
3 Answer with source
Start
Before a connection is set up
This connection is set up for you rather than switched on in one click. Every source has its own logins, permissions and folder structure – so before we start, we check with you whether and how it can be connected at your company. Set-up and maintenance are charged on a time-and-materials basis, agreed in advance; the amount depends on the source.
You can also upload files, whole folders, emails, photos and voice notes at any time. In the demo you see the answers using sample documents from your industry; you check them against your own documents in the first weeks after go-live.
Preliminary check
What we check in advance
Before we start, we clarify when and how often you export reports – because a report is a snapshot, not a live record: anything that happens to a ticket afterwards, such as a defect being fixed or a deadline being moved, only appears in the next report. For today’s status, BauMaster is still the place to look; the knowledge base shows what applied on the day of the report and who signed it. We also look at how your photos are stored: a photo’s position on the plan comes from the report it belongs to. Only what is on paper can be cited – so an agreement made on the scaffolding or a phone call with the structural engineer belongs in a report or note if you need to prove it later.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about this connection
Our projects from 2019 to 2023 are closed in BauMaster. Will they come across?
Whatever you export as reports from closed projects comes across – and that is often where the value lies, because warranty questions come up years after the last day on site. For older projects, you export the reports once, project by project, and save them to the folder; after that, new reports follow as part of day-to-day work. The hours from the reports can also be exported as a spreadsheet if you want to prove daywork hours later. How far back you go is up to you.
How should we file the reports so that people find the right project later?
One folder per project, with the reports inside. The project, date and building section are in the report header, and the system reads them from there; a meaningful file name is nice to have, but it isn’t what the system relies on. The folder level still matters, because it decides which site an answer belongs to and who can see it. If a project was set up twice in BauMaster – once for the quote and once for construction – just tell us which one applies.
What if the provider changes something in the app or in our package?
Nothing in BauMaster itself is touched; the system only reads the folder your reports are saved to. If something changes in the export – a different format, a different route – you’ll usually notice because no new reports arrive; we then work out together how to proceed. The knowledge base itself sits in your own instance, regardless of how you change your package with the provider later. That way, you keep the construction documentation from previous years in your own hands, outside the program too.
On some projects, the client also has access to BauMaster. Will they see our knowledge base too?
No: the AI knowledge base is your own instance, and you decide who sees what there – by document type and role, not by individual file. Defect reports and plan revisions for site management, daywork reports and hours for the office – that’s one way to split it. Your permissions in BauMaster stay as they are. There is no access into your knowledge base from outside – the connection only runs outbound from your side.
Guides
Further reading
- Making construction site documentation searchableDigital, searchable construction site documentation: how companies find daily site reports, photos and minutes again – in everyday work and in a dispute.
- Mobile phone photos from the construction site as searchable documentsUsing construction site photos as documentation: how mobile phone photos become searchable company documents with text recognition and project assignment.
- Document management for construction companies: plans, delivery notes and site documentation under controlDocument management for construction companies: how project files, OCR and AI search make delivery notes, daywork reports and site photos findable in construction.
Integrations
Other integrations
- Microsoft 365
- SharePoint & Teams
- Outlook & Exchange
- Google Workspace
- Dropbox Business
- OneDrive
- Box
- Egnyte
- Zoho WorkDrive
- pCloud
- Microsoft Teams
- Notion
- Confluence
- Slack
- Asana
- Gmail
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- Pipedrive
- Zoho CRM
- QOMET
- TaxMetall
- Streit
- pds
- Advokat
- Kieselstein
- Werbas
- File server
- Nextcloud / ownCloud
- NAS
- RZL Software
- RA-MICRO
- AUER Success & ABK
- TopKontor Handwerk
- Scan-to-Folder
- Dictation and voice recordings
- TAIFUN Handwerk
- Labelwin
- NEVARIS
- untermStrich
- Soloplan CarLo
- iX-Haus
- BMD
- Existing DMS
- Schweighofer Manager
- DOMUS
- proALPHA
- Wiki and intranet
- DATEV
- Your own database or specialist application
- kwp-bnWin.net
- ams.erp
- Loco-Soft
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In a 30-minute video call, we use sample documents to show what answers with sources look like. Before we start, we check whether and how BauMaster can be connected at your company.