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“Tele-Works’ solution provides countless hours of time savings for city staff and users—which include contractors, residents, and business owners—through the automation of posting and retrieving building inspection results.”

 —Mark Nolfit, Permit Center Coordinator, City of Belmont, CA

Building & Permits

buildingworks™--Super-Fast Inspection Completion. Less Pressure.

Inspections take time and care to complete, unfortunately so does paper work and data entry. These administrative tasks often hold up the process creating long wait times for contractors and homeowners. Our buildingworks™ IVR solution helps you avoid delays, by giving contractors, homeowners, inspectors, and staff access to the same information without having to be at City Hall. All they need is a phone.

Complete more inspections faster. Eliminate wait time. Keep construction moving. 

Buildingworks™ provides 24/7 self-service access to permit information and plan check results by phone or web. Contractors or homeowners may schedule, reschedule, or cancel building inspections or even pay permit and re-inspection fees by credit card or eCheck. And when inspections are complete, they can even get a call to let them know.

Real-time Benefits  

Buildingworks™ interacts directly with your building department database so information is posted immediately with no batch processes and no manual steps. Contractors get up-to-date information as it happens, so they can deploy work crews more efficiently. Your inspectors complete more inspections per day, while your office staff is freed from handling routine questions and inspection scheduling. With buildingworks™, you can get a lot more done, without having to add staff.

Features.

Avoid delays.

When your inspectors post results, they are immediately available to contractors, reducing wait times. And with outbound calling, contractors receive automated notices of inspection results.

Scheduling Convenience.

Contractors and homeowners can check permit and plan information; schedule, reschedule, and cancel inspections, and even leave voice comments with additional details for inspectors . You can even build in your pre-requisite logic to ensure inspections are scheduled in the proper sequence.

Make Paying Easier.

Collect fees by allowing contractors and homeowners to pay permit and re-inspection fees with credit card or eCheck and keep the process moving.

It’s not about location anymore.

Your inspectors no longer have to run back to the office to post results. Inspection results can be posted from the construction site, the office, or anywhere else with a touchtone phone.

 Spanish, Armenian, or Cantonese? 

Do you have a large population of non-English speaking citizens? With our multiple language options, you can find a way to communicate with everyone.

 

Experience Counts

With more than 60 building inspection IVR systems in use and integrations to all major database vendors, we have the know-how to deliver real-time IVR for your department.

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