Patent ID: 7283975

Claim:
A method of managing a construction project, comprising: creating at least one electronic drawing, wherein the electronic drawing includes: a plurality of selectable intelligent objects, including at least a first selectable intelligent object representing a first construction item comprised by the construction project; and wherein the first selectable intelligent object is selectable to obtain construction status information relating to one or more categories of construction status information; wherein the first selectable intelligent object comprises a visual indicator of the construction status information; and wherein the electronic drawing further comprises at least one selection arrangement configured to specify a category of construction status information; storing the electronic drawing on a computing system; displaying the electronic drawing on a display device; receiving a user selection of the first selectable intelligent object; receiving a user selection of a category of construction status information; and in response to the user selections of the first selectable intelligent object and the category of construction status information, displaying construction status information for the first selectable intelligent object relating to the selected category; wherein a first category of construction status information relates to labor status information; wherein the labor status category of construction information has labor tasks associated therewith and wherein the labor tasks are selected from a group consisting of: material distributed; hangers in place; joint make-up; items in place; punch and identify; and tested; the method further comprising: associating one of the labor tasks with the first construction item; and setting the visual indicator for the first construction item based on the association; wherein associating one of the labor tasks with the first construction item comprises: at a site associated with the construction project at which site the first construction item is located, using a reader to obtain installation information from an RFID tag affixed to the first construction item; and transmitting the installation information to the computing system, thereby associating one of the labor tasks with the first construction item; wherein the first construction item is located at an elevation and wherein the elevation is included in the installation information and wherein the elevation is determinative of the labor task.