MCAA Community vs Building Swell

MCAA's mission is to guide and support member success to build a stronger, more sustainable future for the mechanical contracting industry. Through member-driven resources, comprehensive education, and strategic partnerships, we empower members to shape a future of unparalleled innovation and growth.

See your shop today and the horizon ahead. Building Swell tracks where every job stands right now, forecasts the weeks to come, and shows which crews are at capacity while there’s still time to plan around it. Your company runs its production schedule in Building Swell. This app puts that schedule on your phone, for the office, the shop floor, and the field. Sign in with the account your company gave you. See where every job stands today Every assembly shows its station, who’s working on it, and the ship date it’s headed for. Planned hours, actual hours, and the work left to finish are on one screen, so a status check takes a glance. Forecast the weeks ahead Look past this week to the next month of work. You see the hours booked against each stage and crew, where a station is full, and where there’s room for more. Know your real capacity before you bid, and take on more work knowing your crews can deliver it. Plan your teams to capacity See who’s assigned, who’s planned, who’s available, and who’s out. Build the week’s plan, move work to the crew with room, and the rest of the schedule updates with it. When a drawing revises or the field moves a delivery, you replan in a few taps and see which station backs up and which crew is open. Keep the forecast built on real work Crews scan the QR code on a traveler to open the job, its drawings, and its steps. They log progress and hours as they finish, and run inspections with photos at the assembly. Field crews see what’s finished and what’s on the next truck, and scan deliveries as they arrive. Every update flows into the forecast, so next month’s plan rests on real hours from your floor. Building Swell is built for prefab: multi-trade racks, wall panels, bath pods, prefab piping, structural steel, rebar cages, precast, and the custom piece that has to meet the building. Electrical, mechanical, plumbing, sheet metal, glazing, and structural shops use it at one location or several, with repeat assemblies and one-offs on the same plan.