Brasfield & Gorrie Improve Construction Project Efficiency with Newforma

This is part of our Essential Strategies for Improving Construction Efficiency, offering a comprehensive look at essential strategies for reducing delays, overcoming communication challenges, and optimizing resource management. Learn how to streamline workflows, leverage digital tools, and implement key efficiency-boosting techniques to enhance your project efficiency.

Brasfield & Gorrie is one of the nation’s largest privately held construction firms, providing general contracting, design-build, and construction management services for a wide variety of markets, including healthcare, commercial, institutional, federal, municipal, industrial, infrastructure, and water/wastewater treatment.

For most projects, the Brasfield & Gorrie construction administration team is required to enter submittal and RFI information in two or more different systems.  The design team for the Mayflower Bristol Landing project uses Newforma’s Project Center software, which is ideal for architects and engineers, and Brasfield & Gorrie chose Newforma’s ConstructEx for submittals and RFIs and initially began uploading information in the design team’s Project Center Info Exchange site.  This involved duplicate data entry which Brasfield & Gorrie was already accustomed to.

Both Brasfield & Gorrie and the design team agreed to participate in Newforma’s Early Adopter program for the new Workflow Connector for ConstructEx, and the design team installed the Connector for their Project Center environment.  This allowed Brasfield & Gorrie to improve project efficiency by entering submittal and RFI information once in ConstructEx, and have it automatically transferred to the design team’s Project Center software.

Jimbo estimates that his project team spent on average, over one hour per day with duplicate data entry. The construction administration team for Brasfield & Gorrie now only has to upload submittal and RFI information in ConstructEx. The design team had no additional work to receive and send submittals and RFIs – they could use their normal Project Center workflow. In addition to time savings, by automating the transfer of information between systems, errors that may occur from manual data entry are eliminated; improving overall construction ROI.

ConstructEx is a cloud-based construction administration system that enables Brasfield & Gorrie to add their subcontractor team to the project, streamlining the communication of submittals and RFIs.

The ConstructEx centralized database provides the Brasfield & Gorrie team with a structured method to store, organize, and track submittal and RFI information. The construction administration team can send and receive submittals and RFIs to the design team while maintaining full access to all project information, audit trails, and archived project data.

To learn more about Newforma’s workflow connector and other construction administration features, book your demo today!