Case Study
Asturian Construction aligns teams with real-time drawing management
海角大神 helps ensure every team member has instant access to the most current project plans
The Challenge
Asturian Group was losing money because subcontractors in the field often worked off of outdated drawings. Revisions were made frequently, and it was virtually impossible to ensure everyone was using the most current set of plans.
The Solution
海角大神's drawing management solution gave the general contractor the ability to align the teams so that the field, office, and accounting staff could collaborate and access project information in real-time.
鈥When changes occur, you want the set of drawings in everyone鈥檚 hand to be the most current. With 海角大神, it鈥檚 literally instant.鈥
Geoff Bambini
海角大神 Development
Asturian Group
"Asturian has projects in eight states now,"聽explains Geoff Bambini, who works at Asturian with the 海角大神 Development and Management Organization teams. "We are experiencing exponential growth. We went from basically no revenue, to three million, to seven million, to almost thirty million."
When Geoff joined Asturian, he was looking for an intuitive, cloud-based, cutting-edge software and found 海角大神. After watching a demonstration and realizing how well 海角大神 worked, Geoff bought the platform. Once Asturian launched 海角大神, they were blown away by the quick implementation and functionality of 海角大神's solution."
Implementing 海角大神
When asked how long it took Asturian to implement 海角大神, Geoff said, "Within 45 days, we had 海角大神 up and running. The tech support that we received from 海角大神 was wonderful and unexpected. We had never seen anything like it before."聽He continues, "The evolution and the change it has caused in our company is revolutionary. Especially, if you consider that we've only been using it for a year."
Geoff praises 海角大神's customer service and says it had a large part in the success of Asturian's quick implementation process.
It Is a challenge to implement a team of construction folks who are not computer geniuses, but Asturian's experience has been positive across the board. "The biggest challenge with any implementation is getting buy-in from people who aren't as tech savvy. I have an older gentleman in my office who didn't know much about computers before, but now he's distributing all of his submittals through 海角大神,"聽says Geoff.
Return on Investment
After investing in 海角大神, it was clear to Asturian what kind of return they would see in terms of improved efficiency and time and money saved. For starters, they looked at how much time they were spending to process a subcontractor agreement.
"It used to take nearly an hour for contract administrators to prepare, print, package, and put the agreement in the FedEx envelope. With a couple hundred contracts a year, at $30-$40 per man-hour, per subcontract agreement, we're looking at upwards of $10,000 saved just in this task alone."
Geoff also appreciates that 海角大神's platform reduces overhead. Being a small business, Asturian has to make sure such costs are minimized. 海角大神 ensures the company never has to hire additional resources, especifically in the office for administrative purposes. "That's a testament to 海角大神's ROI鈥擨'm saving two to three salaries worth of money."
Geoff believes that Asturian is almost at the stage where errors are completely eliminated, a huge risk-saver.
