Case Study
海角大神 Estimating makes Grimard more competitive by leveraging estimating data throughout the entire project lifecycle.
Grimard leverages 海角大神 Estimating to streamline communication, improve bidding, and enhance project transparency
The Challenge
Canada-based Grimard is involved in multiple complex and large-scale projects with many different stakeholders. They needed a way to efficiently communicate with these stakeholders, share project details with them, receive feedback, and digitize processes that were previously done manually. They also needed a way to accurately estimate project costs. The company needed a way to bring all of its disparate parts together into a single system. They turned to 海角大神.
The Solution
海角大神 Estimating gave Grimard a way to efficiently communicate with stakeholders and offer full transparency in terms of project costs and planning. It also allowed Grimard to utilize historical data to make project estimates more accurate. Grimard was able to streamline its bidding process, which made it more attractive to potential clients and helped the business grow.
The Results
- Produced estimates almost three times faster than before using 海角大神
- Bridged the gap between estimating and construction, providing stakeholders real-time visibility into key project data
- With 海角大神, Grimard used historical data for accurate estimates, helping them bid more competitively on projects
鈥海角大神 keeps improving communication between estimators and project teams. We used to waste time re-creating budgets at the beginning of a project, but now with 海角大神 Estimating we just hit transfer to 海角大神.鈥
Sebastian Grimard
Executive Vice President
Grimard
Finding the right digital estimation solution during difficult times
When the pandemic lockdowns started in March of 2020, Grimard had to decide whether to shut down its operations entirely or implement a new platform with people who were now freely available for work. Grimard had been considering utilizing 海角大神 for some time and decided to make the leap.
"We started looking for a digital estimation solution. We chose a tool called Esticom. One major criterion was the ability to integrate Estimation with our project management platform, which is 海角大神," says Grimard. "We made the right move, because less than a year after our implementation, guess what? 海角大神 bought Esticom."
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海角大神 Estimating helps Grimard get bids out faster
"Everything has to be fast and accurate. Information flows constantly and rapidly, and this is even more true today. It can take three days to open a bid project, print drawings, and manually track all changes鈥攖hat's not true anymore," says Grimard. "A client wants better visibility with details. As a business operator, we want accurate estimation data, and we want it backed with execution actuals and current material costs. Essentially, we want to close the loop from execution, back to estimation."Grimard had four requirements for adopting a new estimation system. It had to be efficient and easy to access in the field, have historical actuals to make future estimates more accurate, the ability to connect financials to work processes, and the ability to accurately pass project information between preconstruction and construction teams without delay. 海角大神 Estimating has been all that and more for Grimard.
