Bartlett Cocke builds Children's Hospital of San Antonio

To calculate time savings, we sent out a survey to the team asking, “About how many hours per week does PlanGrid save you, compared to using paper blueprints?” Five project managers and four superintendents responded, all reporting time savings of at least five hours per week. On average, the project management team reported 8.1 hours saved per week, per person, and the superintendents reported 6.63 hours per week, per person. Together, the nine team members who replied to the survey reported a savings of 67 hours per week or 3,484 hours per year. Incorporating the national average salary, the total time savings results in $194,056/year. This total savings does not include the time savings from the 20 other members on the project.

Bartlett Cocke General Contractors reported an internal budget of $13,500 for paper blueprints. They also reported an average of $1,000 - $1,500 budgeted by each of their subcontractors. For the purpose of this calculation, we’ll use an average of the reported budget which is $1,250/subcontractor. We estimate about 20 major trades on a given project* which nets $25,000 total budget for all subcontractors. Therefore, the total paper budget including the general contractor is $38,500.

Rework is one of the most costly disruptions to a construction project and one of the hardest construction costs to measure. Yet, its negative impact on the construction schedule and budget is something that cannot be ignored. One of the main causes of rework is the field worker’s accidental usage and building off of outdated drawings, due to the difficulty of physically distributing constantly changing drawing sheets and updating them with the most current information. PlanGrid’s complete platform, automatic syncing, distribution, and versioning of new sheets eliminate this problem.