These four or five Procore tools that we started using, the teams were like-'this is the cat's meow!’" Procore helped us manage all that-versus trying to manage a job like that with spreadsheets and handwritten daily reports." The Procore tools they’d chosen fit the project hand-in-glove, to borrow an old expression. There were hundreds of proposal requests and ASIs. "Procore also had the best tools for communicating to the owner. Getting the project engineers' buy-in was key to making sure the drawings were always updated, and included any new ASIs or SKs." The size and complexity of the project perfectly suited the stress-test REEDER intended for Procore. "We all work from the same single set of plans in the field. "Instead of lugging drawings around, we have our iPads," Rorrio says. "Let's take a look at the most important parts of how we manage a project-RFIs, submittals, plan management-and tackle those first." Rorrio recalls rolling the system out, and the immediate benefit provided by the several Procore tools they’d opted to start with. The committee had decided on a practical, phased approach to Procore, one that spoke to familiar REEDER pain points. The drawing set probably had 350 pages of drawings, so Procore’s drawings tool was perfect for our superintendents-from day shift to night shift, good communication, RFIs, pictures everything. "It was a two-year, multi-phase, nine-building project. "Procore’s document management is absolutely astonishing." REEDER Senior Superintendent David Rorrio was on the committee that both researched Procore and decided how best to put the software through the wringer. RFIs, Submittals, Plan Management, and the Cat’s Meow "We used the biggest project we’d ever had as the first project to adopt Procore." "We created a Procore committee," Reeder says, then grins. In typical REEDER fashion, they indelicately hurled the Procore platform into the mix. This was the inception of why we wanted to go to a digital platform. "I said, there's got to be a better way to communicate plans between the office and the field. Reeder estimates the process took 45 minutes to an hour of expensive project time. Twenty five minutes of collaboration and solution-finding in the trailer were followed by the long walk back. The super says, ‘Well, let's go back to my trailer. "We went over to a dusty set of scaffolding that had only the electrical plans. The super says, ‘Let's go look at your plans.’" Reeder raises an eyebrow of foreshadowing. I was walking with the superintendent on the project, and the electrician approached to ask him a question. "It was Birdville Elementary School a $20 million, brand new, ground-up replacement school on campus. What brought REEDER to Procore and the world of digital construction management technology? Lane Reeder-Chief Operations Officer and Vice President-can boil it down to a single incident. As outlined in the origin story above, the company doesn’t shy away from decisions. Their K-12 renovations and ground up construction are based in the metroplex area of Dallas-Fort Worth and surrounding independent school districts. REEDER’s work today is largely in the public education sector. Spending an Hour on What Should Take a Minute Today’s REEDER thrives on that same energy. Which is all to say, REEDER Construction did not gently tiptoe into the business. At the end of the project, Reeder quietly hitched his jobsite trailer and towed it home. They pumped the water out, of course-at five gallons per minute. It’s fair to say he was in some instances innovating on the fly, reproducing the 4-inch thick wooden doors in his barn.īefore he could install the required elevator, a crew of 12 laborers spent 10 brutal days smashing a hole through two feet of 90 year-old concrete, then hit ground water while drilling the shaft. Reeder scribbled his proposal on a yellow pad, got the go-ahead and dove in. The remodel of a storied old library in Hillsboro, TX would require exact replication of the building’s historic but timeworn elements. In 1994, founder Wes Reeder rolled up his sleeves and-in a hair-raising example of determined "Can Do”-tackled Reeder General Contractors’ (now REEDER Construction) very first project.
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