With offices in Lebec, California, Ground Breakers Construction Inc., needed a mobile, cloud-based project management and document control solution with a speedy cost-to-benefit to help the company scale for growth. The Ground Breakers team saw opportunities for operational and process improvements to reduce unintended costs and improve the quality of work. With a wide variety of services and personnel, they needed to empower field workers (and office staff) with an integrated project delivery system to address Change Orders, RFl’s, Daily Reports, Payroll and Cost data collection to speed up activities and decision making across the business.

Mobile Project Management increases efficiency and productivity. Field Foreman to Management at Ground Breakers now have a real-time 360-degree view of their projects using eSUB on a daily basis and respond to immediate issues relating to budgets, Change Orders, timelines, tasks, personnel, and scope of work activities.

All project data is right at their fingertips and all costing and time card data collected at the jobsites is neatly organized and searchable in a single database.

According to Marty Siebe, Chief Operating Officer at Ground Breakers., “Field Foreman adoption has been excellent since they began using tablets to run the easy-to-use eSUB platform in their daily project delivery activities. Our staffers have very diverse backgrounds, and some are not tech sawy, but there have been no complaints about the intuitive user interface, and robust capabilities the eSUB platform provides.”

“Over time we will be able to use our historical data to help us bid better, know our strengths, and know what we need to improve. It also gives us a competitive advantage over any other subcontractor still using paper; being able to have live, up-to-the-minute data in the palm of your hand is essential.”

Marty Siebe, Chief Operating Officer of Ground Breakers Construction

The Beverly Center renovation project is one of many large-scale and long-term projects Ground Breakers is working on, so eSUB needs to scale and grow as companies grow. “The platform has many modules, and we’re continually working with eSUB’s Client Success Team to take advantage of new capabilities,” Marty said.

“We spent about a year researching a lot of different programs and figuring out what would suit us best and then we zeroed in on eSUB. eSUB is mobile, cloud-based, it’s adaptable, it grows with you, and it’s constantly changing, and those were some of the key elements that drove our final decision. eSUB’s cost to benefit made the decision pretty clear, said Mr. Siebe.

“Over time we will be able to use our historical data to help us bid better, know our strengths, and know what we need to improve. It also gives us a competitive advantage over an!:J other subcontractor still using paper; being able to have live, up-to-the-minute data in the palm of your hand is essential, said Mr. Siebe.”

“The most value we’ve seen from using eSUB has been the ability to access information from any where with an Internet connection and on any device. Being able to upload files and submit reports from our central office and tell our foreman in the field that they are now on his or her tablet is a significant benefit,” said Mr. Siebe. “Having real-time costs and labor data at our fingertips helps the Ground Breakers team make quick decisions that save time and money.

“Our workflows and document processes have been standardized. Our communications are uniform from the field to the office. The productivity of our workers and management teams are significantly improving, and eSUB is helping Ground Breakers break new ground and change lives,” said Mr. Siebe.