From 0 - 100: Managing Projects and Winning Jobs - Bluebeam Extreme Conference 2013

From 0 to 100: Managing Projects and Winning Jobs with

Bluebeam Revu

Mike Prefling and Garrett Faller

Presenters:

About Ryan Companies

• Founded in Hibbing, MN in 1938

• 2013 Revenues of $900M+

• Over 600 Employees

• Developer, Designer, Builder, Owner, and Operator

• ENR Top 100 General Contractor #43

• Headquartered in Minneapolis MN

“Always do the right thing.” — Jim Ryan

What You Buy Today, I Can Buy Tomorrow at Half the Cost

Rapid Adoption Rate of Virtual Design and Construction by GC’s

VDC

A Culture Change Was Needed….. and fast

• A culture of tried and true

• Intelligence was getting outsourced

• Diminishing technical skillsets

• Overwhelming amount of solutions

The Challenge

Where is Our Biggest Waste?

Paper Quality Latency Field Issues

Bluebeam Arrives at Ryan• July 13th, 2012 there were zero Bluebeam

licenses at Ryan Companies• August 2nd, 2013 there are 156 user

licenses

• A myriad of areas were enhanced, and innovation within Ryan began• Takeoffs• QA/QC – Doc Overlay• Markups• Studio Sessions• 3D PDF’s• Mobility and Paperless delivery• Checklists• Punchlists• Hyperlinking

3D PDF’s

Drawing Overlay

Studio Sessions

Takeoffs

Mobility

Punchlists

Checklists

Hyperlinking

PaperQuality

Latency Field Is

sues

• Competition to push the limits on job-sites

• Leadership groups are forming

• Internal/external user groups are sharing best practices

The excitement at Ryan Companies has never been higher

Bluebeam – Solution for a “Jumpstart”

Using Studio for Collaboration

• Detailed

• Visually Communicative

• Timely

• Documented

The Challenge -

A New Tool – Bluebeam Studio

• Customizable

• Flexible

• Accessible

• Real Time

• Reference tool

Create a single source “cloud based” location for the exchange of project ideas.

Design Coordination Meetings Set Up - Bluebeam Session

1. Subject – Concrete Slab Edge Coordination

2. Stake Holders – Architect, Engineer, GC, and Concrete Subcontractor

3. Related Documents – Architectural dimension sheets and details, Structural details, Concrete Shop Drawings

Design Coordination Meetings Execution - Bluebeam Session

1. Conference Callers

2. Live Conference Attendees

3. iPad followers

4. Post Meeting Participation

5. Real time discussion, annotation, and direction

6. Real time documentation of information exchange

7. Follow up review, feedback, and deliverables

Design Coordination Meetings

Design Coordination Meetings

Design Coordination Meetings

• Dissect the Project

• Direct the Project

• Deliver the Project

Proposals, Performance, & Profit

Tools to Speak Your Project’s Language

• Overlays

• Takeoffs

• Bookmarks

• Annotation

Overlays

Takeoff

Takeoff

Takeoff

Bookmark

Proposal

Energy Credit

Scaffold Cost Savings

Field Coordination

Field Coordination

Mock Up Coordination

It’s Not Perfect…

but it works!

Index• Waste

• Culture Change

• Bluebeam @ Ryan

• Studio For Collaboration

• Bluebeam Studio

• Design Coordination

• Proposal, Performance, Profit

• Speak Your Projects Language

• Overlays

• Takeoffs

• Bookmark

• Annotation

• Project Proposals