Southern Methodist University (SMU) has selected e-Builder Enterprise as their university-wide capital project management platform. e-Builder will provide SMU with a way to reduce cost and schedule risk across their entire capital program and streamline existing processes to increase efficiency.
The SMU Office of Planning, Design, and Construction (PDC) sought to centralize how cost data is managed on one secure and auditable database. By having information entered and maintained in one location, the team will help eliminate the time wasted compiling project information such as cost and changes. The integrated workflow capabilities will also shorten lengthy approval processes and keep the project moving. While the PDC team had well-defined processes in place, they also sought to improve productivity by reducing the time required to execute contract approvals and change orders. The integration between the forms and cost modules then provide a full picture of all project commitments and a more accurate projected cost to complete.The integrated reporting capabilities will help provide stakeholders with visibility into up-to-the-minute project status reports. In the past, generating these reports required a staff member to manually compile information from all project managers onto a spreadsheet. Planning future projects based on current capital spent was difficult because the information was outdated by the time the data was captured in the reports. With the integration of e-Builder, reports can be accessed with a couple of mouse clicks or through email, with assurance that the information is up to date.
