Want to make your digital processes up to five times faster? Read more about how Ridge & Partners energised their projects with Bluebeam’s software
Ridge & Partners is a leading built environment consultancy with over 1000 employees across 11 offices. While their size means a broad range of expertise for clients, it also means that small increases in efficiency can lead to major increases in profitability.
With Bluebeam, Ridge & Partners found the perfect digital solution. Whether working remotely, in the office or on site, the entire company now works more efficiently. Marking up, measuring, and keeping track of drawings is faster, estimation errors have plummeted, and collaboration is effortless.
Here are five more ways Bluebeam helped Ridge & Partners succeed:
1. Managing project information
Ridge & Partners used to print, annotate and scan every project document by hand. This was both time-consuming and prone to errors.
Now, everyone easily manages, edits and organises PDFs in one place with Bluebeam, leading to a five fold increase in efficiency. It’s also helped them move towards a truly paper-free office, saving the company thousands of pounds in printing costs every year.
As Associate Rhys Griffiths says, Bluebeam is “the go-to tool for us. We use it every day, and it helps us to work efficiently and securely.”
2. Making digital transformation easy
Embedding new software into a business can be taxing. But overnight, Bluebeam replaced manual tasks with a faster, digital alternative. Engineers and designers could create and amend drawings together on the fly, and design reviews were completed 50% faster.
As efficiency skyrocketed instantly, getting buy-in and adoption for Bluebeam across Ridge & Partners’ 1000+ team was easier than ever.
3. Boosting accuracy
Another win for Ridge & Partners was increased accuracy, using Bluebeam to easily mark up, measure and annotate drawings as a team.
For comparing drawings, Ridge & Partners uses Bluebeam’s Overlay and Compare tool which makes it easy to see even the smallest of differences. In complex projects with hundreds of drawings to check, this saves the company days.
4. Reducing risk in QC
As soon as a project kicks off, Ridge & Partners uses Bluebeam to easily survey and mark up floor plans. Down the line, the QA team uses the same drawings as a reference point, increasing efficiency and reducing risk with a digital audit trail to check.
Many of the team also use Bluebeam to quickly create professional designs themselves, instead of relying on an overloaded technical team. For every drawing, Ridge & Partners saves two to three days.
5. A professional approach
A final benefit for Ridge & Partners is consistent, professional and presentable documents. Teams can also use Bluebeam to accurately draw up designs in meetings.
When Ridge & Partners switched to Bluebeam, the difference was so dramatic that many clients thought their drawings had been done in AutoCAD or Revit. All without needing the team to be proficient in CAD.
Curious about how your business could benefit?
Read more about Ridge & Partner’s experience here, or learn more about Bluebeam’s efficiency software solutions here.
