Safeway finds building efficiency on the web
Use of a web-based building project management from Autodesk Inc. has reduced hard-copy plan distribution costs by 50% and shortened the design phase of a chainwide remodeling program by a third, The U.K.’s Safeway Stores plc reports.
Over the past two years, Safeway has updated and remodeled all 480 stores using Autodesk’s Buzzsaw, web-based project management product. The initiative has increased the design department’s workload from 20 construction projects a year to 140 remodeling projects.
"Two weeks into our evaluation trials for collaboration services the superiority of Autodesk Buzzsaw became so apparent that we immediately rolled it out to all other projects," said Paul Cox, design controller for Safeway Stores. "With Buzzsaw we reduced our hard copy distribution costs by more than 50%--which alone would have paid for the system for a year. Although it is difficult to accurately measure the impact on project implementation timescales, we intuitively know that the building process is more efficient with Buzzsaw simply because of the faster speed of information delivery such as design changes. We have achieved an extraordinary throughput of projects over the last 18 months; without the use of Buzzsaw this would have been very difficult to accomplish."
Autodesk hosts the project management application on its servers. Those involved in the project access the plans through a browser.
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