All-in-one construction management boosts builder productivity

For Keith Perez, using Buildxact construction management software to run his 6-year-old remodeling business is about more than providing exceptional customer service, it’s about doing the right thing for him and his family.

“My life prior to Buildxact was all work—no life,” Perez said. “I was easily spending 30 to 40 hours per week, on top of a normal 40-hour work week, trying to create estimates and trying to get estimates to customers in a proper amount of time.”

Now, with Buildxact running on a mobile device or the office desktop, Perez has sped up accurate estimating, improving the level of service provided by his business, TXN Remodeling N Construction.

To begin with, Buildxact offers a digital takeoff tool that is cleanly integrated with estimating and budgeting features, and that proved a big selling point, Perez said.

“Everything is in one location,” he said. “I can see my profit-loss per job, I can see my labor percentage, I can see material lists, I can see purchase orders, I can see everything under a single pane of glass.”

Perez now appreciates the power of Buildxact integration because of the time spent time prior to Buildxact using other construction management software that lacked the capability and flexibility he needed. He says what proved particularly frustrating for him with other software, was the inability to flow takeoffs into detailed estimating.

“Customers don’t want to see a number,” Perez said. “They want to see a list of where their money is going.”

In the past, Perez spent hours and hours at his desk, trying to bid as much as possible. Now, using Buildxact, he can bid more jobs using estimating templates that cover 90% of the work done by TXN Remodeling N Construction.

Getting started with Buildxact is quick and easy

Using Buildxact, Keith and TXN Remodeling N Construction estimator, Stephanie Perez, were up and running quickly thanks, in part, to Buildxact customer service representatives, who are available to answer questions as part of the Buildxact subscriber experience.

“With Buildxact, they have mentors that were able to teach me and guide me and answer my questions that I had along the way,” Stephanie said. “Getting started with Buildxact wasn’t very hard, and whenever you first get started, if you start to get a little bit overwhelmed, they have videos where they show you breakdowns.”

Once a digital project blueprint is uploaded and scaled, Stephanie and Keith make linear and square-foot measurements with a click of a mouse, making takeoffs a easy, predictable step to better estimating.

From there, measurements flow into specific project tasks that are priced based on material, labor and markup. A detailed estimate quickly resolves whether a project falls within a customer’s budget. After a project is underway, Stephanie and Keith track actual costs to what was budgeted from the estimate to ensure the project stays on track.

“If I don’t know how much money I’m spending on a job, I don’t know if I’m quoting properly,” Keith said.

Buildxact premade templates also make it easy to include all the little things that can cost the company money and profit down the road. Buildxact works with many major material suppliers and dealers, including Home Depot.

“With the templates and the assemblies already there, I save a ton of time because I don’t have to remember did I include silicone, did I include baseboards, did I include certain small things you don’t think cost a lot…if you forget about it, it is a huge, drastic loss over time,” Stephanie said.

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How Buildxact improves profitability over time

Integrated material supplier pricing has helped TXN Remodeling N Construction guarantee they have the latest, most accurate pricing, giving them the confidence to know their quote is not only competitive but will also turn a fair profit. With Buildxact, hunting down dealer price catalogs is a thing of the past because pricing can be setup from major dealers, like Home Depot, within the estimating tool.

“It allows me to keep my numbers accurate,” Keith said. “It prevents me from quoting $4.99 for a 2×4 when the 2X4 went up to $6.99 overnight. It also allows me to refresh my estimates if I provided an estimate 30 days ago.”

Because Buildxact estimating provides detailed reporting, Keith no longer has to sift through piles of receipts to figure out which material purchases belong to a project.

“The actual costings is a huge tool for me,” he said. “This way I can track the progress of a job and also track the expense.”

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