As a 90 year old company, Guido Construction knows what it takes to evolve and stay relevant in a competitive marketplace. From hand-drawn Gantt charts in the 1920s to Building Information Modeling (BIM) today, Guido Construction knows how to continually reinvent itself. So when the iPhone was announced in 2007, they knew it was only a matter of time before they needed to enhance worker productivity through robust, integrated web and mobile applications.
Few industries can rival the complexity, coordination, and documentation requirements of the commercial construction industry. Whether it is managing contracts with dozens of subcontractors or tracking hundreds of potential cost impacts (PCIs), a project’s successful outcome and profitability are directly correlated to the documentation needed to support what was actually accomplished. For Guido Construction, a $100 Million dollar commercial contractor in South Texas, growth and scale brought new challenges in standardization and documentation.
Business Need: As a 90 year old company, Guido Construction knows what it takes to evolve and stay relevant in a competitive marketplace. From hand-drawn Gantt charts in the 1920s to Building Information Modeling (BIM) today, Guido Construction knows how to continually reinvent itself. So when the iPhone was announced in 2007, they knew it was only a matter of time before they needed to enhance worker productivity through robust, integrated web and mobile applications.
Few industries can rival the complexity, coordination, and documentation requirements of the commercial construction industry. Whether it is managing contracts with dozens of subcontractors or tracking hundreds of potential cost impacts (PCIs), a project’s successful outcome and profitability are directly correlated to the documentation needed to support what was actually accomplished. For Guido Construction, a $100 Million dollar commercial contractor in South Texas, growth and scale brought new challenges in standardization and documentation.
Solution: To bring structure and automation to the process, Guido construction engaged Kinetech to build Guido Project Management (Guido PM). Kinetech was selected because of our best-in-class project management knowledge combined with our mastery of the Mendix platform. Mendix was selected because of the ability to iterate using the agile framework to continually refine functionality while reducing delivery risk.
Since launching after only 8-weeks of initial development, the application has continued to evolve. Initial documentation efforts have been enhanced with workflow automation which saves users time while generating a paper trail of how Potential Cost Impacts evolve. This insight was previously unavailable with the word and excel based processes. Guido has even leveraged Kinetech to build timekeeping functions for their shared carpenter and painting resources in addition to mobile capabilities.
Results: Guido Companies was able to recognize a 100% ROI in less than 12 months. The automated reporting, dashboards, and standardization of process allows the management team insight previously unavailable. They can now review projects in a standardized way and preemptively uncover risks before they become issues.
"The transparency and accountability have already created a ROI that exceeded our most optimistic projections, but the flexibility to continue to innovate and experiment with additional services is what has us most excited about our partnership with Kinetech. We’ve been in this business for almost 100 years, establishing relationships with diamond clients (San Antonio Spurs, the Museum of Art, the San Antonio Children’s Museum, the Witte, the McNay Art Museum) and trusted partners like Kinetech will help ensure our next 100 years of success." - Maryanne Guido, CEO | Guido Construction