Case Study: Building Engineering Company achieves 1–1.5 hours saved per house inspection with Alpha Software

Principal Engineer Digitizes Home Energy Rating Process, Dramatically Reducing Front-End Inspection and Back-Office Processing Time

Building Engineering Company, a residential and commercial building science and energy-efficiency firm, was hampered by paper-based home energy inspections that forced technicians to capture large amounts of data in difficult field conditions and spend 1–2 hours per inspection on back-office data entry. Existing mobile apps couldn’t meet requirements for offline use, barcode scanning, photo annotation and speech-to-text, so the company needed a fast, reliable way to digitize inspections and integrate captured data with corporate systems.

Principal Engineer Darol Harrison used Alpha TransForm to quickly build a smartphone-optimized inspection app with offline support, auto-population, image and mapping capture, and system integration. The app boosted inspection throughput and data accuracy, made data immediately available to back-end systems, and delivered total time savings of 1–1.5 hours per house (about 30 minutes onsite plus 30–60 minutes office), an estimated 40 man-hours saved per week, and new recurring-revenue opportunities.

Building Engineering Company

Darol Harrison

Principal Engineer and CEO