Case Study: Rudolph and Sletten achieves 30% faster preconstruction reviews with Bluebeam Software, Inc.

Rudolph and Sletten Completes Preconstruction Reviews 30% Faster by Using Bluebeam Studio for Online Collaboration

Rudolph and Sletten, a California-based general and engineering contractor with over 50 years’ experience and more than 95% repeat business, led preconstruction for the 700,000 sq. ft. San Diego Central Courthouse. The distributed preconstruction team needed to produce detailed constructability reviews at multiple document milestones, a process that traditionally required large-scale reproduction and shipping, extensive travel and meeting time, and manual compilation of comments that often duplicated effort.

The firm adopted Bluebeam Revu and Bluebeam Studio to host drawing sets in online sessions where all reviewers could mark up the same PDFs concurrently; comments were then exported to an Excel log and sent to the design team. This approach cut review time from 6.6 to 4.6 weeks (30% faster), reduced reproduction/shipping costs by $2,250 (63%), and eliminated dozens of man-hours (30 hours assembling comments, 25 hours of duplicated reviews, and 16 hours of presentation time), while improving collaboration, estimate accuracy, and overall comment quality.

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