Case Study: City of Las Vegas achieves faster, paperless plan review — halves review steps and saves $600K/year with Bluebeam Software, Inc.'s Revu

The City of Las Vegas Doubles Down on Digital Transformation with Bluebeam Revu

The City of Las Vegas, which processes roughly 15,000–20,000 permits a year, struggled with slow, paper-based plan reviews that required sequential reviews by multiple disciplines, lengthy routing for final signatures, scattered storage, and a workflow that could not support remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By deploying Bluebeam Revu (with Studio) integrated into its permitting system, the city moved to concurrent electronic reviews, standardized markups, and remote collaboration. The change cut the paper review process from eight steps to four, saved weeks per review, eliminated most printing and storage costs (about $100 saved per submittal, roughly $600,000 annually), produced project-level savings (one hospital project saved $4,930), and allowed staff consolidation and faster permit turnaround.

City of Las Vegas

Michael Cunningham

Deputy Director