Case Study: Balfour Beatty streamlines field collaboration and blueprints access with Box

Construction Workers Give FTP the Boot

Balfour Beatty Construction, a company with 500 employees and five divisions across the U.S., was struggling with an outdated and difficult-to-use FTP server. The system had extremely limited storage, which forced its IT department to constantly manage space by asking employees to delete old files. Seeking to improve access to vital documents like blueprints and plans from the field, the company turned to the cloud service Box for a solution.

By implementing Box, the vendor provided a platform that streamlined communication and real-time collaboration for Balfour Beatty's employees and 3,000 external partners. The solution eliminated the storage management headaches, cost less than on-premise options, and significantly improved mobile productivity by allowing workers to access plans directly on iPads and mobile devices at job sites. Box successfully modernized the company's operations, saving time and satisfying both IT staff and field workers.

Balfour Beatty

Rick Roman

Director of IT Operations