Case Study: Allen Edwin Homes achieves 680 starts with a three-person estimating and purchasing team with BuilderMT

Allen Edwin Homes Manages 680 Starts With Just Three People in Estimating and Purchasing, and Two in Drafting

Allen Edwin Homes is a rapidly growing regional builder (ranked #65 on the 2015 Builder Top‑100) that manages roughly 600–680 closings annually across six regions with just 100 employees. Their business model includes 59 floorplans, roughly 1,000 options per model selected from a large design center, and the need to run lean while reducing cycle times and eliminating guesswork in estimating, options pricing and purchasing.

They implemented an integrated software stack — Vertex BD models, CG Visions’ BIM Pipeline, BuilderMT, Sales Simplicity and Punchlist Manager — to extract product data from BIM models and automatically drive detailed take‑offs and purchase orders in BuilderMT. The result: 99% of plans in BIM, automated lot‑specific, option‑isolated estimates, the ability to process 680 starts with just three people in estimating/purchasing and two in drafting, and variance purchase orders under 2%, dramatically improving pricing accuracy and scalability.

Allen Edwin Homes

Matt Robbins

CAD & Estimating Manager