Case Study: Generation Homes achieves 38% growth and 15–25% faster build times with BuilderMT

Becoming More Efficient Through Wireless Technology

Generation Homes is a high-end production and custom homebuilder in Fresno, CA, with 45 employees, 60 subcontractors and a product line that includes 25,000 buyer options across its models. Rapid growth (38% year‑over‑year to 200 new homes) and tightly controlled bank cash draws exposed a key challenge: managing complex scheduling, payments and field progress with slow, manual percent‑complete validation that constrained cash flow and delayed starts.

Generation deployed an integrated solution—BuilderMT Workflow Management Suite tied into Sage Timberline accounting/estimating and Sprint BlackBerry wireless devices—so supervisors can update job progress in real time from the field, automatically update schedules, trigger payments and inform the bank’s draw process. The result: payment cycles moved to twice monthly, construction time fell from 130–145 days to an average 110 days (15–25% faster), project budgets dropped by over $480,000, and the company unlocked working capital to support faster starts and continued growth.

Generation Homes