Case Study: CHB1, LLC achieves major productivity and profitability gains with ECI BuildTools

BuildTools Delivers Major Productivity and Profitability Gains for Home Builders

Carl Bast, a one‑man construction management department at CHB1, LLC in Mount Prospect, Illinois, oversaw purchasing, permits, change orders, accounting and warranties for up to 80 homes but relied on a costly mix of disconnected software. That fragmented toolset made basic tasks slow and opaque—accountants routinely spent two hours just to determine a project's status.

After switching to BuildTools, Bast gained an integrated, easy‑to‑use platform that supports collaboration, simple data import/export and real‑time project visibility. The change cut status-check time from two hours to 20 seconds, enabled headcount reduction (from 12 to 9), improved cash flow and boosted the company’s bottom line by more than 30%—helping Bast build over 400 homes using the system.