Case Study: IES Residential achieves 75% growth and doubled job capacity with ECI Software Solutions' Bolt

How This Electrical Contracting Firm Grew By 75% With Little Additional Headcount

IES Residential, a national electrical contracting firm, was struggling with fragmented paper-based processes—multiple 3-ring binders, yellow notepads and 6–10 separate schedules—that caused missed appointments, backcharges, wasted time matching manpower and materials, and inefficiencies during rapid growth. To address this, they turned to ECI Software Solutions and implemented its Bolt construction scheduling software.

ECI Software Solutions’ Bolt centralized scheduling and documentation on iPads, automated communications and notifications, and provided real-time updates and photo/document tracking. As a result, IES Residential grew workload capacity from about 2,748 jobs to a projected 4,800, increased revenue by 75% over five years without a proportional headcount increase, consolidated 10 schedules into one calendar, and eliminated many dry runs, duplicate orders, and backcharge disputes.

IES Residential

Brian Hartley

Division Manager