Case Study: Balfour Beatty Construction achieves $5M in project savings and seamless nationwide collaboration with Egnyte

Balfour Beatty Saves $5M by Simplifying Project Collaboration

Balfour Beatty US, a leading vertical construction firm, was overwhelmed by growing volumes of project documentation—tens of thousands of pages per job—relying on local file servers and email attachments that created versioning errors, VPN dependence, high hardware and admin costs, slow closeouts and increased risk across large, multi‑team projects.

The company adopted Egnyte’s hybrid content‑services platform (cloud plus on‑prem NAS) to provide VPN‑free, local performance for large files, granular permissions and a single collaboration view for 2,500+ users and external partners. The rollout cut IT overhead and printing/travel, accelerated closeouts, and delivered more than $5M in savings on the DFW terminal project while improving security and project workflows.

Balfour Beatty Construction

Thomas Volmer

Director of IT