Case Study: Burnham Nationwide achieves faster permitting, reduced risk, and streamlined document control with Fieldwire by Hilti

Burnham Nationwide - Customer Case Study

Burnham Nationwide is a nationwide team of permit expediters and code consultants that manages code compliance and permit approvals for hundreds of projects each year. Facing the challenge of coordinating work across six offices, standardizing document control, and digitizing tens of thousands of plans (each project containing 25–250 unique sheets), Burnham adopted Fieldwire by Hilti’s field management software in 2015 to centralize drawings, plans, and permit documentation.

Using Fieldwire by Hilti, Burnham creates 800+ Fieldwire projects annually (800+ in 2018 alone), standardizes sheet naming with batch editing, stores unlimited plans, and integrates the platform with its ERP via Fieldwire’s open API. The solution streamlined uploads and reviews, automatically flagged corrupted files, reduced rework and risk, enabled a single coordinator to manage many projects efficiently, and gave clients a digital library for instant plan access—saving time and improving collaboration across projects.

Burnham Nationwide

Carson Kyhl

President