Case Study: Granite Construction achieves reduced rework and boosted field productivity with PlanGrid Build

How Granite Construction Reduces Rework with Better Field Collaboration and Communication

Granite Construction, a heavy‑civil general contractor, faced complex coordination challenges on the $150M Caltrans Highway 99 Realignment in Fresno — moving miles of highway, relocating streets and utilities, and replacing bridges while managing hundreds of field workers, inspectors and thousands of drawings across day and night shifts. Keeping plan revisions current and communicating quickly in the field was critical to avoid costly errors and rework.

Granite deployed PlanGrid within Autodesk Construction Cloud, issued mobile devices, and ran regular field training so teams could access live revisions, overlay sheet versions, receive change notifications, and work offline. The solution sped decision‑making, caught a $30–40K potential mistake, saved the lead engineer hours each week among 2,100+ sheets, and on other projects produced up to $500K in rework savings and about five hours per person per week — improving cost, schedule and quality.

Granite Construction

Randy Lucchesi

Lead Project Engineer