Case Study: KRT Building Consultants achieves streamlined QA, faster issue resolution, and cost savings with PlanGrid Build

How KRT Building Consultants Excelled in Construction Quality Management

KRT Building Consultants is a small, Auckland-based surveying and construction consulting firm with over 70 years’ experience that was struggling with a labour‑intensive, paper‑heavy “camera and site notes” process. Manually attaching photos and documents to issues made it slow and error‑prone to capture defects, create clear reports, and distribute actionable information to contractors, engineers and clients in real time.

KRT adopted PlanGrid (Autodesk Construction Cloud) to run tablets on-site, log issues, link photos to exact locations on plans, and add markups and commentary for fast stakeholder communication. The result: big time and cost savings, faster turnarounds, and higher-quality handovers — KRT has tracked 3,000+ tasks/issues, 700+ annotations and 4,000 photos, increased field productivity for its three‑person team, and even inspired a contractor to purchase the software.

KRT Building Consultants

Keith Tickner

Director