Case Study: The Christman Company achieves improved productivity and real-time collaboration with PlanGrid Build

How to Improve Construction Productivity with Technology

The Christman Company is a century-old national construction firm (founded 1894, ~$700M revenue, ENR-ranked) that faces the industry-wide productivity challenge of compressed schedules, poor communication, and inefficient document and submittal workflows. Senior Project Superintendent Bill Scanlon points to delays caused by disconnected teams, repetitive review cycles, and uneven technology adoption among subcontractors and some field staff as core obstacles to getting projects done on time and with high quality.

Christman tackled these issues by embracing mobile technology—tablets, PlanGrid and similar field apps—to enable real-time markups, photos, daily reporting, and collaborative review across dispersed teams. The result: more work performed directly in the field, faster and fewer submittal cycles, clearer communication, better QA/QC, and demonstrable project wins (e.g., Jackson National HQ), with ongoing gains as users receive exposure and training to boost adoption.

Christman Company

Bill Scanlon

Senior Project Superintendent