Case Study: Power Design achieves $6.7M/year in savings with PlanGrid Build

Power Design Setting the Standard for Specialty Contractors

Power Design Inc., one of the largest electrical subcontractors in the U.S. specializing in multi‑family projects, faced major plan-management challenges: paper-heavy workflows, slow and error-prone plan uploads, frequent versioning issues, and poor office-field collaboration. A Mobile Subcommittee identified the need for easier access to current drawings, faster uploading and better collaboration, and after extensive vetting they selected a mobile solution to address these gaps.

They piloted PlanGrid on a 461‑unit project, went paperless and issued iPads to field leaders; the app’s real‑time sync, simple drag‑and‑drop uploads, offline mobile access, annotations and photo-based issue tracking solved their core problems. Power Design reported average savings of 8 hours per person per week, $4.3M in annual productivity gains, $2.4M in rework savings and $600K in paper savings, yielding roughly $6.7M net yearly benefit and scaling to 900+ users across 950+ projects.

Power Design

Jenny Schnackenberg

Project Executive