Case Study: Port of Olympia eliminates spreadsheets and speeds project workflows with Trimble e-Builder

Port of Olympia Teams with e-Builder to Eliminate Spreadsheets

The Port of Olympia, which operates the airport, marina, seaport and real estate divisions for Thurston County, was hampered by a proliferation of spreadsheets and manual database entry. Finding and retrieving information was slow and error-prone, and the Port lacked clear visibility into budgets and commitments across project phases.

Implementing e-Builder centralized documents, contracts, billings and budgets in a single system with automated workflows and phase-based budget tracking. The result: a 70% drop in status inquiries to contract administrators, a 50% reduction in time spent entering project data, document retrieval under 3 minutes, average submittal reviews in seven days or less, and the elimination of multiple spreadsheets and an Access database.

Port of Olympia

Linda Shilley

Contract Administrator