e-Builder: Trusted Insight into Project Performance

Private or public-sector capital project owners have all experienced the common cost overruns, delays, and deficiencies that can plague the projects with long-term impact on the overall health of an organization and its strategic initiatives. However, the good news is these impediments can now be addressed with an innovative and powerful Project Management Information System (PMIS) assisting facility owners to eliminate data silos for complete transparency and control of expenditures. With a vision to help facility owners of schools, hospitals, and government buildings streamline business processes and centralize project information, brothers Ron Antevy, a civil engineer and Jon Antevy, an architect, laid the cornerstone of e-Builder—a robust, cloud-based PMIS—e-Builder Enterprise.

Progress in construction moves at a snail’s pace. “The market we serve is still largely untapped, and our main competitor is still the “old way of doing business”— MS Project, Excel spreadsheets and homegrown databases,” says Antevy, president and CEO, e-Builder. Addressing the need for effective project management, e-Builder Enterprise brings in intelligent work flow and complete transparency to the business leaders and their teams with its comprehensive PMIS that manages all aspects of a program’s projects, from planning, design, procurement to construction and operations of the facility.

With more owners getting active in the planning, design, and construction process, it has created the need for specific tools and technology that serve their unique requirements. e-Builder has leveraged this trend to provide a collaborative, fully integrated approach to managing all projects from planning to occupancy, along with accountability controls and business intelligence reporting. The company’s PMIS has a Building Information Modeling (BIM) module that delivers a virtual representation of the facility an owner expects to get. By playing an active role in reviewing and contributing feedback in an easy to understand 3D context, it minimizes risk and costs of getting wrong results. Being an owner centric PMIS, e-Builder allows owners to have a visual to the performance of activities across the entire program, enabling them to quickly and easily make sound, informed and strategic decisions.