St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. was recently named a 2014 Vision Award winner by Constructech magazine. This year’s recognition marks the eighth time McCarthy has been honored by the construction technology publication in the last 14 years.
The Constructech Vision Awards honor companies that have stayed up-to-date on the latest trends and products. Companies eligible to submit for this competition include residential construction, commercial and heavy construction businesses, professionals in all trades, architectural and engineering firms, corporate owners, facility management companies, government agencies and land developers.
McCarthy received a Silver Award in the Builder/GC Commercial More than $500 million category for its use of Autodesk in a companywide implementation of the BIM 360 Field tool. The majority of McCarthy’s quality and safety processes happen in the field, outside the jobsite office. With this in mind, the company sought out several construction-focused mobile + cloud technologies that aligned with the company’s needs. After a four-month parallel evaluation of several options, McCarthy chose Autodesk’s BIM 360 Field (formerly Vela Systems).
A team of McCarthy deployment managers drove adoption of the BIM 360 Field tool across the organization. More than 230 active users are now using the system, with another 1700-plus receiving reports. Since its implementation, more than 9,000 quality- and safety-related verifications have been performed and more than 68,000 field issues have been captured and efficiently resolved.
