iPad. For the office that doesn’t yet have doors, walls or roofs.

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Rogers-O’Brien has been constructing buildings in Texas since 1969. Today, Apple hardware and software play an important role in improving communications onsite and reducing expensive rework. Where superintendents used to carry heavy reams of paper up and down stairs and use cranes to lift plan tables to each job site, now they carry an iPad. And where different trades like electrical, mechanical and landscape specialists required access to over 10,000?bits of different information, now they just open a few powerful iPadOS apps. iPad also captures job site information like never before, with both the built-in camera and the ability to control camera drones across the construction site.

At a glance

400+Employees
50KHours saved by
going paperless
US$1.8MIn printing costs saved

iPad. The most powerful tool
on or off the belt.
When there’s no elevator, there’s no substitute for great communication.

Information

Powerful apps and long battery life make iPad essential.

Information

On the job site, the iPadOS Procore app makes it easy to access blueprints. Expanding on the drawings, Autodesk BIM 360 Glue adds contextual information like light analysis and manufacturer’s details. And Autodesk AutoCAD helps superintendents confirm complicated designs onscreen.

Collaboration

iPad makes working together in the field easy.

Collaboration

If a general contractor can show a future tenant of the building what their floor will be like, they can tailor construction to make the space more useful in the end. With the Augment app, relationship managers can use augmented reality with stakeholders to visualise the placement of design elements.

Capture

To see behind walls,
use an iPad.

Capture

Using the iPad camera, foremen can capture a frame to reference later after the walls go up. With the Job Walk 360 app, project engineers can use a 360-degree camera to capture progress of the entire site, helpful for historical archiving. With the Drone Deploy app, iPad can control a drone to capture aerial views of the construction project. And with the Blue Iris app, superintendents can control live cameras to watch for safety issues.

Results

Construction rework. Reworked.

Powering drones and 360-degree cameras onsite saves US$500,000 per?year.

iPad has reduced the rework budget to below the 7?per?cent industry average.

Since 2012, iPad has helped enable the company to scale, more than tripling its annual revenue to over US$705 million in 2020.

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