Construction Project Management for Architecture, Engineering and Construction

Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) Sector

Meridian Systems provides construction project management and Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions for companies in the AEC sector, including:

General Contractors/Construction Managers
Subcontractors
Program Management/Design Build/EPC Firms

Infrastructure-intensive industries rely on engineering and construction firms to successfully deliver capital projects. Today’s engineering and construction firms provide daily planning, design, engineering, procurement and construction services on a wide range infrastructure projects. Program management firms also must provide top notch service to their building owner clients by controlling project costs and schedules, managing design deliverables and approvals, and communicating real-time project performance.

Managing project scope, budgets and schedules effectively is paramount to the success or failure of these service-oriented businesses. Meridian offers construction project management and Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions to help you succeed.

What Customers Are Saying

When you're dealing with a $26-billion program, information overload can make it difficult to spot problems. The ability within Proliance to review and manage by exception is unsurpassed.

Kim McAvoy Associate Vice President, PMIS Solutions Team
AECOM
Prolog opens the door to new opportunities. And there are definitely jobs that we’ve been able to pursue simply because we have Prolog in place.

Dan Kinsman, Director of IT
Christa Construction, LLC
Prolog covers everything. And for the price, it’s the most comprehensive, capable system Enthalpy could find in the market.

David Shackley, Project Systems Engineer
Enthalpy
Our Prolog reports are an excellent communication tool during owner and subcontractor meetings. We use documents like RFI logs, submittal logs and change order reports to discuss outstanding items so we can move the project forward.

Leann Sehon, Director of Administration
Harris Construction Co., Inc.
Before, we had so many versions of a document or drawing that it was really time-consuming to ensure that we had the latest revision. That issue has been eliminated. By tracking everything in Prolog, we quickly know, with certainty, which document or drawing is the most current.

Christy Eddington, Project Controls Manager
HDR Design-Build, Inc.
The OBAs within Prolog Converge allow simple applications like Microsoft Excel to be used as an interface to Prolog. Anyone who can use Excel can now use Prolog on our projects, which cuts our training costs in half.

Shane Thomas, Senior Project Services Manager
IMTC-MEI
The efficiencies gained from using Prolog have already saved us about 15 percent of our time, which allows us to be more proactive with project management from a cost side. We don’t have to go three or four places just to write an RFI. We now have time to look at the financials and address issues early. That’s huge for us.

Jeremy Roos, San Diego Project Operations Manager
Neal Electric Corporation
Now that most of the TIC project teams have implemented Prolog Manager, they cannot imagine working without it.

Paul Mitchell, Senior Project Controls Coordinator
TIC
In 2004 our work volume was about $420M and 2008 is projected to be closer to $800M. With help from Prolog, we’re on track to nearly double our volume in just four years – and we’re operating with roughly the same number of project management support staff!

Frank Carlson, Director of Business Applications
Adolfson & Peterson Construction
Prolog WebSite drastically shortens the RFI process by making it possible to complete an RFI in a number of hours instead of a couple of days.

Brooks Williams, Director of Project Controls
Alberici Corporation
The Wilpinjong project was a prime example of us utilizing Prolog for the final retrieval of money for work changes. The client had basically forgotten about a number of changes that they had authorized, but we had every field directive documented. Prolog allowed us to quickly resolve the dispute to everyone’s satisfaction and collect the additional AUD $2M in charges.

Chris Frost, Sales & Marketing Manager
H&M Engineering and Construction
Prolog has increased our profit margins on projects by at least five to seven percent – if not 10 percent. That’s a great return on investment.

Julio Sepulveda, International Projects Director
Design Built Management
ProjectTalk helps Haskell deliver a superior product through better management of quality issues. Instead of repeating the mistakes made on previous projects, this data helps us understand how to prevent them and what areas need extra vigilance to meet our high standards for quality.

Susan McDowell, Manager – ConstructionTechnology Application
The Haskell Company
Our lean modular construction process is what allows our revenues to grow and Prolog has become an ingrained part of that lean culture. I don’t think that we would have been able to grow our revenue base by 166 percent in one year without Prolog!

Amy Kulka-Marks, Executive Vice President of Operations
Kullman Buildings Corp.
By e-mailing correspondence like submittals, requests for information and potential change orders directly out of Prolog, we’ve increased the productivity of each person. If you figure in our billable rates by the hour, we are saving approximately $1000 per team per month on this one task. That’s a substantial cost savings at the completion of the project.

Tim Saenz, Project Manager
Legacy Building Services, Inc.
With Prolog, we were able to save our client approximately $500K by reducing the cost for change orders. I can’t imagine being able to do that with any other program.

Lisa Landis, Marketing Coordinator
Swinerton Management & Consulting
The standardized format and centralized data repository of information within Prolog increased our productivity by 10-20 percent compared to our previous methods of project management.

Brian Makowski, Director of Engineering
Torcon, Inc.
Throughout the job, every piece of project information is being carefully tucked away. At the end of the job, if there is a document request from an owner, a warranty issue or a potential litigation situation, we have all of our documents in one secure, searchable location.

Craig Damos, President and CEO
The Weitz Company
Throughout the job, every piece of project information is being carefully tucked away. At the end of the job, if there is a document request from an owner, a warranty issue or a potential litigation situation, we have all of our documents in one secure, searchable location.

Julie Adler, Application Support Analyst
Barton Malow Company
By standardizing on Prolog software, we have the ability to quickly access project information to make more effective decisions. This visibility reduces the risk of cost overruns and demonstrates to our clients that we’re on top of things.

Mike Pinelli, Project Executive
Catalyst Construction Group
Having Prolog has significantly increased our business efficiencies. We now have a centralized project data repository and a single database for project information. Prolog has unified our resources and allows us to be consistent with our project management processes. This greatly benefits CWCI.

Peter Davidson, Project Manager
Coakley & Williams
By standardizing our project management, Costanza Builders personnel are more productive, which contributes to revenue growth. The outcome is more effective project management. Now our managers are using their time to manage projects rather than look for missing pieces of information. By using Prolog, we can handle more with less effort.

Nancy Gendron, Operations Manager
Costanza Builders
By standardizing on Prolog software, we have been able to manage jobs more efficiently and spend more time on actual construction. Prolog positively affects company growth and sales.

Julie Meeker, Project Engineer
Hunt Construction Group
Prolog has delivered improved data intelligence and better productivity, which has helped push revenues ahead of quarterly projections for 2006. By standardizing on Prolog, we have been able to increase our revenue without increasing support staff.

John Breidenbach, Information System Manager
Roebbelen Contracting, Inc.
There is a significant advantage to using the industry leading project management system. We can go to an owner and explain why our standardization on Prolog is of benefit to them. Prolog allows us to build better, faster and cheaper.

Mark Federle, CIO
The Weitz Company
Over the last 10 years, we have grown our revenues almost 600 percent and we continue to grow at an average rate of 20-25 percent each year. Prolog contributes to that growth by reducing our operating costs through increased efficiencies. At this point, it’s hard for us to imagine working without it.

Robert Herron, Project Manager
Q&D Construction

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