Prolog Software Increases Efficiency and Provides Competitive Advantage for Owners and Contractors in Southeastern U.S.
Meridian Systems’ construction project management software enables more effective and consistent project management; users able to double workload, improve service quality
FOLSOM, Calif. (May 17, 2005) — Meridian Systems® and Hardhat Technologies announce successful implementations of Meridian’s project management software Prolog® Manager with three key organizations: The Public Building Authority of the County of Knoxville and the City of Knoxville, Tenn. (PBA), BE&K Building Group and Fortune-Johnson General Contractors. Using Prolog, both PBA and Fortune-Johnson have increased their project bandwidth by double—now enabling project managers to each manage 10-13 active projects per year, up from 2-3 projects prior to implementing Prolog.
“Prolog allows us to centralize all of our information and standardize the way we manage our projects. Our processes are streamlined and our project managers can handle more work—10 more projects per year than they previously could,” said Blaise Burch, PBA director of Property Development and Information Technology. PBA uses Prolog on all projects valued at more than $500,000—including libraries, senior centers and other city and county facilities paid for with public funds. This fall, Burch and his department will oversee construction of the $28 million Downtown Knoxville Station (transit center), and a $10 million Downtown Cinema.
General contractor Fortune-Johnson, views Prolog’s increase to efficiency as a way to improve service to clients. “Lots of contractors can build, so competitive advantage comes down to the service you provide to your clients,” commented George Vomvolakis, Fortune-Johnson director of Field Operations. “Prolog will allow us to take on more clients and more jobs—about 12 jobs per year—but, more importantly Prolog enables us to better manage each job.
“We can quickly gauge our performance, look at the total number of outstanding RFIs, automatically generate project reports, or easily monitor daily construction tasks. Prolog allows us to keep our finger on the pulse of each project and not lose sight of project quality,” finished Vomvolakis. Fortune-Johnson is one of the premier multi-family facility and community builders in the southeast, having built the luxury Westchester at Dunwoody apartment community and The Carlton Condominiums (both in northern Georgia).
For BE&K Building Group, formerly Suitt Construction, Prolog provides unparalleled construction-specific project management that saves time for project managers and field supervisors. According to Scott Mikula, Prolog Administrator for BE&K Building, “We’ve evaluated many of the other well-known construction project management systems, but none are as flexible and feature rich as Prolog. Prolog is rooted in the important processes for construction: document management, cost management, collaboration and field administration. It automates those processes, centralizes the data created from them, and makes collaboration with subcontractors, architects and other team members easier and faster.”
“PBA, BE&K Building Group and Fortune-Johnson are among the thousands of construction-related companies using Prolog to increase efficiency,” said Jerry Helms, president for Hardhat Technologies. “Providing local implementation, customization and training services on Prolog for these three organizations and hundreds of others in the southeastern United States, Hardhat has seen repeatedly that Prolog provides companies with the most complete set of construction project management tools. Prolog enables owners and contractors of any size to better manage the building process.”
For information about Prolog and software selection, implementation, customization and training services offered by Hardhat Technologies, visit www.meridiansystems.com/pr051705.
About Hardhat Technologies
Hardhat offers only the leading
business management solutions to all segments of the construction marketplace.
We facilitate the delivery of business solutions with only our customers'
interests in mind. Our staff is highly experienced in technology implementations
and will offer complete support integrating MPS applications into your
business processes. For more information on Hardhat Technologies and its
services, visit www.hardhattechnologies.com.
About Meridian Systems
Meridian Systems provides enterprise solutions that optimize the plan, build
and operate phases of real estate, construction and other physical infrastructure
initiatives. Meridian solutions are used by more than 8,500 of today's large
building owners, government agencies, and engineering and construction firms
to improve top-line revenue growth while reducing their capital construction
costs. Meridian uniquely provides both traditional software and hosted ASP
solutions, and ranks as a market share leader in project management software
among general contractors with over $100 million in revenue*. Meridian has
an impressive track record of revenue growth over its 11-year history, and
has been repeatedly recognized as a Constructech Hottest Technology company.
Meridian is headquartered in Folsom, Calif. For more information, call Meridian
at (800) 850 2660, or go to www.meridiansystems.com/pr051705.
*Statistics excerpted from CFMA's 2004 Information Technology Survey for the Construction Industry, fourth edition with the permission of the Construction Financial Management Association, Princeton, NJ, (609) 452 8000.
Sue Watkins, Director of Marketing
swatkins@meridiansystems.com
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