Plant & Facilities Document Management:
Case Study - Reduced Building Survey Costs

One of the world’s most respected medical research centers devoted to cancer patient care, implemented Enterprise Engineer to manage its facilities document management requirements.

The objective was to meet the demands of expansion and refurbishment of hospital buildings while reducing building surveying costs and increasing productivity. Enterprise Engineer was implemented to manage facilities document management requirements.

Anticipated Benefits of McLaren Solution:

  • Elimination of 60% of rework - over $30million savings
  • Increased accuracy of as-built drawings allowing 72% decrease in labor intensive on-site surveys
  • Salary savings of over $1million per year

Business Challenges:

  • Managing labor intensive building surveys - over $50million invested
  • Controlling 20,000 facilities management drawings dispersed across different systems
  • Multiple project groups concurrently altering building infrastructures
  • Difficulty tracking and understanding current conditions
  • No direct access to as-built drawings for engineering teams
  • Difficulty tracking drawing reviews and project work
  • Geographically distributed engineering workforce
  • Managing complex CAD reference files

McLaren Solution

  • As-built documents and drawings change control process implemented
  • Access to validated as-built documents and drawings for engineers
  • Concurrent engineering functionality
  • Process embedded to manage engineering project handover to operations & maintenance
  • Engineering review and approval business processes providing ability to track and monitor work progress
  • Process to release asset documents to engineering projects for modification