{"id":2070950,"date":"2023-04-26T15:20:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/?p=2070950"},"modified":"2023-04-26T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T20:20:31","slug":"contractors-from-the-united-states-and-canada-earn-b2w-software-innovation-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/contractors-from-the-united-states-and-canada-earn-b2w-software-innovation-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractors from the United States and Canada Earn B2W Software Innovation Awards<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

B2W Software<\/a>, a Trimble company and leading provider of heavy construction management software, presented its 2023 Innovation Awards to four contractors during its annual User Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Superior Construction based in Florida and Indiana and Feller Enterprises in Utah were recognized in the Best ROI with the B2W Platform <\/em>category for success with multiple applications of the B2W Platform<\/a>. Ajax Paving Industries based in Florida and Michigan won the Best ROI with a Single B2W Application<\/em> award for results with B2W Maintain<\/a>. The award for Most Innovative New Use of B2W Software<\/em> went to Jakes Construction based in British Columbia, Canada for a creative use of the B2W Track<\/a> application for daily performance tracking.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Travis Snow of Feller Enterprises in Utah accepted the 2023 Best ROI with the B2W Platform award for the company\u2019s success with the unified B2W Platform.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The unified B2W Platform includes applications for estimating, field tracking, scheduling, fleet maintenance and data capture and reporting. B2W has recognized 24 contractors since the origin of the Innovation Awards program in 2017. Judges select winners from applications submitted by contractors throughout North America.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Superior Construction demonstrated its integration of B2W Estimate, Track, Maintain and Inform as well as the Viewpoint Vista system for accounting in its award application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve simplified operations, eliminated a lot of paper and saved countless hours spent on redundancies and double entry of data,\u201d according to Superior learning and development manager Jessica Paske. \u201cImproved accuracy in tracking hours, production and equipment utilization enhances our maintenance program and saves our projects money on a daily basis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dan Maitland of Ajax Paving (middle) with B2W\u2019s John Kane and Jennifer Angrisano (left to right) accept the 2023 Best ROI with a Single B2W Application award for the company\u2019s success with B2W Maintain.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Replacement of Excel spreadsheets with B2W Estimate and Track was a \u201cgame changer\u201d at Feller Enterprises, according to estimator and project manager Travis Snow. Snow says the B2W Platform allows the sitework contractor to now review project performance daily at the production account level and to easily review actual past performance and production rates when putting together new bids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re bidding much more accurately and faster than with Excel and seeing profits stay very close to what we estimated,\u201d says Snow. \u201cOur foremen like to look at the summary in the B2W Track app daily to make sure they are staying as close as they can to the estimated cost and plan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Steven Klaassen and Derek Sterkenburg of Jakes Construction (left to right) accept the 2023 Innovation Award for the company\u2019s unique use of B2W Track for performance tracking and reporting.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Ajax Paving earned the innovation award based on its success in working closely with B2W to customize and deploy B2W Maintain to improve equipment maintenance processes, costs and uptime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur mission was to move from reactive to proactive maintenance and we have fully demonstrated the power and capabilities of B2W Maintain,\u201d says Ajax fleet manager Dan Maitland. A 29 percent increase in accuracy for planning maintenance, a 31 percent reduction in priority-one emergency work orders and an 11 percent reduction in direct repair costs were among the results highlighted in the application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B2W recognized Jakes Construction for creative use of B2W Track to meet daily performance reporting requirements of a three-year pipeline project in western Canada. Instead of re-entering data from B2W Track into complex spreadsheets originally required by the project owner and general contractors, Jakes demonstrated that customized reporting directly from B2W Track could provide the information in a more concise and user-friendly format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis was a monumental turning point,\u201d according to Derek Sterkenburg, an estimator at Jakes. \u201cWe tripled our monthly volume and revenue on the project while reducing administrative time by 66 percent. We estimate that we have saved more than 2,000 hours of administrative time to date.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

B2W Software, a Trimble company and leading provider of heavy construction management software, presented its 2023 Innovation Awards to four contractors during its annual User Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in March. Superior Construction based in Florida and Indiana and Feller Enterprises in Utah were recognized in the Best ROI with the B2W Platform category for success […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4972,"featured_media":2070958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[11121,1147],"tags":[45942,33710,45943,45945,45939,14035,45944,45940,25393,45941,409],"acf":[],"views":23,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/unnamed-2023-04-26T151217.130.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2070950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2070958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csengineermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}