Banner Health Leveraging Technology for Visibility, Control and Growth

"Quite frankly, I couldn’t function in my job without a system like e-Builder."VP of Design and ConstructionKip Edwards

Leveraged $70 million in savings from active projects to fund a new cancer center and identified and reallocated an additional $22 million.

Challenges

• Inability to accurately gauge financial and schedule performance across entire portfolio.

• Data buried in outdated spreadsheets and differing reporting methods.

• Limited visibility and cost control between construction management and accounting practices.

Solution

• Use construction program management software to align construction management and reporting practices and improve program/project visibility and cost control.

Results

• Complete visibility of all construction program costs and schedules.

• Ability to accurately track spending, forecast savings, and mine money from active projects to fund new work.

• Leveraged $70 million in savings from active projects to fund a new cancer center.

• Identified and reallocated an additional $22 million.

• Enabled an efficient cost forecasting process (eliminated the chance of surprise overruns).

• Easy and accurate real-time reporting.

• Confidence to meet ambitious growth goals.