Seeing the Big Picture with Trimble Unity Construct: Oregon Health & Sciences University

Goal

The Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) capital program needed a way to document projects across sites and keep meticulous financial records to demonstrate a net-zero outcome each year.

Challenge

OHSU’s multi-pronged program includes sustaining and capital projects on both the academic and healthcare sides of the organization, so they needed to bring together data from different sites and people.

Solution

Adoption of Trimble Unity Construct, powered by e-Builder with buy-in from key stakeholders allowed OHSU to digitize and streamline processes such as contracts, change orders, invoice approvals and RFIs.

“Our project development and approval process is part of our project initiation. We also have closeout processes to help run through checklists and make sure everything is buttoned up and completed on a project.”

—Tyler Harding, System/Application Analyst, Design and Construction | OHSU

Ongoing Benefits

Today, OHSU continues to bring on more Trimble Unity Construct users to add depth to data collection, keep tasks moving, and inform key stakeholders.

Oregon’s only public academic health center, Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) operates a school of medicine along with hospitals and clinics at multiple sites throughout Oregon and southwestern Washington. OHSU’s capital program includes sustaining projects on both academic and research and healthcare sites, comprising a typical annual spend of $60–100 million. Other capital projects expend an additional $150 million annually.