Core Communities to Leverage e-Builder on Port St. Lucie Project

When the developer of Florida's largest master-planned community, Tradition, decided they needed to implement a Webbased project management system, they turned to e-Builder. Core Communities, one of Florida's leading developers, is on the fast track to developing one of the region's most popular and sought after growth areas – Port St. Lucie, Florida. As they develop and build out two communities with multiple design/ build projects, contractors, consultants and team members – the project managers realized the importance of streamlining all communications in one central location.

“Innovation is one of our cornerstones,” said Howard Ehrsam, project manager of Core Communities Tradition. “Considering the size of the Tradition community, the number of simultaneous projects, timing and logistics; we realized it only made sense to invest in a Web-based system to keep us on track.” Tradition is a 10,000-acre residential community with a mix of schools, commercial and retail construction which currently has approximately 50 projects and they are just getting started. Prior to using the e-Builder system, Traditionʼs project managers depended on email strings, various software packages, and other traditional routes of communication such as fax, copies and mailing.

“Before we had e-Builder there was more room for error; project plans would be changed by one person, and another person might make changes to an older version of a plan,” said Ehrsam.“The e-Builder system now gives us the efficiencies to distribute new plans, drawings, documents and updates to the entire team simultaneously. With so much going on so fast, we needed a central hub for our information and documentation, e-Builder provides that hub.”
One of the sites currently being managed and valued at approximately $9 million including commercial, retail and a parking garage, the e-Builder system allows all Tradition team members to view an executive summary of the project anytime, anywhere via the Internet.

About e-Builder™

e-Builder, Inc., headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, develops business-to-business Internet tools for the commercial construction industry. Its suite of products enable and enhance the exchange of information among construction industry participants and helps projects come in on time and on budget. e-Builder is the pioneer of Internet-based tools for construction and in 1995 was honored by Engineering News-Record, a respected publication of The McGraw-Hill Companies, as one of the Top 25 Newsmakers of the year. e-Builder is sold worldwide direct and through its preferred partner network. Customers include: America Online, The Beck Group, Beers Construction, Columbia/HCA, HOK Architects, Lucent Technologies, NBBJ Sports Architects, Skanska USA, Swinerton & Walburg, Tishman Construction and more. For more information on e-Builder, visit the company's web site at www.e-builder.net. For sales information, call 1-800-580-9322.

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