“Alot of their superintendents and field contractors know how to use other scheduling software, but they went away from that in favor of using allucent because it’s more intuitive,” says Jason Shlenz, a senior scheduler at Big-D Constuction. allucent was created by members of the construction industry, for the construction industry. Our founders were well aware of existing practices and softwares and the shortfalls that each came with. Rather than waiting for a solution, they created their own.

Adam Mallroy, a senior scheduler from Big-D Construction on the project explains this in detail. “So before we had allucent on board here,” he says, “we basically just printed a report and made it a PDF. The superintendents were putting the bare minimum data in the schedule. Sometimes they wouldn’t even give all the information we needed. But it was just bare minimum, very little explanation.”

“allucent allowed them to better communicate because they saw the changes before it even came to me,” he continues, “and then they started communicating that to their subs immediately. allucent has become quite remarkable in getting people that information quicker and then people start going into action quicker. It’s definitely allowed us to solve problems at a faster pace.”

“Before I came to phase three, Mondays were atrocious for me,” says Jason. “I didn’t use allucent at all. In phase two, it was all PDF and I would send two and a half, 3 hours just cleaning up schedule with the lead superintendents and it was awful. And here’s Adam Mallory (who used allucent) sitting back, sipping mai tai’s on the beach. Oh, he’s got his work done.”

Soon, other team members began to notice how much time it not only saved their co-workers, but teams overall. Communication and productivity increased, and projects were completed at increasingly faster speeds. “We're separated by a couple football fields, Adam and the field team are. So it gives us another line of communication to get back and forth…giving us a second line of communication is critical,” comments Park Madsen, another Senior Superintendent from Big-D Construction. Thanks to allucent’s intuitive design, it was easy to implement within existing systems. “It’s kind of self training,” he says.

Joel Tunny, a field coordinator at Holder construction recognized the power of allucent straightaway. "The second line of communication with our scheduler was super helpful,” he says, “There’s been a number of times where we've re-sequenced things based on flows and, you know, being as far away (in proximity) as we are, the ability to leave a comment and effectively get what the field needs, at the time that it needs it, is huge.”

“It’s a little different than anything I'd ever used before, but it was really easy and fast to catch up to,” says Joseph Trapp, an assistant superintendent at Holder Construction. Park chimes in and states, “You're listening to the superintendents talk about predecessors and successors and logic and fragments. They’re taking ownership in the schedule because there's a tool that allows them to understand how it works. It's user friendly. It's bridging the gap.”