Balfour Beatty creates smarter workflows that streamline complex projects

A national leader in construction management reduces costs and accelerates project collaboration.

$5M
Reduced IT Costs
 
2,500+
Employee Collaborators

Challenges

Balfour Beatty manages complex vertical construction and infrastructure projects. To support continued growth, including a major airport renovation, it needed a streamlined, cost-effective way to share information across teams, sites, and devices.

Balfour Beatty reduces costs and accelerates project collaboration with Egnyte Olympic Stadium, London 1 constructed by Balfour Beatty

Solution

By replacing traditional file servers and file-sharing processes with the Egnyte platform in a hybrid cloud infrastructure, the company established fast, seamless collaboration enterprise wide.

“Balfour Beatty had tried other solutions before Egnyte… but without success. We can now confidently say we have a rock-solid digital documentation process with a smart collaboration solution from Egntye across our entire organization.”
Greg Dasher, Director of Technology and Innovation, Balfour Beatty
Greg Dasher
Director of Technology and Innovation • Balfour Beatty

Results

  • More than $5 million in savings owing to reductions in hardware and software refreshes, VPN services, administrative overhead and printing on one project alone.
  • Smarter collaboration via seamless access to digital documentation for all internal users and external partners leading to increased revenue and profit.
  • Multi-level data protections through a single, secure repository for all users with flexible administration and permissions.
Thomas Volmer
“The benefits of Egnyte have touched our entire organization, from tremendous cost and time efficiencies, to creating a smarter workflow for multiple teams involved in a variety of complex projects.”
Thomas Volmer
Director of IT • Balfour Beatty
At a Glance
Industry

Construction

Location (HQ)

US Headquarters: Dallas, Texas

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