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McBride & Son Homes Affirms Status as Innovative Market Leader, Supported by MiTek Processes and Software
Missouri’s Largest Home Builder Masters Homebuyer Options, as It Builds With Continuous Profitable Improvement September 12, 2018 02:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time CHESTERFIELD, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MiTek USA today announced that McBride & Son Homes, already a customer of a wide range of MiTek building products, has affirmed its market leader status with the implementation of MiTek’s SAPPHIRE® Build software solution. (Read the full case study and watch a video at this link.) McBride & Son Homes Affirms Status as Innovative Market Leader, Supported by MiTek Processes and Software Tweet this McBride & Son Homes will start 900 homes in 2018, up from 742 in 2017, making the Company the 64th largest US home builder. McBride employs 225 people, a remarkably lean operation, with a ratio of just four 2018 housing starts for every employee. The Company is focused on starter to first-move-up homes, 2,200 to 3,000 square feet, and also has a luxury home division. With building operations in 30 distinct communities (and scattered lot in 20 more), McBride sells through as many as 60 model homes, with a new central design center under construction. “We clearly needed processes, and software that supported those processes, while presenting a sales environment that invited buyers to upgrade the home to their liking, using our options library. We found that solution in MiTek’s SAPPHIRE Build,” said Jake Eilermann McBride’s Vice President Architecture, Design Studio, and Purchasing. “We also use SAPPHIRE Build for a new approach to the pricing of the base house and its options. We carry around 40 base plans, and we have created bills of material (BOMs) for everything that goes into these base models. SAPPHIRE Build has a system where we can associate real-time vendor pricing with each item, so the base prices are set,” added Jeff Kackley, McBride’s Vice President of Operations. SAPPHIRE Build is just one module of MiTek’s SAPPHIRE suite of solutions. SAPPHIRE can be used by multiple players in the supply chain, from the builder who can access SAPPHIRE Viewer to collaborate on 3D BIM images of homes, to the lumber dealer, who can use SAPPHIRE Supply to collaborate with builders, trades, and others, and the Component Manufacturer (“CM”) who uses SAPPHIRE Structure to create the structural framing BIM to design the roof trusses and wall panels that McBride uses in their homes. Today, with this recent implementation, McBride uses SAPPHIRE Build®, and the following modules: SAPPHIRE Build Workflow, SAPPHIRE Build Collaboration Portal, SAPPHIRE Build Production, SAPPHIRE Build Land Management, and SAPPHIRE Configurator Tool, as well as Microsoft Dynamics Accounting. Learn more: https://www.mitek-us.com/software/SAPPHIRE-Build/ About McBride & Son Homes We are dedicated to delivering quality satisfaction. Long-term profitability depends on consistent customer satisfaction. We believe the delivery of a quality product and superior service must be supported by the highest ethical standards in every business transaction. Learn more: http://www.McBrideHomes.com/ About MiTek MiTek is a diversified global supplier of software, engineered products, services, and equipment to the residential, commercial, and industrial, construction sectors. MiTek Industries’ passion for its associates’ well-being and its customers’ success is the company’s hallmark. A Berkshire Hathaway company (NYSE: BRK-A, NYSE: BRK-B) since 2001, MiTek has operations in more than 40 countries on six continents. Learn more: www.MiTek-us.com and www.MII.com. The Design/Build methodology has become incredibly popular in construction project delivery. By offering developers and property owners greater flexibility and fewer headaches than the traditional design-bid-build framework, Design/Build has earned the praise of those in the industry. You don't have to take our word for it alone - a recent study conducted by Fails Management Institute (FMI) projected prosperous times for Design/Build lay ahead. Design/Build is becoming so widely used and depended on, it may soon deliver close to half of all projects in the United States. Design/Build spending to top $1 trillion between 2018-21 The optimistic future for Design/Build was most recently laid out in FMI's June 2018 "Design-Build Utilization" report. In the document, spending on Design/Build construction nationwide was projected to reach $1.19 trillion during the three year-period between 2018 and 2021. At the end of that window, Design/Build will account for 44 percent of all projects delivered in the U.S., a statistic significantly even higher than the 39 percent seen between 2013 and 2017. By 2021, Design/Build will see a market value of around $320 billion, up from $274 billion in 2018. Fueling much of the rise in Design/Build is the spending increase in highway/street, manufacturing, and education projects. Design/Build spending is forecast to increase for every project type (including commercial, office, health care, and transportation). Several specific categories will see the highest compound annual growth rates: highway/street (7 percent CAGR between 2018 and 2021), manufacturing (6.6 percent), and education (5.8 percent). The spending increases on infrastructure and school projects has positive implications for a greater movement across the nation to use Design/Build for more public projects. Report reveals Design/Build benefits is positively influencing spending An overarching reason why Design/Build is expected to experience such gains? Project stakeholders prefer it. The FMI report detailed modern owners' needs as a key driver in adoption of alternative delivery methods, primarily Design/Build. Owners in the report said delivery schedule had the greatest influence on their selection for a delivery method, which could help explain the increased use of Design/Build. FMI also reported owners enjoyed the advantages of Design/Build in large and complex projects, potentially because such projects enable more opportunity to innovate on cost savings. Overall, the trend will lead to greater utilization of Design/Build on project sizes above $25 million, the report noted. One challenge addressed by FMI was the need for greater education on Design/Build. While the methodology will no doubt pique the interest of more owners and developers, understanding exactly what it is, how it works and what benefits can be derived will be important. To learn more about the real-life applications and uses of Design/Build, contact Keystone Construction today. A proponent of Design/Build for 30 years, our experience and successful track record can help you become more familiar with Design/Build and how it can be leveraged. |
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