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The City of Las Vegas Doubles Down on Digital Transformation with Bluebeam Revu

Bluebeam Software

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries	Cities & Municipalities
Applicable Functions	Procurement
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization Remote Collaboration
Services	System Integration Training
Challenge	The City of Las Vegas was facing inefficiencies in its permit approval process due to its reliance on paper-based plan reviews. With an average of 20,000 permits a year, the city was struggling with a process that could only be reviewed one discipline at a time, taking a week or more per discipline, across a minimum of five different disciplines. The process also involved routing printed mylars to five utility companies for final signatures, a process that could take up to six weeks. Storage was also an issue, with paper plans scattered across three different repositories. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent shift to remote working made the paper-based review sessions impossible. Read More
About Customer	The City of Las Vegas is a bustling metropolis known for its vibrant entertainment and tourism industry. However, behind the glitz and glamour, the city is also a hub of administrative and regulatory activities. It handles close to 20,000 permits a year, a volume that requires accuracy, efficiency, and collaboration across multiple reviewers, disciplines, and jurisdictions. The city was in need of a digital transformation to facilitate digital or electronic plan review between area developers and municipal reviewers. The city's IT department had started a project designed to make as many things as possible available to the customers online — a system that could bring planning, building, and licensing together into a single solution. Read More
Solution	The city chose Bluebeam Revu as a single solution that could combine planning, building, and licensing into a collaborative digital environment. This transformed the city’s paper-based workflows into an electronic plan review process. Bluebeam Studio linked multiple departments, as well as submitters and plan reviewers for real-time concurrent reviews, allowing reviewers to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reviews were also standardized, thanks to Bluebeam’s best-in-class Markups List and Tool Chest features, which helped improve production times and ultimately facilitated more projects for the city of Las Vegas. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Applicable Industries

Cities & Municipalities

Applicable Functions

Procurement

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Remote Collaboration

Services

System Integration

Training

Challenge

The City of Las Vegas was facing inefficiencies in its permit approval process due to its reliance on paper-based plan reviews. With an average of 20,000 permits a year, the city was struggling with a process that could only be reviewed one discipline at a time, taking a week or more per discipline, across a minimum of five different disciplines. The process also involved routing printed mylars to five utility companies for final signatures, a process that could take up to six weeks. Storage was also an issue, with paper plans scattered across three different repositories. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent shift to remote working made the paper-based review sessions impossible.

About Customer

The City of Las Vegas is a bustling metropolis known for its vibrant entertainment and tourism industry. However, behind the glitz and glamour, the city is also a hub of administrative and regulatory activities. It handles close to 20,000 permits a year, a volume that requires accuracy, efficiency, and collaboration across multiple reviewers, disciplines, and jurisdictions. The city was in need of a digital transformation to facilitate digital or electronic plan review between area developers and municipal reviewers. The city's IT department had started a project designed to make as many things as possible available to the customers online — a system that could bring planning, building, and licensing together into a single solution.

Solution

The city chose Bluebeam Revu as a single solution that could combine planning, building, and licensing into a collaborative digital environment. This transformed the city’s paper-based workflows into an electronic plan review process. Bluebeam Studio linked multiple departments, as well as submitters and plan reviewers for real-time concurrent reviews, allowing reviewers to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reviews were also standardized, thanks to Bluebeam’s best-in-class Markups List and Tool Chest features, which helped improve production times and ultimately facilitated more projects for the city of Las Vegas.

Impact #1	The city was able to keep projects moving during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Impact #2	The previous eight-step paper-based process was cut down to four steps, instantly eliminating days and weeks for every review.
Impact #3	Plans examiners and admin staff are now using their time for more productive work.

Impact #1

The city was able to keep projects moving during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Impact #2

The previous eight-step paper-based process was cut down to four steps, instantly eliminating days and weeks for every review.

Impact #3

Plans examiners and admin staff are now using their time for more productive work.

Benefit #1	The city of Las Vegas expects to be saving the customers an average of $100 in printing costs for each submittal for an annual savings of at least $600,000 to the local development industry.
Benefit #2	One customer working on a new hospital tower estimates the savings for their project was $4,930 by eliminating paper and drive time to city offices.
Benefit #3	Electronic plan review with Revu allowed remote working and cut eight review processes in half to four steps, saving weeks of time and hassle.

Benefit #1

The city of Las Vegas expects to be saving the customers an average of $100 in printing costs for each submittal for an annual savings of at least $600,000 to the local development industry.

Benefit #2

One customer working on a new hospital tower estimates the savings for their project was $4,930 by eliminating paper and drive time to city offices.

Benefit #3

Electronic plan review with Revu allowed remote working and cut eight review processes in half to four steps, saving weeks of time and hassle.

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The City of Las Vegas Doubles Down on Digital Transformation with Bluebeam Revu

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