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

Customer Company Size

Large Corporate

Region

America

Country

United States

Product

Bluebeam Revu

Tech Stack

Bluebeam Studio
Infor

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Cost Savings
Productivity Improvements

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Applicable Industries

Cities & Municipalities

Applicable Functions

Procurement

Use Cases

Remote Collaboration
Process Control & Optimization

Services

System Integration
Training

About The 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.

The 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.

The 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.

Operational Impact

The city was able to keep projects moving during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The previous eight-step paper-based process was cut down to four steps, instantly eliminating days and weeks for every review.
Plans examiners and admin staff are now using their time for more productive work.
The cost savings from the reduction of paper alone have brought six-figure savings to the local industry clients.
The city has gained efficiencies in plan review and reduced timeframes, which will also benefit the customer and community at large.

Quantitative Benefit

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.
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.
Electronic plan review with Revu allowed remote working and cut eight review processes in half to four steps, saving weeks of time and hassle.
Instant access and standardized markups save time per review, with Studio Sessions saving weeks per review across multiple disciplines and plan reviewers.