While the market for new construction remains strong, home builders are facing a multitude of challenges — record high fuel prices, supply chain issues, labor shortages, the list goes on and on. On a recent earnings call, PulteGroup president and CEO Ryan Marshall shared that lead times for order fulfillment have gone from six weeks to 16 weeks for some products, with limited options for substitutions. Meritage Homes CEO Phillippe Lord said ongoing supply chain disruptions lengthened construction time by about two weeks sequentially between the third and fourth quarters of 2021 (Builder Online).
It’s hard to say when relief will come. It may feel like these factors are out of your control and there is nothing you can do, but now is the perfect time to find ways to improve your processes enabling you to make the most of your time, budgets, and employees. TraceAir is here to help. We’ve helped many home builders save hundreds of thousands of dollars and countless hours by using TraceAir to improve their processes, avoid disputes, cut back on travel expenses, and stay on schedule. We empower everyone involved with a project to be able to make decisions using real data.
Travel Time
Many home builders, land development managers, and executives oversee multiple projects across a large geographic area resulting in many hours on the road every week driving between job sites. With the current high fuel prices this will quickly add up to be a major expense for companies. While we can’t control fuel prices, we can save you countless hours spent on the road. TraceAir makes it possible to track progress remotely with 3D topographical scans.
Multiply Your Workforce
Are you experiencing trouble finding skilled labor? You’re not alone. 83% of contractors are having trouble filling salaried and craft positions, according to the Association of General Contractors. 85% of homebuilders expect cost and availability of labor to be a problem they will experience in 2022. While contractors search for new ways to attract skilled labor, using technology like TraceAir enables them to empower their current workforce to work smarter. TraceAir is turnkey and easy to implement.
All the people I work with on my jobs, whether they're moving dirt or creating spreadsheets, absolutely love it. TraceAir's site management and analytics platform elevates the communication and collaboration with everyone involved in the project, from investors and owners to contractors and engineers. The more communication you have on a project, the smoother the project will go.”
— PJ Stambaugh, Land Development Manager, Toll Brothers
Cut Back on Stress
Being a home builder or contractor can be stressful at times and now is certainly one them. Stress can quickly stack up and lead to avoidable issues, hurt relationships, and health issues.
Here are a few ways TraceAir can significantly reduce stress:
Avoid disputes
With the added challenges the industry has been facing, the number of disputes within the construction industry has increased significantly over the last few years. By creating one clear source of data which also serves as a historical record, TraceAir helps avoid disputes.
With TraceAir, we resolved this issue in days instead of weeks, and we recouped tens of thousands of dollars that otherwise would have been lost.”
— Ron Nooteboom, Independent Construction, Vice President of Operations
Improve Project Management
Trying to manage countless vendors, deadlines, sharing progress with investors, addressing problems that arise is difficult. TraceAir is the #1 site work solution for homebuilders and land developers. We make it easy for you to manage all of your projects.
Improve Communication
Communication is key to reducing stress. We provide unlimited licenses so that everyone from stakeholders to contractors and everyone in between can view the data. TraceAir was specifically designed to be extremely easy for everyone to use, no need to be tech savvy.
Make decisions with data
Rather than making decisions using your best guess, TraceAir allows you and your team to make decisions using real data. This data drastically improves accuracy enabling users to verify billing, manage site balance, determine the most efficient haul roads, confirm grade, the possibilities are endless.
A Better Return on Investment
Investing in TraceAir goes far beyond financial savings. Obtaining accurate data ensures maximum productivity by eliminating the need for redoing surveys to correct errors. Conducting remote site inspections eliminates the need to spend more worker hours on site, reducing costs overall. In addition, the ability to collaborate and share information captured by drones digitally minimizes the need for regular on-site visits and meetings, saving home builders and land developers on time and consultant costs.
TraceAir is completely turnkey. Our pricing is based on the size of projects and how often we scan the site. This can be as often as you’d like, but most of our clients opt for weekly scans. No project is too big or too small to benefit from TraceAir. Unlike many other software's that charge per license, TraceAir provides unlimited licenses so that everyone involved with the project can have access to data and be on the same page.
TraceAir users are seeing major returns on their investment with TraceAir. Several users have seen hundreds of thousands of dollars in returns by using TraceAir to improve their processes, avoid disputes, cut back on travel expenses, and stay on schedule. Check out a few of our customer success stories:
• Customer Story: Arroyo Capital Reduces Costs with Virtual Site Inspections
• How Our Customer Saved $54,000 on a Single Change Order
• Customer Story: Toll Brothers Portland Makes Cost Saving Decisions with TraceAir
• Customer Story: Independent Construction Improves Margins with TraceAir
Check out our ROI calculator to see how much you could save.
Part of our rationale behind going all-in with TraceAir was comparing the cost with our current processes.”
— Jason Francis, Director of Land Development, M/I Homes of Central Ohio
Get Started
TraceAir is here to help you make it through these difficult times. We care about your business and want to help your succeed. Request a demo to learn more.