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