BHSF was inducted into the 2010 Hall of Fame program, held at the 2010 Meridian Systems User Conference in Washington, DC on May 25. BHSF uses Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Software to take construction management reporting to a higher level by utilizing one centralized software system of record. The Hall of Fame program recognizes project-based organizations that are best-in-class when it comes to managing infrastructure-intensive capital building programs and construction projects.

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BHSF is a thriving non-profit health care system with more than 200 construction projects in progress at any given time. Management of projects ranging from a $50K floor renovation to a new hospital costing hundreds of millions of dollars consisted of paper-based processes, including Excel spreadsheets, Word documents and the manual routing of paper for approvals. Communication issues plagued this system, often causing construction delays and confusion around responsibility. This made it difficult to manage individual projects and get big picture information for executive management.

“Our manual system made communication difficult because it relied heavily on the construction management staff supplying up-to-date information and that didn’t always happen,” explains Petter Melau, Business Technology Consultant within BHSF’s IT group. “We realized that having a formalized project management system in place with a centralized data collection point would provide the structure needed to overcome our communication problems.”

To lead its Proliance^® software implementation, BHSF chose Meridian Systems authorized Systems Integrator, Runding Corporation. “Runding got involved immediately after we signed the contract with Meridian and led us directly into the design phase of our implementation,” says Melau. “We spent four or five months on the system design and testing, which greatly contributed to our success.”

To download the complete BHSF Case Study, visit the Meridian Systems Information Library.

* 2010 inductees included: AECOM, Baptist Health South Florida, Harris Construction Company, HDR, Inc, and Simon Property Group. For more information on the Hall of Fame, or to be considered for the 2011 program, visit our web site.