Gilbane uses Trunk Tools to track 21,000 documents (Construction Dive)
Trunk Tools was recently featured in a Construction Dive Article about how Gilbane Building Company used AI to prevent costly rework and save time and money.
Excerpt:
“Keeping track of every detail in every contract a builder signs before stepping onto a jobsite can be a Sisyphean task. You can roll that metaphorical boulder up that mountain, but something, some detail, has the chance to bring progress tumbling down. Gilbane Building Co.’s Andrew Roy knows this well.
Roy, a lead superintendent, oversaw the Baird Center expansion project, a $456 million renovation of the Milwaukee convention venue, as part of a joint venture with Fond du Lac, Wisconsin-based C.D. Smith.
Together, Roy and his team added approximately 300,000 square feet to the existing structure — which originally opened in 1998 — including 24 new meeting rooms, more than 400 indoor parking spaces, six loading docks and an executive kitchen, according to the project’s information page. The group broke ground in 2021 and fast-tracked completion, leading to a May 2024 finish.
But getting there wasn’t easy. The job’s specifications and contracts added up to around 21,000 discrete documents, an issue that has become increasingly common on today’s more complex builds.
“It isn’t humanly impossible to be completely familiar with every single document on the project and every single change or conversation that’s going on,” Roy said.
This is where New York City-based Trunk Tools came into play. The company makes an artificial intelligence-based tool that contractors can use to track a project’s documents and contracts to get immediate answers without leaving the jobsite.”