Customer Stories - IFTI streamlines construction monitoring and project bidding with reality capture | James Duffy, Director of Sales and Marketing, IFTI | Video courtesy of Matterport YouTube Channel (17 September 2019)

Hi All,

This Matterport (video) show Matterport use cases by a construction documentation company:

✓ construction documentation
✓ weekly construction progress reports (and work order / change order resolution)
✓ pre-bid documentation in AEC space
✓ facilities management
✓ reduce flights to job sites

Your thoughts?

Best,

Dan

P.S. Here is a transcript of the video:

James Duffy, Director of Sales and Marketing, IFTI

James Duffy. I'm the director of sales and marketing for Independent Floor Testing & Inspection, otherwise known as IFTI. We've actually been around for over 20 years as what started out as a concrete moisture testing company. Companies started to trust us with that integrity and they started to ask us to start documenting and surveying their spaces, and that's where we fell upon and figured out Matterport would be the right niche for our service offering in the retail environment.

We have different clients that use us for construction monitoring quite often, so we're doing that weekly progression and to one of these clients, they actually use it for their project management meetings every week. So we go scan on Thursday.

We have all the scans completed and then on Monday morning when they have their project management meeting, each project managers ask if there's any issue that they need to highlight in the meeting and they pull up the Matterport space and they walk through it and they dissect an issue.

And so we help them with their documentation, usually when the walls go up and right before rough-in that we come in and document. And what they've noticed is a change in the work orders of the change orders of what's happening because they're able to catch problems quicker. So National Contractors Inc. actually reached out to us and they're using this for their remodel program.

So before they actually put it out for their subcontractors, we go in and do a scan for their pre-bid so they can actually help their contractors walk through the space. What they're doing is tightening the window for their pre-bids, so they're able to give people the window, the two weeks to walk through.

So whether or not they went on a site visit or not, they're able to still bid on the project because they're able to have adequate information and time to understand a space to put an accurate bid in there.

They actually like us for coming for grand opening at phase turnover when the project is done. So they're not only giving them the punch list and the walkthrough, they're able to share this with leadership in a more dynamic way.

So if it's a new prototype of a store that they've been asked to complete, they're doing the walkthrough. They're actually giving it to them in VR. So the C-level executives can walk through the space without trying to all get on a plane and get to the space.

The nice part is with Matterport, the value and the ROI is not just a transactional basis. It's a full life cycle. So that scan has value to the facilities community, to the construction, to the engineering and design department, to marketing, to operations. So that one scan has a value that quintuples.