Boise, Idaho - Boise Engineered Wood Products has announced Boise Plans Room, a management tool to be used by building material retailers and homebuilders to streamline the processes of planning and building homes. Boise Plans Room is a software application allowing Boise customers to post electronic drawing files to a secure internet-based information repository for each individual project to communicate, track, update, do take-offs and organize for future use. Boise Plans Room is another in a continuing series of Boise value-added services that contribute to the business success of Boise's channel partners -- building products dealers and their homebuilder customers across the U.S. and Canada.
Boise, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, manufactures engineered wood products, plywood, lumber, and particleboard
With Boise Plans Room, complete home plans can be posted, viewed and marked up by project team members. Plans Room improves communication and keeps team members up to date and working from the most current set of plans, and can eliminate costly errors. Since only an Internet connection and email address are required, project team members have instant, anytime access to the latest project documents and designs based on their security level. Decisions are made quickly and are always based on the most current information.
"With Boise Plans Room the plan may be accessed any time by the architect/designer, builder, dealer, subcontractors, product vendors, even the homeowner," said Matt Prince, Boise Engineered Wood Products software manager. "Project members can view, download, print and mark up plans, and post changes as they're made for all to see," Prince added. "This can help assure that everyone is working with the most current plans that incorporate recent changes," he said. Boise Plans Room enables better project collaboration, with project members making decisions based on the most current information.
Plans Room can help dealers protect their design information. It can give small-to-medium builders a powerful tool that until now has been available only to larger builders. And owners and project managers enjoy heightened project visibility and financial control with Boise Plans Room.
This new management tool is simple to deploy, maintain, and use. It keeps information safe with a multilevel permission system that limits access to authorized users at each level. Boise Plans Room centralizes and standardizes the way projects are managed, ensuring consistent documentation, common work practices, and clearer, easily understood communication. It also enables the re-use of standard project templates, or "cloning", of complete projects with all changes and enhancements. Boise Plans Room permits easy viewing and markup by all members of the extended project team without the need to own design software. The service is furnished as part of a suite of tangible value-added services, for a smoother supply chain and increased profit and success for Boise channel partners.
"We're very excited about what Boise Plans Room can do for our customers in terms of helping streamline their operations and take things off their plates that computers can handle more efficiently," said Denny Huston, Boise Engineered Wood Products sales and marketing manager. "Boise Plans Room is a powerful tool for builders, building products dealers, and all of their homebuilding team members to stay plugged into every project and work together for greater success and profit," Huston added.
About Boise Cascade
Boise, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, manufactures engineered wood products, plywood, lumber, and particleboard and distributes a broad line of building materials, including wood products manufactured by the company. Boise also manufactures a wide range of specialty and premium products, including imaging papers for the office and home and papers for pressure sensitive applications, as well as printing and converting papers, containerboard and corrugated boxes, newsprint, and market pulp. Visit Boise's website at www.bc.com.
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