Construction Software for Public Sector Projects

Q: What software do public sector professionals use for plan reviews, document management and digital collaboration?

Civil and public sector professionals around the world use Bluebeam Revu to mark up, measure and collaborate on PDF documents in real time with clients from anywhere. Revu offers customizable markup and measurement tools perfect for civil teams working on complex construction or infrastructure projects. Tools can be saved, reused or shared across teams and projects, ensuring efficient, standardized communication project after project. It also gives teams a centralized place in the cloud to store, manage and share project files, with timesaving automation tools for organization and document comparison. Public sector teams can also easily access projects and edit or markup anywhere—in the office or in the field—with Bluebeam Cloud, our cloud-based web and mobile platform that’s fully compatible with their Studio files from Revu.

Q: What are the best features to look for in civil or public sector software?

Civil and public sector professionals evaluating software for plan reviews, asset management, etc. generally look for solutions that allow them to save paper, speed up reviews, and improve measurement accuracy. Bluebeam Revu gives civil teams smart, easy-to-use markup and measurement tools that they can customize, save and share with clients. Revu also features a built-in collaboration platform, Studio, which allows stakeholders to digitally mark up and review PDF drawings and documents together in real time from anywhere. That means faster plan and permit reviews, greater document control and a lot less wasted paper.

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Bluebeam helps public sector teams finish the job faster, with highly customizable markup and collaboration tools that speed up reviews and improve communication.

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Digitize plan reviews, approvals and more

Speed up all your processes with software for civil engineering, land planning and public development project collaboration. Studio in Bluebeam^® Revu^® allows you to securely review, mark up, and modify plans and permits at the same time.

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Standardize your project workflows

Effortlessly edit drawings and documents with industry-standard markups and symbols, then save or share custom civil toolsets so clients and project partners are always on the same page.

Improve measurement speed and accuracy

Take quick, precise measurements and dynamically link totals from multiple PDFs to Excel® as you draw, ensuring faster, more accurate estimates for sitework items.

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Improve measurement speed and accuracy

Take quick, precise measurements and dynamically link totals from multiple PDFs to Excel® as you draw, ensuring faster, more accurate estimates for sitework items.

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Quantify your estimations faster

Help your preconstruction teams quantify estimations faster by using visual search in Revu. Effortlessly count assets, create legend lists and take linear or area measurements.

Manage your assets in one place

Maintain your communities’ assets and keep everyone on track by using the data in your plans to seamlessly search and quantify how many assets you have.

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Get actionable data insights

Automatically track all markups placed on a PDF, including author, date, color, plus associated comments and statuses. And export data to your preferred BI tool to get valuable insights into project progress and performance.

You're in good company.

“If we didn’t have access to Bluebeam, I think we would have been completely stalled for weeks at a minimum, and overall projects would have been delayed for months.”

Yolanda Palomo, Process Review Coordinator
City of Las Vegas

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"We love that Bluebeam was built with the AEC industry in mind. Features like the Tool Chest, the ability to collaborate online in Studio and the stability of the digital signatures process are making our lives much easier."

Bruce Bourgoin, Supervising Engineer
Connecticut Department of Transportation (CT DOT)

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"The ability to be able to collaborate across individuals, across teams, across offices, I think is a fantastic benefit that we get out of Bluebeam.”

Naveen Dath, Director
Cottee Parker

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“The amount of time and work that Balfour Beatty Construction saved by eliminating redundancy is incredible, and our subs have also benefited from tremendous cost savings.”

Robeart Feille, Senior Project Manager
Balfour Beatty Construction

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"Now that we've got Bluebeam, we no longer have to upload those PDFs to that second software; we can do all our counting, our measurements, everything, right through Bluebeam."

Sean Coleman, Project Estimator
Interstate Electrical Services

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You're in good company.

“If we didn’t have access to Bluebeam, I think we would have been completely stalled for weeks at a minimum, and overall projects would have been delayed for months.”

Yolanda Palomo, Process Review Coordinator
City of Las Vegas

Read the full story
"We love that Bluebeam was built with the AEC industry in mind. Features like the Tool Chest, the ability to collaborate online in Studio and the stability of the digital signatures process are making our lives much easier."

Bruce Bourgoin, Supervising Engineer
Connecticut Department of Transportation (CT DOT)

Read the full story
"The ability to be able to collaborate across individuals, across teams, across offices, I think is a fantastic benefit that we get out of Bluebeam.”

Naveen Dath, Director
Cottee Parker

Read the full story
“The amount of time and work that Balfour Beatty Construction saved by eliminating redundancy is incredible, and our subs have also benefited from tremendous cost savings.”

Robeart Feille, Senior Project Manager
Balfour Beatty Construction

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"Now that we've got Bluebeam, we no longer have to upload those PDFs to that second software; we can do all our counting, our measurements, everything, right through Bluebeam."

Sean Coleman, Project Estimator
Interstate Electrical Services

Read the full story