Pacific West Builders, a general construction contracting firm based in San Diego, is engaged on the design-build of federal facilities. The company has delivered more than 50 defense-related projects and its clients include the US Navy, and the US Air Force. The company is using Aconex across its portfolio of government projects.

“Our main reason for selecting Aconex is to ensure that robust data security measures are in place.” 

Patricia Romero, CEO of Pacific West Builders

How Aconex helped

Patricia Romero, CEO of Pacific West Builders, said: “When we undertake design-build projects for the Navy and Air Force, a tremendous amount of documentation is generated and exchanged. Because of this, we wanted a centralized, standardized system for managing information. We previously used in-house tools – MS Word, spreadsheets and Outlook – to communicate and manage information; however we found that, with so many external parties involved, this could be cumbersome and lacked the tracking capabilities we required.

“Particularly since our work is government-related, our main reason for selecting Aconex is to ensure that our documentation is in order and that robust data security measures are in place. In the past, projects have sometimes experienced delays because we haven’t been able to track items – such as which documents have been reviewed and whether RFIs have been responded to – as well as we'd have liked. Being able to track all this through Aconex will mitigate these risks and help keep our projects on track.”