Truebeck Construction gets a handle on deliveries with app

In 2017, LafargeHolcim, one of the world’s largest suppliers of construction materials, tasked digital manager Jeff Chen with leading a 10-person team on a year-long, worldwide search for common construction woes that could be remedied by innovative technology. Team members spent time with hundreds of AEC pros, learning their pain points. And at jobsite after jobsite, country after country, they saw how high-tech planning devolved into antiquated execution in the field. Nowhere was this more pronounced than in delivery management. Even on half-billion-dollar projects with dozens of subcontractors, the scheduling of hundreds of trucks every week was being coordinated on whiteboards and paper. Adding to the commotion, they found that 30% to 40% of the deliveries were unscheduled.