Episode 153:

Today on “The Building Code,” Zach and Charley are live from Buildertrend University with Austin McKnight, co-owner of Southern Creek Homes in College Station, Texas. Austin and his brother founded the company in 2015, and it wasn’t long before they realized they needed to implement construction software if they were going to be successful.

Listen to the full episode to hear about their experience at Buildertrend University and how Buildertrend is helping them scale their home-building business in a manageable way.

How has your experience at Buildertrend University been so far?

“So, we've only had a few classes thus far, but it's great. Especially seeing how it seems like some of the trainers are just specialty in those areas. Looking forward to the one-on-one session this evening to drill down and get a little deeper in some things. But no, it's great. We used 10% of Buildertrend for three years, and I'd still say we're only like 60% now. There are warranties, surveys, there's the sales side of it that we don't use, there's a lot of things that we're excited to keep growing in and keep utilizing.”

How has Buildertrend helped you in the current state of the construction market?

“The market is totally changed, and it's hot right now. But to me, that's another reason to get organized now. I think some of the smaller builders that may not have a system like Buildertrend or whatever system, this market's really changed the last two years. I see projects all the time sitting waiting on windows. Well, that’s easy if you have it set up, and you know upfront, ‘My windows are 16 weeks out, I need to order them at this point.’ Our timeline really hasn't drastically increased because we've moved our process up. So, we're in appliances right away because it's eight months out right now. So, little things like that, we've just changed our process versus letting it change our process for us.”

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