George Butler Associates, Inc.

GBA is a full service professional design firm headquartered outside Kansas City. A multidisciplined staff provides clients architectural, engineering and surveying services in five offices across the Midwest. Established in 1969, the firm has approximately 250 employees.

Their Goals

Take advantage of great employees and first mover advantage by implementing Civil 3D in as many teams as possible. Do more with less by taking advantage of dynamic modeling to create plans in sync with the designer's intent Test Civil 3D in a production environment for future suitability Develop a plan for firm wide adoption of Civil 3D

We brought EE in to help with our Civil 3D implementation. The expertise and flexibility provided has been remarkable. They have delivered and will continue to deliver value to our organization.

John Postlewait
Civil 3D Implementation Team

EE assessed the current workflow and laid out changes for more efficient throughput of data EE created a workflow to take advantage of Autodesk Vault, creating sheets that reflect the design changes, keeping notes and callouts in constant update with revisions. EE worked hand in hand with GBA's pilot team as a member of the design staff, mentoring them through their on-time submittal of their first Civil 3D project. EE laid out plans for department adoption and is working with GBA to create future training and mentoring systems.