Pouring consistency into a changing construction landscape

The Challenge

Founded in 2006, Tucker Construction is a concrete specialist that found itself navigating a construction environment where design decisions increasingly overlapped with active builds. As drawing revisions, RFIs and ASIs multiplied, manual processes made it difficult to ensure crews were always working from the latest information, increasing the risk of rework, delays and budget overruns.

The Solution

Tucker Construction implemented Procore Project Management as a single source of truth for drawings, RFIs, submittals, daily logs and field documentation. At first, the team focused on the tools that mattered most, especially drawings and RFIs, then expanded usage as workflows were established. Over time, Procore became the system that connected the office to the field, standardized execution and surfaced real-time financial data through integration with the company’s ERP.

The Results

• Helped to cut rework and change-order risk by an estimated 20%
• Helped to finished closeout faster, leaving job sites about a week earlier
• Helped saved 50–75 hours per week by replacing paper timecards with digital tracking
• Improved forecasting confidence and helped to facilitate labor cost control with real-time budget visibility
• Reduced reliance on printed drawings by giving crews mobile access to the latest plans

Overlapping phases makes life harder for a concrete specialist

For nearly two decades, Tucker Construction has built its reputation on trust, technical competence and deep ties to its community. The company specializes in cast-in-place commercial concrete foundations, work that demands precision, coordination and little margin for error. As the company grew and took on more complex projects, they found the environment around them changing just as quickly.

“What used to be very clear-cut phases — design, then preconstruction, then construction — started overlapping more and more,” said Operations Manager Christian Roose. With crews often putting buckets in the ground while decisions were still being finalized, drawing revisions became a near-daily reality.

Because the company was still dependent on paper processes and manual handoffs, it was challenging to keep everyone aligned. “We realized that if we were going to keep all that information straight and actually get it into the hands of the guys building the work, we would have to be more digital and more dynamic,” Roose said. The risk wasn’t just inefficiency. It was crews building from outdated information, rework that could have been avoided and increased exposure to schedule and cost overruns.

By 2019, Tucker Construction had reached a point where document management and communication were straining under the weight of growth. The team evaluated several platforms before choosing Procore, recognizing that while the system offered more capability than they initially needed, it could grow with them.

Rather than trying to do everything at once, the company focused on what mattered most. Drawings, RFIs, submittals, daily logs and owner invoicing became the backbone of their workflows. Responsibility shifted from a single office gatekeeper to individual project managers, bringing accountability closer to the work and creating a more consistent way of operating across teams. “Procore is the single biggest organizing force keeping everyone on the same page as our company grows,” said Roose. 

Connecting every change to field execution

One of the biggest turning points came from the way that information moved from the office to the field. Procore’s automatic drawing versioning allowed crews to see the latest plans first. When something changed, they could immediately see that it hadn’t been there the day before and investigate what was different.

Roose describes the challenge as a relay. “The guy who knows what needs to happen isn’t always the guy who needs to know what needs to happen,” he said. By linking photos to RFIs and tying both back to drawings, Procore helped the company pass that baton cleanly. Daily logs and photo documentation added another layer of protection, especially for work that disappears (and can’t be altered) once the concrete has been poured. “If you can’t prove what’s under there,” Roose said, “you can get caught flat-footed later.”

That same visibility has also helped improve project closeout. With punch lists managed digitally and updated from the field, Tucker Construction can identify issues faster and resolve them sooner. On projects where the company is responsible for managing closeout, Roose said Procore has helped them move through punch lists more efficiently and get off job sites about a week earlier on average, tightening schedules and reducing the drag that often comes at the tail end of a job.

Turning labor and cost into a daily advantage

Labor has always been the biggest variable in Tucker Construction’s budgets. Before Procore, time tracking relied on printed sheets that were distributed, filled out by hand and reentered in the office. “You had multiple people touching that information every week,” Roose said. Moving to digital timecards eliminated much of that friction, helping to save an estimated 50 to 75 hours each week.

Just as important, ERP-linked costs now flow directly into project budgets. Project managers no longer wait on accounting to understand where a job stands. “Labor is usually the difference between a project being a winner or a loser,” Roose said. With real-time visibility, teams can see whether they are ahead or behind and adjust before small issues become big ones. Now, weekly labor allocation meetings are grounded in data, not gut feel. When teams stay focused on those numbers, Roose said, “we tend to win.

All of this supports a broader goal as the company looks ahead. As Tucker Construction continues to grow, leadership is focused on building consistency at scale, even as projects become more complex and labor remains tight. “We want to deliver the same high standard every time, regardless of the crew or superintendent,” Roose said. With Procore in place as the company’s operational backbone, Tucker Construction sees technology not as an add-on, but as a necessity for staying competitive in an industry that isn’t slowing down.