Case Study: The Waldinger Corporation

Highlands Construction Software and The Waldinger Corporation of Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas.

The Waldinger Corporation presented Highlands with some unique challenges and opportunities. Highlands needed to meet the needs of several project managers as well as estimators. The Waldinger Corporation exercises strong central supervision of both software and construction projects. In order to meet Waldinger’s needs, Highlands had to be centrally installed, but accessible to three major offices and distributed job sites. Also, being mature in the use of software, The Waldinger Corporation had a definite idea of what was required by their business, and it was up to Highlands to meet these requirements.

Not only is Highlands proud to have The Waldinger Corporation as a happy customer, we are glad to have the opportunity to further improve our software by working with a company that understands the needs of computerized estimating.

Statement from the Waldinger Corporation

The Waldinger Corporation is a large mechanical contractor doing piping, sheet metal, and electrical work in the Midwest for the past 100 years.  We were a long time user of QuickPen DOS Estimating software.  When it was time to move to Windows based estimating we reviewed a number of vendors, and in the end decided Highlands gave us the best value.  

The conversion of data was a major selling point for us.  We were able to import our standard labor units that are the basis of our estimating history.  With some clean up of data and addition of new materials and information not previously available to us, we were able to get Highlands working for us in relatively short period of time.  Because a large share of our estimating is done by project managers, particularly for change orders and purchasing, it was a big advantage to us to have a familiar simple approach to take off.  Flexibility of reporting, especially for the final estimate summary, has been a big benefit of the change.  And finally, we have been able to deploy Highlands over our WAN allowing us to share the same database of information among all branch offices and jobsites.  

The technical support we have received from Highlands has been excellent, and timely.  Suggestions for improvements to the software are generally implemented.  We are happy with our choice of Highlands Estimating software.

Dave Miller

Jack Wilhelmi