East Coast Firm to Deploy Mobile Application for
Streamlining Construction Materials Testing Process
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. September 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/--Agile Frameworks, LLC, a leading provider of field information management systems (FIMS), consulting and managed services for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) marketplace, has signed a new client for its MetaField™solution.
Froehling & Robertson, Inc. of Richmond, Virginia, is currently in the implementation phase of the deployment of MetaField™. The company was founded in 1881 and is the oldest independent consulting and testing firm in the United States. Each year, the company provides geotechnical, materials testing, and environmental engineering services for thousands of projects across dozens of industries.
Ken Dalton, Chief Technology Officer at F&R, stated “We have been researching the software market for quite some time to find the right solution, until now it simply did not exist. We are very excited about the benefits this product will bring to our operations. We expect to dramatically decrease the amount of time it takes to perform a field test, put the test results through quality control, send reports to our customers and issue invoices;all the while increasing accuracy at each stage of the testing/reporting life cycle. Having seen the product in use and knowing it’s a proven solution we are confident that the team at Agile Frameworks can deliver.”
MetaField™, a field information management system, is designed for engineering firms and their field technicians specializing in geotechnical, environmental, non-destructive engineering and construction materials testing to perform onsite data collection. Soil density and concrete field testing represent examples of tests that are supported by MetaField™. MetaField’s™ mobile functionality addresses the remote-nature of the business and the entire field data collection process in a more accurate, accelerated way via smartphones.
“We are very pleased to partner with Froehling & Robertson on this important project and we look forward to a long term relationship with them” stated Doug Bonestroo, Vice President of Business Development for Agile Frameworks. Brian Hase, Chief Technology Officer for Agile Frameworks added “The senior management team at Froehling & Robertson truly understands the benefits of automating these critical processes and they have already made some great suggestions for improving the product going forward”.
For more information about Agile Frameworks and Froehling & Robertson please visit www.agileframeworks.com and www.fandr.com.
Contacts:
Doug Bonestroo, VP of Business Development, Agile Frameworks, LLC
E-mail: dbonestroo@agileframeworks.com Voice: 612-202-9011
Ken Dalton, CTO, Froehling & Robertson, Inc.
E-mail: kdalton@fandr.com Voice: 804-264-2701