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Buffington Homes slashes time to market by 75% with Higharc

Using Higharc, Buffington quickly centralized data, created drawings, and accelerated planning to get ahead of a time-sensitive market opportunity.

2x
Faster design cycle for new communities
$10M
Additional revenue from increased home sales
$100K
Cost reduction from third party fees
Aerial shot of a Buffington Homes subdivision being built in Northwest Arkansas.

With Higharc, we see where every stud goes, where every beam is, how many sheets of plywood you need on the wall. That level of granularity helps you take waste percentage down exponentially. We’re able to move at light speed compared to where we were.

Josh Foshe
John Foshe
Special Projects Coordinator, Buffington Homes

Buffington Homes of Arkansas is an award-winning, locally owned and operated home builder in the thriving region of Northwest Arkansas.

Location: 

Fayetteville, Arkansas

Company size: 

50+

Year founded: 

2010

Design fast to increase end-of-year closings

Buffington Homes was looking to finish the year strong and set themselves up for success heading into 2024. When they found a finished lot development available for purchase, they faced a hurdle when the old developer’s blueprints were inconsistent with their current construction plans. 

With Higharc, Buffington was able to quickly recreate detailed drawings of all the options and elevations needed to capitalize on a strategic opportunity and boost revenue.

Centralize and standardize to speed up plan creation

Buffington got started with Higharc in the fall of 2022. The first priority was to set up their central data engine in Higharc, which created a single source of truth for all the information on their plan sets. Once set up, Buffington was able to reduce repetitive manual work and accelerate their plan creation.

Rapid development: The Buffington team working on plan sets in Higharc.

By December 2022, Buffington was using Higharc to develop their plans. Higharc’s Customer Success and Implementation teams partnered with Buffington to audit the original plans and cut down on unnecessary variations in design and materials from the original drawings. They set goals to be takeoff and estimate-ready by February 1st, and sales-ready by March 1st, putting them on the fast track to a Q1 new development launch, and positioning the company to surpass their revenue goals for 2023.

Cutting plan time from months to weeks with Higharc 

Being an agile builder means utilizing technology to manage the inevitable changes that occur in the building process. Once the key information was standardized and centralized, Buffington was able to reduce waste in the building process, speed their time to market, and increase revenue. 

“We would never have considered this opportunity without Higharc… Higharc has allowed us to increase the number of choices, flex spaces, and details in the elevations that we offer.”

Ted Brock
President, Buffington Homes

By streamlining and automating with Higharc, Buffington Homes was able to:

  • Add $10M in revenue from increased home sales
  • Reduce costs from third party fees by $100K
  • Cut soft cycle time down from 3 months to 3 weeks
  • Produce the first plan in only eight hours, including elevations and structural options
  • Complete three additional plans in just two weeks

Are you ready to run a more agile business like Buffington Homes? Reach out to learn how Higharc can transform your building operations with a generative design engine.

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With Higharc, we see where every stud goes, where every beam is, how many sheets of plywood you need on the wall. That level of granularity helps you take waste percentage down exponentially. We’re able to move at light speed compared to where we were.

Josh Foshe
John Foshe
Special Projects Coordinator, Buffington Homes

As soon as I saw the Higharc demo, I thought, this group has cracked the code.

Mitch Dalton
Mitch Dalton
Chief Innovation Officer, Core Spaces

The savings of 15 days in our soft schedule allowed us to start and close 20 more homes than anticipated in 2023, generating over $10M of additional revenue

Marissa Kaiser
Marissa Kaiser
Process Improvement Specialist, Buffington Homes

What Higharc is bringing to the table is what customers have been wanting. People want to see instantaneously what is happening to their floorplan.

Emily Feagles
Emily Feagles
Sales Manager, Tim O'Brien Homes

"The ability for Higharc to show our plans in 3D, to show options in real-time, and let buyers come out of an appointment with a really clear picture of what their home is going to look like is huge.”

Marissa Kaiser
Marissa Kaiser
Process Improvement Specialist, Buffington Homes

With Higharc, we see where every stud goes, where every beam is, how many sheets of plywood you need on the wall. That level of granularity helps you take waste percentage down exponentially. We’re able to move at light speed compared to where we were.

Josh Foshe
John Foshe
Special Projects Coordinator, Buffington Homes

As soon as I saw the Higharc demo, I thought, this group has cracked the code.

Mitch Dalton
Mitch Dalton
Chief Innovation Officer, Core Spaces

The savings of 15 days in our soft schedule allowed us to start and close 20 more homes than anticipated in 2023, generating over $10M of additional revenue

Marissa Kaiser
Marissa Kaiser
Process Improvement Specialist, Buffington Homes

What Higharc is bringing to the table is what customers have been wanting. People want to see instantaneously what is happening to their floorplan.

Emily Feagles
Emily Feagles
Sales Manager, Tim O'Brien Homes

The beautiful thing about Higharc is it starts with the salesperson building the end product with the customer and the plans come right out of that. There aren’t any lapses in the process.

Stew Walker
Stew Walker
VP Construction, Epcon Communities

Completing the renderings and other marketing materials faster than in the past means we are launching each of those projects at least two months ahead of when we would have been able to do so with our old process.

Paul Hanson
Paul Hanson
President, Epcon Franchising

With Higharc, when you draw four walls, you get so much more out of it. That is the biggest difference I noticed right off the bat. That blew me away, and obviously, that saves time.

Taylor Kuhlman
Taylor Kuhlman
BIM Designer, Epcon Communities

With Higharc, we see where every stud goes, where every beam is, how many sheets of plywood you need on the wall. That level of granularity helps you take waste percentage down exponentially. We’re able to move at light speed compared to where we were.

John Foshe
Special Projects Coordinator, Buffington Homes