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“We're looking at different ways that we can use different groups within our company,”

“What we've seen in the past is when we come in with a new software and we say everybody's got to use it — not everybody's going to use it, and it's hard to manage.”

“Computers you can change—they don't complain.”

“People are always toughest to adapt to change,”

“It just helps Burns & McDonnell stand out as a partner with 4M and in the industry at this point.”

“This was an innovative tool that we had been talking about even before we came upon 4M for a couple of years,”

““4M doesn’t replace our field verification,” Kail says. “But it supercharges our ability to plan and prioritize intelligently, making our SUE efforts more strategic, not just reactive.””

““Every piece of information helps mitigate risk,” Kail states. “The worst thing on a construction site is a trackhoe uncovering a pipe nobody knew about—that stops everything.””

“"Verifying data is a lot easier than generating the data,” Kail says. “With 4M, our CAD technicians can focus on QA/QC instead of data creation, and anytime you start with QA/QC, you're already ahead of the game. "”

““Using 4M’s Utility AI Mapping Platform, we gain rapid access to a nationwide subsurface utility database that synthesizes hundreds of public and proprietary data sources into a GIS-ready utility overview,””

““It helps support our estimating efforts by providing the customer an estimate with a higher confidence on the level of effort needed to address utility exploration and design,””

““When you look under the hood, the AI engine and how the 4M solution pulls data from many different sources and presents it in a complete package — that’s impressive, too.””

““ 4M is impressive on many levels , including the quality and fidelity of the data, the speed at which we obtain it, and the amazing partnership with the 4M team along the way,””

““We’ve never been this far along on a project so soon.””

““The ability to get projects done quicker and ready for construction sooner pays for 4M on its own,””

““The 4M data has a much higher fidelity than what we had been getting traditionally. Along with other technology we have incorporated this year, it will help us eliminate a significant portion of constructibility issues.””

““Give it a shot. Once you actually use it, you can validate 4M data with your own data to give you the comfort level you need. It’s an easy sell once you see it."”

““We had lots of doubts at first,” he says. “How accurate is the data? Where is all the information coming from? Are they going to miss something? There were a lot of things we had to double-check.””

““There’s nothing more fun than going to a kickoff meeting and pulling up the area in 4M,” says Murphy. “I say, ‘Here’s the utility data and what we’re going to be looking at.’ It inspires confidence that we know what we’re doing. ””

““We built trust along the way ,” Murphy says. “ I felt we could keep using you guys because the data is definitely going to be reliable. ””

““I mean, this is just the beginning,” he says. “It's crazy that we haven't even been with you guys for a year and there's always updates, there's more coming. That makes it exciting.””

““If you could turn in a project and you feel good about it and you're not worried about it going to construction and worrying what might happen,” says Krajewski, “you could live your life anxiety-free that your projects are going to get done and they're going to go without a hitch, without any safety concerns, without any utility strikes. You've done all you could and you've gotten the best information that you can find.””

““A lot of times, pedestals or different types of utility infrastructures will have labels on it and on Google Earth you can't read that,” Krajewski says. “But sometimes I get lucky on 4M — I can zoom in and actually read what that says on the object. That's just another piece of information that I'm getting from the office that can help me paint the picture before I go out there to the field .””

““You want to know at least a high-level idea instantaneously of what you're looking at: this is an excellent tool for that,” says Krajewski. “There's nothing out there that's going to be like that. But at the same time, just knowing it doesn't replace what you normally do. You still have your own due diligence that you're supposed to do.””

““I've actually had projects where the client came back on my scope and said it was too high and I actually showed them, ‘Hey, this is information I got from 4M, this is why I scoped it,’ and I just spelled it out for them,” Krajewski says. “And they said okay, thanks for showing us, we'll go with your original scope.””