Rimrock Construction Brings Projects Back on Track with Planera

How Rimrock's scheduling team used Planera to cut review time, boost superintendent adoption, and deliver projects on schedule.

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The Challenge

Rimrock Construction was emerging from a difficult period, with projects consistently late and incurring heavy liquidated damages. Their existing scheduling tools (Phoenix, OPC, Microsoft Project) lacked built-in analytics, required additional software for reporting, and consumed countless hours in manual reviews. Superintendents viewed schedules as static reports, not active tools, making it difficult to drive accountability and collaboration.

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The Solution

When Charley Alger was hired to lead the new scheduling department, he implemented Planera as the company’s scheduling backbone. The platform’s built-in analytics, quality grading, and real-time collaboration transformed how Rimrock built, shared, and updated schedules. Charley trained project teams and superintendents to use Planera directly—on iPads in the field, in Procore integrations, and in executive reporting.

"The collaborative capabilities of Planera in real time are far and away above any other scheduling software. Multiple people can use it at one time and develop a schedule together as a team."

Charley Alger
Rimrock Construction

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The Impact

Faster reviews: Schedule review time dropped from days to minutes thanks to watch lists and dashboards.
On-time delivery: Projects that once finished a year late are now tracking on schedule.
Superintendent buy-in: Field leaders actively use schedules daily as planning tools, not just reports.
Transparency: Real-time schedules are shared with executives, owners, and subcontractors, ensuring trust and eliminating “fake schedules.”
Time savings in the field: Updates happen on-site with tablets, eliminating duplicate work.

“Clients are happier because projects are on schedule. The transparency with owners and subcontractors has increased tremendously—we’re not hiding anything.”

Charley Alger
Rimrock Construction

Why It Works

Planera combines enterprise-grade analytics and reporting with intuitive, real-time collaboration. Unlike traditional tools, it adapts to project realities, empowers superintendents to engage directly, and integrates seamlessly with Procore and other workflows. Most importantly, Rimrock’s scheduling department uses Planera not as a reporting mechanism, but as a daily driver of project execution.