- The client
For more than a century, Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company has delivered some of California’s most complex projects, from high-rise towers and research campuses to civic institutions, museums, hotels, and tenant improvements. In Northern California, their preconstruction leadership team has worked together for nearly two decades, building a consistent approach to estimating, benchmarking, and early project planning.
- The Challenge
They had the experience; the challenge was pulling the right information together quickly enough to use it. Historical cost data, conceptual budgets, and benchmark projects lived everywhere: Excel files, old estimates, shared drives, and people’s heads. Every new pursuit meant going back and rebuilding context.
“Before ConCntric, if we needed to benchmark a project, we’d have to hunt the data down. We could do it, but we’d spend half a day doing it.”
Preconstruction Director
Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company
For a team pursuing complex work in markets like San Francisco, that lag shows up fast: slower budgets, less time to analyze, more reliance on whoever happens to remember the last job.
Hathaway Dinwiddie didn’t need another spreadsheet layer.
They needed preconstruction infrastructure that matched the sophistication of their team.
- ConCntric Impact
From Scattered Files to a Connected Preconstruction Environment
Institutional Memory, Activated
Instead of adding another point solution, Hathaway Dinwiddie brought their historical cost data, conceptual budgets, and benchmark projects together in one place in ConCntric. This gave the team a single place to see, compare, and use their project history across pursuits.
Shortly after implementation:
What emerged was more than a cleaned-up database. Hathaway Dinwiddie created a living preconstruction environment where years of project experience could be searched, benchmarked, and applied in real time across the team
The impact showed up quickly in how the team worked day to day.
Estimators could pull comparable projects in minutes instead of digging through files.
Teams no longer had to rebuild context for every pursuit.
Historical data became something the team could actively use to guide decisions, not just archive for reference.
This wasn’t about organizing files. It was about making more than 15 years of project experience and project data immediately usable across the team.
“We made the investment to centralize our historical project data in ConCntric. Now we know it’s there, it’s searchable, and anyone on our team can access it immediately.”
Preconstruction Director
Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company
Using Project History to Estimate Faster and Win More Work
Applying ConCntric in Active Pursuits
When a new 50-story high-rise opportunity came up, the team needed a fast, defensible conceptual estimate. And this time, they didn’t start from scratch or rely on memory.
Using ConCntric, Hathaway Dinwiddie benchmarked directly against comparable high-rise project history that was normalized to today’s dollars and the potential project’s location – then quickly produced a clean, one-page conceptual estimate grounded in real project data.
“Using ConCntric, we benchmarked a 50-story high-rise against past projects and produced a one-page conceptual estimate in a fraction of the time it would have taken before.”
Preconstruction Director
Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company
per benchmark analysis
But the bigger shift isn’t just speed. It’s confidence.
Instead of relying on assumptions, disconnected spreadsheets, or whoever happened to remember the last project, the team could work from structured, searchable project intelligence inside ConCntric. Estimates became easier to defend, easier to validate, and faster to build around real comparable history.
That same visibility carried into pursuits and design-build interviews. Instead of simply describing their process, Hathaway Dinwiddie could walk owners through how costs evolved, where risks emerged, and how value engineering decisions were made over time using a connected preconstruction environment inside ConCntric.
“With ConCntric, we can walk owners through our risk tracking, cost development, and value engineering history in a structured environment. It clearly demonstrates the depth of our preconstruction process.”
Preconstruction Director
Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company
That changes the conversation. Instead of reacting to questions, the team can lead with data, context, and a clearer narrative around how decisions are made. And in competitive pursuits, that visibility matters.
The Operational Impact
Up to 8 hours saved per project when assembling conceptual estimates using historical benchmarks
~90% of 2010–2025 project data centralized and searchable in ConCntric
Stronger, more data-driven design-build interviews
By turning almost 20 years of project history into something structured and accessible, Hathaway Dinwiddie has made its experience easier to apply across the entire organization, not just for individual estimators.
Inside ConCntric, project history became more than reference material. It became a connected layer of preconstruction intelligence supporting benchmarking, conceptual estimating, risk tracking, value engineering ideas, and budget forecasting in one environment.
More importantly, Hathaway Dinwiddie is using ConCntric to reinforce what has always set the team apart: thoughtful planning, disciplined execution, and long-term perspective.
While historical project intelligence was the starting point, it established a strong foundation for leveraging broader ConCntric workflows over time, connecting project data, decisions, and preconstruction coordination across the lifecycle of the work.
That’s what allows the team to move faster, align earlier, and show up stronger in pursuits.
If This Feels Familiar
If your team is still digging through past projects to build benchmarks, you already know the gap.
You have the data. You have the experience. The challenge is being able to use it quickly, consistently, and across every job.
For Hathaway Dinwiddie, bringing more than 15 years of project history into ConCntric changed more than how information was stored. It impacted how the team estimates, benchmarks, prepares for pursuits, and applies what they’ve learned across projects. And it’s only the beginning of what a connected preconstruction environment can support across the project lifecycle.
