Leading Web-based construction plan-management company selected as preferred supplier for nationally recognized home builder
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – November 20, 2006 – Plan Express, Inc., a leading Web-based construction document management company in the United States, announced today that it has been selected to provide a full suite of services to K. Hovnanian Homes (NYSE: HOV), one of the nation's largest home builders. The scope of work will include the development of a secure on-line plan room that will enable Hovnanian to centralize its document management, ordering, printing and distribution as well as their archiving needs.
Plan Express is the only company providing a seamless suite of document management services to the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) market. Utilizing a customer-friendly web interface, Hovnanian can place its plans, specs and other documents in their secure plan room where they can be viewed and ordered for print and delivery via express the next morning, same-day pick-up at select FedEx Kinko's locations or via digital download.
"Our agreement with Plan Express will enable us to streamline the entire document ordering process." remarked Paul Doherty, Vice President of Home Production Processes for K. Hovnanian Homes. "Thanks to the ease and efficiency of Plan Express's centralized, Web-based service, we expect to realize considerable cost savings in the coming year."
Hovnanian is one of the latest high-profile, nationally recognized companies to partner with Plan Express. Delivering more than 1,500 packages a day, Plan Express's leading architecture customers include: Hnedak Bobo Group, Douglas Fredrikson and the Friedmutter Group. Its general contractor customers include: Lakeview Construction, Shrader Martinez and Cauldwell Wingate. Among Plan Expresses retail customers are: The Gap, Staples, Starbucks and Williams Sonoma.
"Plan Express is pleased to have K. Hovnanian as a customer," said CEO DeWayne Adamson. "They are a national force in the home building market with a tremendous reputation for quality and attention to detail. Our goal is to help them to improve their efficiency and productivity through our state-of-the-art document management technology and services."
About Plan Express Inc.
Headquartered in Memphis, TN., with regional offices located across the United States, Plan Express (www.planexpress.net) is the only company providing a seamless suite of electronic document management services to the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) market. Launched in 1994, Plan Express is a centralized web-based construction plan management, reproduction and distribution business that is spearheading a paradigm shift in a historically de-centralized industry.
About K. Hovnanian Homes, Inc.
Founded in 1959, Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. designs, constructs and markets a variety of for-sale housing in more than 400 residential communities in 20 states. K. Hovnanian Homes ranks among the largest homebuilding companies in the U.S., with total revenues of $6 billion on 20,000 home deliveries in fiscal 2006.
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