Maber

• Real-time project profitability
• Faster, more accurate reporting
• Reduced manual administration

Maber needed a practice management solution that could provide reliable, accessible financial and project information across its four studios. As the architecture practice grew, disconnected systems and spreadsheets made it increasingly difficult to understand project profitability, monitor performance and plan resources with confidence.

Fresh Projects offered a centralised platform that brought project budgets, time tracking, resource planning and reporting together. Having this information in one place meant teams could work from consistent, up-to-date data rather than relying on separate spreadsheets and manually compiled reports.

The platform also supported a more straightforward approach to financial oversight, allowing project managers and practice leaders to access relevant information without introducing unnecessary administrative complexity.

For Maber, the key benefit was establishing a more reliable view of financial and operational performance across the business, supporting better-informed decisions as the practice continued to grow.

As Maber grew into a multi-studio architecture practice, its existing systems struggled to provide the financial and operational visibility needed to manage projects effectively.

Key challenges included limited visibility of project profitability across studios, inconsistent reporting between teams and the time required to gather and reconcile financial information from different sources.

Leadership teams lacked confidence that the information available reflected current project performance, making it harder to assess financial risks, allocate resources and make timely commercial decisions.

Manual processes also increased administrative workloads, diverting time away from project delivery and practice management.

Before implementing Fresh Projects, Maber relied on a combination of spreadsheets and separate systems to manage project finances, resource information and performance reporting.

Information was distributed across different tools, requiring manual compilation and reconciliation to produce reports. This made it difficult for leadership teams to access a consistent, up-to-date picture of project profitability and overall practice performance.

As the business expanded across multiple studios, maintaining reliable reporting became increasingly time-consuming and administratively demanding.

Implementing Fresh Projects has given Maber greater visibility and control over financial and operational performance across its four studios.

By consolidating project budgets, timesheets, resource information and reporting into a shared platform, the practice now has access to consistent, real-time project profitability data. This enables leadership teams to make more informed decisions around project delivery, financial management and resource allocation.

Reporting has become faster, simpler and more accurate, while reduced manual administration and reconciliation allow teams to spend less time compiling information and more time delivering projects.

The platform has also helped establish greater consistency in financial oversight across the practice, improving confidence in the information used to make commercial decisions.

Although the published case study does not specify a numerical return on investment, the reported benefits include reduced administrative effort, improved reporting efficiency and more reliable financial insight.

Fresh Projects continues to support Maber as it manages complex projects and develops its multi-studio operations.

Maber is a UK-based architecture practice with more than 70 employees working across four studios. Its portfolio includes projects in education, healthcare, culture and heritage.

Fresh Projects is specialist cloud-based practice management software for architecture, engineering and built-environment consultancies. The platform brings together project profitability, resource planning, timesheets, fee management, forecasting and business reporting.

Learn more about Fresh Projects: https://www.gofreshprojects.com