Sprint knows that builders are constantly under pressure to get their jobs done. Whether it’s finishing up a big residential development or simply making a few repairs, Sprint helps you get that work done faster with Nextel Direct Connect®. With the touch of a button, you can connect in under a second with your GC on site, your lumber guy across the country, or any other Nextel Direct Connect® user on the fastest national push-to-talk network.

Need to get in touch with all of your workers? No problem. Just set up a group using Group Connect® directly on your push-to-talk phone and get in touch with up to 20 other Nextel users on the job or across the country over Sprint’s nationwide push-to-talk network.

Got your hands full? With the NextMail® service you can send emails to your workers in the field just by pushing the Direct Connect® button and speaking your directions, job site information, or contract details into your push-to-talk phone. You can easily close out jobs, contact clients, record measurements and send those notes out to up to 50 email recipients, even if they aren't a Sprint customer.

If your site is remote and outside of the network, you can still reach your employees. Direct Talk^SM lets you connect with other Direct Talk^SM users up to a six mile range when you are off the network with the push-to-talk button.¹ You can choose from 10 channels and 15 codes and make a private line for your group to communicate over. Best of all, you only need to carry one phone, rather than a phone and a separate walkie-talkie for those off-network situations.²

Nextel Direct Connect® services help you keep in close contact with your workers, optimize your work flow, and just get more done.

Generation Homes, a high-end production homebuilder located in central California. With 45 full-time employees, 60 subcontractors, 200 new home starts and over 25,000 potential options to choose from, coordinating the numerous moving parts essential to the everyday operation of the business was quite cumbersome. Managing and organizing just the operational data was becoming overwhelming and taking a significant portion of employee and supervisor time.

Sprint furnished the Generation Homes’ supervisors with BlackBerry handheld devices equipped with the BuilderMT scheduling application. These devices not only provided quality voice and data applications, but they also allowed supervisors to communicate instantly with crew members, headquarters, suppliers and customers while mobile virtually anytime. The complete solution allowed supervisors to receive project and customer information remotely and then transmit updated information back to operational employees.

Employees now transmit updates from the field over the Internet and back to the information systems. These updates include payable approvals to keep project details current and accurate, which has resulted in multiple benefits. As a result of the solution, Generation Homes has experienced a significant increase in efficiency, decreasing new home construction time by nearly 25% while increasing company capacity by nearly 30%. More importantly, the solutions have allowed Generation Homes to be more efficient, reducing total budgets by more than $480,000 and reclaiming nearly $500,000 in project funding.