Kevin Rowe
Kevin’s entire career has been spent providing paper prints to his architectural, engineering, and construction-based clients. After spending 32 years providing blueprinting services and managing and growing five-fold one of the National Reprographics Shops of the Year in Kansas City, Kevin knew there was a better way to view a project’s plans and specs using digital format documents.
His background includes:
- OCE World Conference on Digital Transformation - Keynote Speaker
- Boston Society of Architects - Keynote on Document Security - Digital Signatures
- President NCRA - Reprographics Association
- Chosen as national technology installer Buzzsaw servers
- Chosen as Wal-Mart’s digital network national print provider
- President and CEO of US Reprographics - the nation’s first national electronic print transfer service
- President and CEO of regional reprographer Western Blue Print, a 100-year-old firm
- Chosen as the Nation's number one reprographics firm in the nation
- Hired by Goldman Sachs to author paper on the “Greening of Plans and Specs”
- Hired by Adobe to create an AEC friendly Adobe Acrobat
- Hired by Xerox to create national training materials
- One of the first Bluebeam dealers in 2002
- Creation of the first wide-format electronic touchscreen workstations – iPlanTables
In the winter of 2010, Kevin sketched out the beginnings of an electronic plan table on the back of a napkin. In 2011, the first iPlanTables was built in the USA in the basement of his home. It is now the leading supplier in the construction/plan review industry.
In the years since Kevin and his company assisted hundreds of clients to go digital in their plan review and markup process. He challenged the construction industry’s “I’ve always done it this way” mentality. He showed that even an entrenched work team can learn powerful new processes using a wide-format touch screen monitor that lets you use the entire monitor without the constant panning, zooming, and scrolling on small desktop monitors or laptops.
His mission is about providing a solution to paper drawings. Paper spreadsheets. Paper documents. To lost time searching for the documents in back storage rooms. To saving countless man hours viewing project documents. In six words, it’s all about solutions and service.
And many clients become repeat customers providing multiple iPlanTables touchscreen display workstations to their department and company staff.
From a sit-stand desktop workstation for individual use, to a wall mount touch screen application for training or conference room mode, iPlanTables electronic workstations provides a “better than paper” solution.
Partners include Procore, Bluebeam, Autodesk, PlanGrid, ePlanSoft, and PlanSwift.
Kevin has a truly unique perspective in defining the marketplace for hardware and software implementation in the specified area of project information management.