Before the Shovel Hits the Ground
For fifty years, Broadmoor, LLC has been a trusted general contractor across the Gulf Coast and Greater New Orleans region. The company delivers some of the area’s most unique and culturally significant projects, earning a reputation for strategic planning and risk management long before construction begins.
President & CEO, Ryan Mouledous, a third-generation builder, shares:
“I entered the industry because I liked the tangible output a project can provide. But over time, I’ve taken more pride in the growth of our people and the strength of our culture. My goal is to leave Broadmoor better than I found it — positioned for future success.”
That legacy of foresight and planning is central to Broadmoor’s success. Yet, even with a proven process, the earliest stages of design can introduce risk. The organization prides itself on delivering on time and within budget, but Broadmoor experienced a common misalignment that threatened that customer promise.
The Challenge: Misalignment and Costly Changes
Broadmoor’s teams are seasoned and disciplined. They have a written preconstruction manual and years of lessons learned. However, in practice, the preconstruction process remained vulnerable to breakdowns.
Each new project began with stakeholders who had different definitions of what the process should look like. Meetings ran long, agendas drifted, and project leaders spent valuable time getting everyone back onto the same page.
Worse, critical red flags surfaced after designs had already advanced.
“Success in design-build lies between expectations and reality,” said Project Executive Tanner Broughton. “Too often, those expectations weren’t clear at the start. And when they aren’t clear, you risk finding out too late that reality doesn’t match.”
The cost of that misalignment was staggering. Entire floors could require redesign. Schedules could slip by months. Clients faced unexpected change orders. And Broadmoor’s carefully cultivated “On Time. Within Budget” reputation was at risk.
The Solution: The Precon Playbook
Broadmoor implemented the Precon Playbook, a software designed to prevent exactly these types of late-stage surprises. For Ryan and the leadership team, the Precon Playbook was not another internal project management program; instead, a platform that interfaced with all decision-makers, including the client. It standardized meeting agendas, metrics, and stakeholder roles across every project, aligning the entire stakeholder team.
Ryan noted:
“The tool allows us to know exactly what path we need to walk through to get there.”
Instead of rehashing terms at the start of every meeting, the team now shares a common language. Owners and architects no longer rely on paper reports printed from an internal program. They can log in and view progress in real time. Stakeholders all see the same statuses, and decisions are communicated in the tool. Most importantly, red flags become apparent far earlier in the process.
For Tanner Broughton, a Project Executive, the difference was immediate:
“It’s less about preparation now. The prep is already done in the software. We focus instead on execution and report back what’s been done.”
The Turning Point: A Tangible ROI
The platform’s industry-influenced checklists helped the Broadmoor team avoid an extremely costly miss.
Tanner recalls a specific example that underscored the platform’s ROI.
During schematic design on a recent project, Precon Playbook flagged a checklist item that required input from the safety director, something that would typically have been addressed in later phases.
That early involvement led to a site survey, where the team discovered a power line running within 10 feet of the planned building footprint.
“There’s no safe way to build that,” Tanner explained. “If we hadn’t caught it until design development, we would have had to redesign the entire floor plan. That would have been months of rework and tens of thousands of dollars in cost.”
Instead, because the Precon Playbook required the question to be reviewed early, the team simply shifted the building 20 feet during schematic design—a quick adjustment, not a costly one.
The Results: Delivering on the Customer Promise
With Precon Playbook, Broadmoor has transformed preconstruction into a lean, accountable, and transparent process.
- Time savings — Meetings are shorter, decisions are documented, and the team can move from project to project with ease.
- Cost savings — Risks are identified earlier, preventing costly redesigns and change orders.
- Client confidence — Owners see transparency in action, with professional dashboards that reflect Broadmoor’s commitment to accountability and proactive planning.
- Scalability — Standardized playbooks give Broadmoor the ability to take on more work without sacrificing quality.
“Time is finite,” Ryan emphasized. “By standardizing the process in one place, people finish the task, move into another project, and don’t have to wrap up loose ends. The decisions are captured in the tool. We move forward. We deliver—On Time.
The Bottom Line
For Broadmoor, Precon Playbook has become more than a piece of software. It’s become a safeguard against the very risks that erode budgets and schedules in preconstruction. It gives their teams the clarity to align expectations early, the accountability to make decisions at the right time, and the discipline to protect clients from costly surprises.
As Tanner put it most simply:
“Absolutely, it’s worth it. Precon Playbook ensures the right questions are asked at the right time — so critical items are not missed.”
By weaving accountability into every preconstruction step, Broadmoor continues its fifty-year legacy of building with foresight, discipline, and trust — delivering lasting confidence in how projects are designed and executed.
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