Nucor: Achieving Greater Consistency & Efficiency with VPO

Nucor is North America’s largest steel producer, with more than 33,000 employees and operations across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. As the company continued to grow its core steelmaking operations, its capital construction program expanded with it.

Multiple greenfield and brownfield projects were underway across Nucor’s divisions, each with its own approach to construction management. The corporate construction group needed a more consistent way to manage project information, track work, and establish common practices across an increasingly complex portfolio.

Project coordination also depended heavily on email. With OEMs, equipment suppliers, contractors, vendors, and Nucor teams all involved, the volume of information quickly became hard to manage. McBroome described the team as “overrun and drowning in emails” before VPO.

Security added another layer of complexity. Nucor needed to collaborate with multiple external partners while protecting confidential bid and commercial information from other participants in the same project.

The company needed a cloud-based construction management environment that could standardize workflows, support large numbers of internal and external users, and maintain appropriate access to project information throughout design, sourcing, construction, and commissioning.