Key challenges facing the Construction & Real Estate industry
Project Visibility and Reporting
Leaders often lack real-time visibility into budgets, timelines, risks, and resource allocation across projects and portfolios. This can often result in poor decision making and delays to projects which ultimately leads to waste of resources.
Collaboration Across Distributed Teams
Teams frequently work across multiple locations and organisations, making coordination and accountability difficult. Processes get held up, communication gets slow and projects managers waste time in trying to understand the current status.
Inefficient Manual Processes
Manual approvals, reporting, and document management slow operations and increase the likelihood of errors.How Smartsheet helps the Construction & Real Estate industry
Smartsheet provides a flexible, secure platform for managing work across construction and real estate teams, enabling real-time visibility, structured collaboration and standardised processes, while remaining easy to adopt and scale across the organisation.
Smartsheet is built with enterprise-grade security and compliance controls to support regulated environments and help teams maintain consistency, traceability and auditability across their work.
- Centralised real-time visibility across teams and portfolios.
- Standard templates and workflows.
- Standardised governance and reporting.
- Secure, scalable collaboration – one source of truth.
- Automated alerts and controls.
- Clear ownership and audit trails.
- Rapid adoption without heavy training overheads.
Key construction and real estate use cases
Property Development – Track the development of property across all stages, from conception to completion, enabling developers to maximise revenues, manage risks and monitor investment opportunities.
Construction – Streamline all phases of the construction project lifecycle ensuring you deliver projects on time and on budget. Single source of truth of your projects and improved visibility help you to make better decisions.
Retrofit & Decarbonisation – Manage all upgrades to existing buildings to increase energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions and meet net zero targets across short, medium and long term timeframes. These typically involve insulation, electric heating / heat pumps and renewable energy systems. Portfolio dashboards enable you to see progress, benefits and risks across your portfolio of buildings.
Office fit-outs – Create modern office environments that workers desire, by tracking the entire fit-out process through planning, procurement, build to ensure you develop commercial space on time and on budget.
Capital Expenditure (CapEx) Programs – Large property portfolios require ongoing capital investment, often involving new roofs, HVAC upgrades, safety improvements. Portfolio dashboards can show CapEx budget vs spend, maintenance priorities etc.
Property / Asset Management – Maximise the financial performance, value and lifespan of real estate projects through strategic planning, capital improvements, and operational efficiencies. Key projects often include repositioning assets, energy efficiency retrofits, tenant lease restructuring and proactive maintenance strategies.
Project and portfolio management (PPM) – Gain a real-time view of projects, programmes, studies and initiatives across R&D, clinical development, regulatory and manufacturing activities, with clear visibility into timelines, risks and dependencies to support prioritisation and informed decision-making.
IT PMO – Support the delivery of digital transformation initiatives across the pharmaceutical organisation, including system modernisation, cloud migration, regulatory systems and research platforms using Smartsheet. Establish consistent governance, track programme delivery and provide real-time visibility across IT and digital portfolios.
Portfolio dashboard
- Full overview of all projects
- Identify projects that require intervention
- Spot risks and issues sooner, and get back on track
- Automate reporting, saving time
- Full visibility of all activity by region, type, season, and more
Project dashboard
- Track progress across the project
- Project teams are aligned
- Measure progress against budget
- Identify and mitigate risks and issues
- Measure Return on Investment
These examples are for demonstration purposes. When creating solutions, we always build to your specific requirements and ways of working to optimise adoption.
Construction / Real Estate sector customers using Smartsheet
Why choose Cheetah Transformation as your Smartsheet partner?
Industry knowledge
We bring in-depth knowledge of the construction & real estate industry and work with leading organisations across the industry, combining extensive knowledge of Smartsheet with real-world construction & real estate sector experience.
Tailored support for all sizes
We support organisations worldwide with agile, scalable solutions.
Global reach, local presence
With a strong international partner network, we operate worldwide to deliver solutions wherever they’re needed.
Smartsheet Specialists
As certified Smartsheet experts, we help the construction & real estate industry streamline processes to deliver successful projects more quickly and efficiently.Choosing the right partner matters just as much as choosing the right platform
Cheetah Transformation offers:
- Smartsheet Platinum Partner status
- G-Cloud compliant services
- Cyber Essentials Plus certified
- Construction & real estate sector delivery experience
- Framework-friendly engagement models
Cheetah Transformation – supporting the Construction & Real Estate sector
Nestled in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales are award-winning workplace fit-out and furniture specialists, Ultimate (Commercial Interiors) Ltd.
They have a large and impressive portfolio of clients including CEG, Savills, PepsiCo, Skipton Building Society, National Trust, Arup, Holiday Inn and Marriot, for whom they have helped optimise the value and return on their project investment, inspiring creative design with sustainable interiors, products and delivering environments that embrace collaboration, connectivity and wellbeing.
Ultimate embarked on a digital transformation as part of a five-year strategy to make them a more efficient and truly customer-centric organisation, turning to Cheetah Transformation and our market-leading Smartsheet expertise to help them achieve their vision.
View the case studyI rarely come across real talents who stand out like Rob Eberstein and Gary Thornton.
I have worked with them in a very challenging Smartsheet implementation in the Pharma field. They dealt with tough situations effortlessly. Rob and Gary were always available to listen to any questions we had and found creative solutions. Cheetah Transformation earned doubtless my highest recommendation.
We lacked a dependable, centralised system for escalating decisions or communicating outcomes back down the chain
We now don’t need to spend time digging through months of emails to find a particular discussion from a meeting or chase meeting participants for status updates. Those micro-frustrations used to add up and slow everyone down. Now, everything’s in one place, saving us time. I’ve loved working with Cheetah, they’re fantastic at actively listening, interpreting our vision—even when we’re not using technical language—and translating that into a functional solution.
The team was first class all the way
I worked with Gary Thornton and Rob Eberstein from Cheetah on a complex SmartSheet Implementation. I was the Exec Sponsor for the implementation, and could not be happier with the results. The team was first class all the way, and SmartSheet is now a foundational application in my organization for managing both internal and external projects. Gary and Rob always made themselves available, gave expert insights and always delivered. They are also just really great people. I highly recommend them!
5 star services, from start to finish
As a specialist fit out business, it is extremely hard to find a solution that is compatible with our processes & vision. What Cheetah have delivered, has surpass our expectations and I’m excited to see the improvements this will make to our business, and for our delivery partners and clients. Cheetah team have supported us, all the way and been a great bunch of people to work with. We look forward to phase 2, later this year where we introduce other departments & our quality management system integrated into our PMS. See you on Phase 2!
They went above and beyond at every step
Working with Cheetah Transformation has been an outstanding experience that truly elevated our project management capabilities. Gary and Youssef were exceptional throughout—highly knowledgeable, consistently responsive, and a pleasure to partner with. Their solution not only met our needs but transformed the way we manage projects, bringing significantly greater efficiency and transparency to our workflows. They went above and beyond at every step, and we couldn’t be more pleased with the results. Highly recommended.
A great partner for any team looking to improve execution and clarity through smart digital solutions
I highly recommend Youssef for his outstanding support during the Smartsheet implementation. His deep understanding of both the tool and the needs of our teams led to the development of a robust solution that brought much-needed transparency to our project management processes. Youssef went beyond expectations—not only ensuring the system was technically solid, but also continuously improving it by adding meaningful information while simplifying the inputs required from users. His ability to balance structure with usability made a real difference in user adoption and overall project visibility. A great partner for any team looking to improve execution and clarity through smart digital solutions.
Outstanding service and expertise – driving productivity and collaboration at scale
We’ve been working closely with Cheetah Transformation, and I cannot overstate the value that they bring to our team. Their depth of knowledge in Smartsheet, combined with their responsiveness, problem-solving mindset, and consistently friendly demeanor, has made a huge difference to our operations. Smartsheet, when implemented effectively, is a game-changer. It automates repetitive project tasks, provides intuitive and visually engaging dashboards, and creates a single source of truth that enhances visibility across functions. With Cheetah Transformation’s expert support, we were able to harness these capabilities — saving time, increasing productivity, and improving collaboration across multiple teams and time zones.
Moving from a siloed way of working to a centralised approach has been really helpful.
We now have a solid foundation to identify inefficiencies, spot gaps in responsibility, and flag issues early without having to dig through email chains from months ago
We have eliminated manual and repetitive tasks and improved real-time collaboration and productivity.
As a result, we’re seeing significant returns on investment.
Excellent support and solutions from Rob & Hanna
Our events team have worked with Cheetah Transformation for over a year now, and they have helped us create a bespoke project management tool with Smartsheet, that has been pivotal in the way we work and how we report on our business.
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