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Pope Construction: from the office to the construction site

When a construction company grows, everything about the business grows with it — crews, job sites, subcontractor relationships, and paperwork. Pope Construction Company, a family-owned general contractor based in Statesboro, Georgia, has spent more than five decades building that kind of growth the right way: one project, one client relationship, and one satisfied community partner at a time. Founded in 1972, the company built its name on residential construction before expanding into commercial construction management and design-build services across the Southeast. Today Pope Construction handles everything from ground-up commercial buildings to complex renovation and expedited-schedule projects for banks, municipalities, and public-safety agencies throughout the region.

That reputation for reliability has fueled real momentum. Over the past several years, Pope Construction's project pipeline has expanded significantly, adding staff, opening new job sites, and taking on larger and more technically demanding builds. Growth like that is great news for a business — but it also puts pressure on the systems behind the scenes. More active projects mean more bid packages, more contracts, more submittals, and, for a construction company, one thing in particular: a lot more drawings.

THE CHALLENGE

Construction runs on paper — or at least on the documents that used to only exist on paper. Bid sets, contracts, RFIs, closeout binders, and day-to-day office printing all have to move fast and look professional, especially when a company is competing for larger commercial contracts. On top of that everyday office volume, Pope Construction's estimating and project management teams were leaning harder than ever on large-format drawings: architectural plans, engineering blueprints, and site layouts that have to be reproduced clearly, accurately, and on demand for supervisors, subcontractors, and inspectors in the field.

As the company's project load grew, its existing office copier and its aging wide-format printer both started to show their age. Print jobs that used to take minutes were taking longer, color quality on client-facing proposals wasn't as sharp as the team wanted, and getting a full-size blueprint set out to a job site quickly had become its own daily challenge. Pope Construction needed equipment that could keep pace with a growing pipeline of commercial work without slowing down the office or the field.

THE SOLUTION

To support that growth, Pope Construction upgraded its office with two purpose-built machines, pairing a high-volume color multifunction copier for everyday office production with a dedicated wide-format system built specifically for construction documents.

Kyocera TASKalfa MZ3501ci

Pope Construction was among the first businesses in the area to bring in a Kyocera TASKalfa MZ3501ci, one of the newest models in Kyocera's MZ series of A3 color multifunction printers. The MZ3501ci prints, copies, and scans at up to 35 pages per minute in both color and black-and-white, giving the office the speed to turn around proposals, contracts, and reports without the wait. Dual 500-sheet trays plus a multi-purpose tray keep the machine loaded for high-volume days, while cloud-ready scanning and document routing make it easy for project managers to get signed paperwork out of the office and into the hands of clients and subcontractors.

KIP 7172G 4D Wide Format Printer

For blueprints, site plans, and full architectural sets, Pope Construction added a KIP 7172G 4D — a two-roll, wide-format monochrome system built specifically for technical printing environments like architecture, engineering, and construction firms. The 7172G 4D reproduces detailed line work and technical drawings clearly at production speed, with a two-roll capacity that lets the office switch between drawing sizes without stopping to reload media. Where a full blueprint set used to be a bottleneck, it's now something Pope Construction's team can produce in-house, on demand, whenever a job site or a client needs an updated set.

THE RESULTS

35 PPM Color print, copy & scan speed on the MZ3501ci

2 ROLLS On-demand blueprint capacity with the KIP 7172G 4D

50+ YEARS Of family-owned construction service in Statesboro

With both machines now in place, Pope Construction's office runs the way its job sites do — efficiently, and without waiting on paperwork. Bid packages and proposals move faster, blueprint sets are ready the same day a project calls for them, and the office is set up to keep pace as the company continues to take on larger and more complex commercial projects across the Southeast.

ABOUT POPE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

Pope Construction Company, Inc. is a family-owned general contractor headquartered in Statesboro, Georgia, founded in 1972. The company provides competitive bidding, construction management, and design-build services for commercial clients throughout the region, and has been recognized locally for its growth and commitment to the Statesboro-Bulloch County community.

Is your business outgrowing its current copiers or wide-format printer? Reach out to our team to talk through what the latest Kyocera and KIP systems could do for your workflow.