5 Remote Construction Tools Enabling Easy Construction

A fall out of the pandemic is that adopting remote digital tools is no more a choice but a necessity and the construction industry is fast waking up to it. Selecting the right remote construction tools will make your remote construction team more productive and efficient. Here are five remote construction tools.

Holobuilder

An Artificial Intelligence driven enterprise grade 360° progress documentation and analysis platform, HoloBuilder is a super-fast and efficient workflow tool for construction teams. It enables you to create a 360° digital replica of your job site, access it remotely from anywhere and analyse progress with Artificial Intelligence. It provides a complete record of construction activities, thus doubts are eliminated when progress is tracked remotely.

To get started you need a HoloBuilder’s mobile app synced with a 360° camera. Up to 11 standard images are replaced by one 360° picture. and the documentation speed is doubled by SpeedMode. You may identify your exact location on the sheet and simply walkthrough from one capture waypoint to another. As you arrive, the JobWalk App will automatically trigger your 360 camera. These 360° photos are then automatically organized by location, time & content and stored in a secure cloud server environment. Its Enterprise Dashboard is a central point of 360°access to all the projects in your company or region. It also has an intuitive user interface for project administration and account. Secured with advanced technology like Single Sign-On (SSO),it enables even the largest companies to easily manage all departments, cost centers, teams, or regions within one overall company environment. Holobuilder will thus help you in:

Tracking and analysing daily or weekly site progress in 360°.
Reducing documentation time.
Staying up-to-date with current site conditions anytime, and from anywhere.
Creating impressive handover documents for owners.
Automating construction processes with an Artificial Intelligence solution called “SiteAI”. It uses Computer Vision and Deep Learning to analyse materials, objects and structures captured in the 360° imagery data.

PlanGrid

PlanGrid is specialized for document and drawing management, as well as local and remote construction team collaboration. Managing inevitable workflows like reviewing submittals and responding to RFIs can be inefficient and time-consuming. But, the suite of tools in PlanGrid simplify the complexity of each workflow, and engage both the field and office to deliver quality projects as per schedule. PlanGrid enables you to standardize your processes with insight across the entire project lifecycle saving you a lot of time and also help you in the following ways:

Any number of sheets uploaded, can be published and distributed to your team in minutes.
PlanGrid’s OCR technology and machine learning links, scans, and labels all the sheets, before making them suitable to be loaded instantly on any device.
All model data can be seamlessly transferred from Revit to PlanGrid, without any double entry and manual uploads.
All sheet titles, numbers, and data properties are transferred with accuracy.

You may start by downloading the Revit plugin and leveraging the BIM data to see data properties, such as dimensions, material type or manufacturer, directly on the sheet before viewing in 3D to visualize the final work better.

Builderstorm

When it comes to user interface, functional perspective, and your needs, this software is highly flexible. It has an integrated and intelligently linked system allowing the same information to be accessed from several different areas of the site, depending on what is being viewed such as a link or icon in the header or a context-sensitive menu, within the content you’re viewing, how information is displayed or modification of any given user’s permissions, which you could set within the user’s profile or the user permission listing, or even within the permission matrix. This cloud-based construction management app serves mobile devices with the following functions, enabling you to:

Record the tasks completed by all the workers on every project.
Keep accurate records of labour costs and measure costs against any activity.
Manage all your vehicles throughout the company ensuring that they are up-to-date besides tracking who has checked a vehicle in or out.
Create, track and manage your company assets across all the projects.
Enables all site teams to on/off hire items remotely and stores asset documents.
Communicate, annotate and update drawings in real-time with multiple collaborators across your entire project team through interactive drawing features.
Perform Building Information Modeling (BIM) compliance and keep regular backups of project files and data.

The following elements are extremely flexible with BuilderStorm:

An integrated, intelligently linked system that enables you to access anything from anywhere.
Custom Fields that enables you to store as much varied information as you require, in each section.
A User Interface which can be expanded or collapsed so you can display what you want.

Co Construct

It is the ultimate construction project management software, targeting a user base of custom builders, remodelers, and design-build firms. Its software comes in web-based and mobile formats such as iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Android devices, and allows you to perform the following functionalities.

Making it easy for your field team to log what happens each day, thus keeping you in the know.
Saving time in production meetings by viewing the daily history for one job or viewing everything that happened on a day across all of your projects.
Keeping your clients informed automatically about progress, without extra effort, by choosing which log notes they can see.
Spotting trends over time with custom flags, by reporting on issues like late subs and missing orders to spot recurring issues on projects.
Entry of updates quickly by team members in the field who can input log notes via the mobile app in seconds by typing or using voice-to-text.

Buildgradar

Builgradar finds new projects in real-time, tracks the relevant construction sites in your target area, and analyses the background information of the involved companies, automatically. A leading search engine for construction projects worldwide, it is satellite-supported and provides leads, analytics, and notifications on both new and ongoing construction projects. Using search algorithms with geo-informatics, machine learning, and satellite image analysis it provides real-time information on more than a million construction projects, enabling the users to find revenue opportunities, detect industry trends, and obtain a market overview. To win the bid for a contract, you must know the news about plan alterations faster than your competitor. Building Radar enables you to keep ahead of your competition by:

Tracking relevant construction sites in your target market for you.
Enabling you to automate the spotting and tracking of interesting construction sites and thereby focusing your scarce resources on winning the client.
Marking interesting construction sites on the platform and receiving an Email for every adjustment directly into your mailbox.
Researching millions of construction sites with real-time data.
Filtering relevant construction leads and receiving push notifications whenever a new construction project in your target area is detected.
Exporting your key projects into CRM’s like Microsoft Excel, Salesforce, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics or your company’s very own CRM-system. Your CRM Integration is activated with just a few clicks, so the setup becomes hassle free for your tech team.

Pursuing new tenders days ahead of your opponents, thanks to real-time data updates.
Providing you a game-changing boost in active selling time by up to 10 hours per week!

While managing projects and teams in different locations, it is challenging to stay updated on tasks and deadlines without the regular status meetings or working regularly with colleagues in the office. In this scenario the digital tools come to your aid in remote construction project management. There is a growing demand for digital tools to boost efficiency and deployment of technologies such as AR and VR, 3D Printing, Drones, Robotics, Slack, Zoom, Trello, Dropbox, Myob, Assignar etc. have only whetted this appetite further.