Neilsoft Launches ConstructMonitor SaaS Solution for Construction Quality

Neilsoft, a provider of engineering services and software solutions, has launched ConstructMonitor, a SaaS solution for managing construction quality and progress. Developed in collaboration with Tokyo-based Fujita Corporation, ConstructMonitor aims to address quality issues in large construction projects such as commercial offices, high-rise buildings, data centers, hospitals, industrial plants, factories, malls, IT parks, and other infrastructure projects.

Several large / complex construction projects globally today adopt BIM (Building Information Modeling) methodology integrating various stakeholders (Owners, Architects, Engineers, Contractors) with a single source of truth across the entire project lifecycle through a Common Data Environment (CDE). While BIM has found significantly higher adoption at the Design Phase of projects, construction quality & variation from as-designed BIM models during the construction phase remains a challenge. ConstructMonitor has been developed to ensure better quality & progress monitoring and identify variations from the as-designed BIM model.

Quality defects at construction site, such as design deviations, incorrect element sizes, and missing structural elements, have cascading repercussions on the construction sequence. These also lead to the need for rework, as well as safety hazards, material wastage, cost overruns, and delays. ConstructMonitor enables General Contractors / EPC firms / Architects / Project & Construction Management firms / Owners to remotely monitor design deviations at construction site (vis-à-vis Design BIM models) with LiDAR-enabled iPhones (on a daily or weekly basis) and/or terrestrial 3D laser scanners (once a month). Construction-site reality captured using point cloud data is relayed via our cloud platform to a processing server where specialized algorithms make object-level comparison with the BIM design data and identify deviations.

Raghuram NM, President of Neilsoft India Solutions Business, said, “Neilsoft’s BIM journey started around 2007 and we have been fortunate to get to support leading Architects / Engineering firms / Contractors globally on several BIM projects. BIM as a methodology has seen increasing acceptance over the last 15+ years and the Construction industry today is very actively embracing technology to improve efficiencies across the project life-cycle. At Neilsoft, we are constantly investing in developing multi-disciplinary engineering & technology capabilities to add higher value to our customers in their Digital Transformation initiatives. We are developing our own IP-led Solutions to address real-world customer challenges across the Design-Construct-Operate phases and ConstructMonitor is our first IP-led solution for addressing Quality issues during the Construction phase.”