the 2023 preconstruction 50 list
BuiltWorlds is proud to present the 2023 Preconstruction Top 50 List. This list identifies the top technology solutions as identified by BuiltWorlds Benchmarking Research related to preconstruction activities in the following six categories:
- Bid Management & Prequalification
- Value Engineering
- Estimating
- Life Cycle Costing
- Scheduling
- Project Modeling & Simulation
For more information on each of these specialty areas and solutions, members may access the 2023 Annual Preconstruction Report and the 2023 Preconstruction Tech Specialty Reports. These reports provide data and insights on the state of adoption, implementation, and quality of these solutions from the contractor's perspective.
how the list was created
Every single company on the list below was identified through BuiltWorlds Benchmarking research and was objectively selected based on primary data input. Our preconstruction survey was completed by contractors across the globe who provided information on the solutions they are currently using, how often they are using them, and the quality of each solution across a variety of criteria. This primary information provided by contractors was then synthesized into a list of the best, and most used, solutions. For each of the 50 solutions below, companies in this list are split into three product categories:
- Top Solutions: These solutions were identified through our research as having widespread adoption and high quality functionality ratings.
- Adopted Solutions: These solutions were identified through our research as adopted by contractors but not widespread adoption. Functionality ratings for these solutions are typically average to high.
- Future Disruptors: These are solutions identified through BuiltWorlds Venture research as solutions that have raised money and have a promising future, but were not identified as a current solution by contractor research participants.
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CATEGORY:
BID /PREQUALIFICATION MANAGEMENT
Building Connected (Autodesk)
The largest real-time construction network that connects owners and builders through an easy-to-use platform to streamline the bid and risk management process. Allows users to collaboratively manage the bidding process to choose the bests bidder.
Product Category: Top Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Ease of Use (Bid Management)
TradeTapp (Autodesk)
TradeTapp allows preconstruction teams to analyze and mitigate project risk by ensuring they only work with the most reliable, top-level subcontractors with access to over 1 million construction professionals.
Product Category: Top Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Ease of Use (Prequalification)
PROCORE (Scheduling Module)
American construction management software as as service company founded in 2002 and headquartered in California. Connecting everyone who builds to everything they need. If you’re in the construction business, then Procore was designed to help your team.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Bid Solicitation
CMiC
CMiC delivers complete ERP and FIELD software solutions for construction and capital projects firms. CMiC’s software transforms how firms optimize productivity, minimize risk and drive growth by planning and managing all financials, projects, resources, and content assets.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Bid Solicitation
Pantera Technology
Intuitive, All-in-one bid management suite tailored for your unique needs. Set up project, collaborate with your team, and bid with simplicity.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Bid Leveling
Contractor Score
A tool that can analyze contractors most recent fiscal year statements and develop a score that contractors can use to solicit their bids on projects. In turn, the score can be shown to potential developers in hopes of giving the developer a better idea and level of trust with the contractors they are hiring for their projects.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Qualifying Vendors
Compass (by Bespoke Metrics)
Compass is a subcontractor prequalification platform with centralized data collection and transparent analytics to assist contractors in selecting the best subcontractors for the job.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Qualifying Vendors
SmartBid
SmartBid is the construction bid management and prequalification software for general contractors worldwide. SmartBid's software enables GCs to access a web-based and mobile platform to streamline their bid project data, documents and subcontractor communications during preconstruction.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Communication of Scope, Cost, or Existing Conditions
Cosuno
Cosuno is a procurement platform for contractors inclusive of cost calculation, price comparison tables, subcontractor networks, and other features that provide a single source of procurement data.
Product Category: Future Disruptor
ConstructConnect
ConstructConnect is a bid management platform that can create projects to distribute ITBs, accesss and qualify subcontractors, and develop bid day reports and pricing comparisons.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Bid Solicitation
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CATEGORY:
VALUE ENGINEERING
Join
The Join platform enables teams to make better design and construction decisions and unlock dramatic improvements in project delivery by connecting projects and people to data.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Collaboration with Stakeholders
SmartSheet
The AEC Collection provides designers, engineers, and contractors a set of BIM and CAD tools that support projects from early-stage design through to construction.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Adoption / Utilization
CATEGORY:
ESTIMATING
WinEstimator, Inc. (Trimble)
Trimble’s WinEstimator Essentials subscription is a database-driven estimating and quantity takeoff solution that provides the essential tools estimators need to confidently build profitable estimates and collaborate throughout their pre-construction workflows.
Product Category: Top Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Adoption / Utilization
DESTINI Estimator
DESTINI Estimator is an on-premise solution designed to help businesses from the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry manage estimation data and teams for streamlining preconstruction processes. Key features include what-if analysis, accounting integration, building information modeling and a historical database.
Product Category: Top Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Adoption / Utilization
Accubid (Trimble)
Trimble Accubid Classic is the original full-featured electrical estimating solution that facilitates the complete construction workflow, from estimating to purchasing, project management, and billing.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Labor Forecasting
ProEst (Autodesk)
ProEst is an Autodesk product which provides contractors the functionality to develop cost estimates and assisted takeoffs during the estimating phase.
Product Category: Top Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Collaboration with Stakeholders
Sage
Sage estimating is a software solution designed to provide electronic takeoffs, cost databases, job costing, and other functionalities for the construction industry.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Collaboration with Stakeholders
On-Screen Takeoff (Classic Quick Bid)
On-Screen Takeoff is a software solution that provides construction estimating software for takeoff functionalities.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Adoption / Utilization
Takeoff (Autodesk)
Autodesk Takeoff allows estimators to perform more accurate 2D takeoffs and generate automated quantities from 3D models in a single online solution. Preconstruction teams are empowered to win more work with integrated takeoffs and quantities that help produce quality estimates for faster, more accurate bidding.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Ease of Use
Bluebeam
Bluebeam solutions empower construction teams with smart digital tools that get the job done faster. Bluebeam keeps teams on the same page through the design process, helps move the project forward during construction, and preserves important project data through completion and beyond.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Adoption / Utilization
InEight
For all industries, InEight's estimating platform provides a cost estimation and integrated platform for general contractors.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Labor Forecasting
Togal.AI
Togal.AI solves the most time-consuming part in the bidding process by utilizing cutting-edge deep machine learning technology to analyze blueprints.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Quantity Takeoff Calculation
CoreCon Technologies
CoreCon construction technology is an all-in-one platform that allows contractors to monitor and track job opportunities, create estimates, and collect vendor and subcontractor bids.
Product Category: Future Disruptor
CATEGORY:
LIFE CYCLE COSTING
LCA One Click
LCA One Click is an automated life cycle assessment tool intended to calculate and reduce the environmental impacts of a building or asset. LCA also has a cost management tool to identify and understand operational costs of an asset.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Asset Ownership Cost Estimation
CATEGORY:
SCHEDULING
Primavera P6 (Oracle)
Manage projects of any size with Primavera P6 EPPM. Robust, and easy-to-use, Primavera P6 EPPM is the solution for globally prioritizing, planning, managing, and executing projects, programs, and portfolios.
Product Category: Top Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Accurate Project Schedule Generation
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project is a project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft. It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a schedule, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.
Product Category: Top Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Adoption / Utilization
SmartPM
SmartPM is a scheduling analytics tool that allows owners and contractors to evaluate the health and quality of a project schedule.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Adoption / Utilization (Scheduling Analytics)
ProPlanner
ProPlanner is an all-in-one scheduling and planning platform with the ability to easily create lookahead schedules, develop analytics dashboards, and enhance collaboration among stakeholders.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Accurate Project Schedule Generation
Asta PowerProject
Asta Powerproject is a platform that allows contractors, subcontractors, and others to create and update project schedules with enhanced flexibility, analytics, and integrations with BIM software.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Adoption / Utilization
PROCORE
A module within PROCORE's platform that allows contractors to integrate schedules into a centralized database where the data can then be shared, customized, analyzed, and filtered.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds Research): Ease of Use
SmartSheet
Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR) is a modern work management platform that empowers companies of all sizes to scale and deliver value as business requirements evolve.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Adoption / Utilization (pull-planning)
Alice Technologies
Alice Technologies is a generative AI optioneering platform that allows users to input asset designs and assess schedule options to complete the work in different ways based on a cost / schedule analysis
Product Category: Future Disruptor
nPlan
nPlan utilizes a machine learning algorithm that forecasts projected schedule outcomes utilizing historical data.
Product Category: Future Disruptor
CATEGORY:
PROJECT MODELING & SIMULATION
Navisworks (Autodesk)
Navisworks is a 3D design review package for Microsoft Windows. Used primarily in construction industries to complement 3D design packages, Navisworks allows users to open and combine 3D models
Product Category: Top Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Coordination / Clash Detection
Revit (Autodesk)
Autodesk Revit is a building information modelling software for architects, landscape architects, structural engineers, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineers, designers and contractors. The original software was developed by Charles River Software, founded in 1997, renamed Revit Technology Corporation in 2000, and acquired by Autodesk in 2002.
Product Category: Top Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Collaboration with Stakeholders
Synchro 4D (Bentley)
4D Scheduling and Simulation - With Synchro 4D modeling, it’s now possible to create constructible elements from any model, turning it into a highly demanded tool for various construction companies.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): 4D Constructibility Sequencing
SOLIDWORKS (Dassault Systemes)
SOLIDWORKS provides the AEC space a common model for developing and rendering complete and accurate designs to be levered across the entire construction lifecycle.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Virtual Renderings / Mockups
Grasshopper (Rhino 3D)
Grasshopper is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3D modeling tools. Unlike RhinoScript, Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming, coding or scripting, but still allows developers and designers to create 3D construction models.
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Collaboration with Stakeholders
TwinMotion (Epic Games)
Epic Games is a web-game and gaming development platform. Epic Games owns Twinmotion – a product that provides the ability to quickly create high-quality visualizations for architecture, construction, urban planning, landscaping and more.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Virtual Renderings / Mockups
Revizto
Revizto is a BIM intelligence platform that connects all stakeholders on the project team. The platform provides predefined workflows and an issue tracker in order to promote streamlined collaboration across team members.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Coordination / Clash Detection
cmBuilder
cmBuilder is a logistics simulation platform that provides contractors 3D generated models based on integrated site plans.
Product Category: Future Disruptor
Assemble (Autodesk)
Assemble enables connected data workflows across key stakeholders to perform design reviews, takeoffs, and more.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Model-Based Cost Estimating
SketchUp
SketchUp, part of Trimble’s Construction sector, is 3D modeling software that’s easy to learn and incredibly fun to use. Today, hundreds of thousands of architects, engineers, contractors, woodworkers, artists, and other creatives use SketchUp Pro, LayOut, Extension Warehouse and the 3D Warehouse to design everything from transit centers to tree-houses and everything in between.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Collaboration with Stakeholders
Fuzor
Fuzor attempts to solve your AEC industry problems. They work closely with our clients to create unique cutting edge solutions to fit their respective needs. Whether your aim is more intuitive design and collaboration, or faster and more descriptive 4D models.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): 4D Constructibility Sequencing
Tekla (Trimble)
Empowering the construction industry by providing estimators, detailers, fabricators and structural engineers with technology that drives efficiencies, mitigates the risk of costly errors and promotes greater collaboration.
Product Category: Adopted Solution
Product Strength (per BuiltWorlds research): Prefabrication / Shop Drawing Modeling
Lumion
Lumion is a visualization platform that provides 3D simulations in the preconstruction phase for walkthroughs and other review purposes.
Product Category: Future Disruptor
TestFit
TestFit is a software tool that utilizes generative AI to provide real-time insights into feasibility, constructibility, cost, and more.
Product Category: Future Disruptor
Snaptrude
Snaptrude is a parametric, cloud-based BIM modeling platform for faster and smarter building design.
Product Category: Future Disruptor
Augmenta
Augmenta is a platform that automates sustainable design of buildings intended to reduce costs and waste associated with traditional construction projects.
Product Category: Future Disruptor
XYZ Reality
XYZ Reality is an augmented reality software-backed wearable solution that allows site personnel to view and position holograms of 3D models onto the current site with extreme accuracy
Product Category: Future Disruptor
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