Welcome to the 2023 Smart Jobsites 50! BuiltWorlds is proud to share its 2023 Smart Jobsites 50 List, which was derived from a combination of direct industry feedback, case studies, and the results of the 2022-23 Benchmarking Survey data. The survey inquired about solutions being leveraged within Materials Management, QA/QC, Reality Capture: 360° Cam, Fixed Cam, LiDAR, and IoT, Safety & Risk Management, and Workforce Management. This list illustrates top and emerging field solutions being leveraged by some of the largest contractors, engineers and specialty contractors from around the world.
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This list is part of our ongoing efforts to bring you the best research and information from the field solutions environment. Recently, we released our 2023 Field Solutions benchmarking report where we surveyed a wide array of contractors to get their input on technology they're currently leveraging on site.
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Related Analyst Research
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CATEGORY:
Materials Management
SiteSense (Intelliwave)
SiteSense Materials Management software tracks construction materials, tools and equipment on industrial, infrastructure, and buildings projects. Site Sense's cloud-based, made-for-field platform delivers proactive procurement planning, provides constraint analysis, forecasting and allocation, and advanced scheduling, providing project teams with full visibility and and control of project materials from the supplier’s facilities to warehousing to site delivery to storage to staging and on to installation.
BitRip
BitRip's asset tracking technology allows users to upload any type of digital content to a BitRip code using a free smartphone app. BitRip functions as a lightweight, low-cost RFID for location tracking, allowing users to record and GPS coordinates anytime a BitRip code is scanned. Attaching a BitRip code to tools, machinery, equipment.
Soil Connect
The SoilConnect platform offers a seamless, streamlined solution for excavators, contractors, developers, and other building professionals to network and transact with one another for the transportation and management of soil, aggregates, and other materials. Users can post listings and requests for materials, upload supplier-certified analysis and geotechnical reports, bringing added levels of sophistication and accountability to the marketplace.
HCSS
HCSS’ materials management/job costing software helps construction teams control project by delivering auto-generated reports and real-time job analysis with their job costs dashboard. HCSS’ Dispatcher tool helps project management schedule and track the specific location of rental equipment to help keep job costs low and materials accounted for.
CATEGORY:
QA/QC
Procore
Procore's Quality and Safety Management software platform reduces delays and rework, supplying teams with analytics and insights to understand, predict, and correct issues before they become a problem. Inspection dashboards simplify compliance with quality specifications on every job. When quality issues arise, Procore's software provides actionable insight to the root cause of the problem.
Autodesk Construction Cloud (Build/360/Field)
Autodesk's Construction Cloud's Quality Management features provide users the ability to easily improve product safety, reliability, and compliance. Autodesk’s field failure reports, non conformance reports, and corrective/preventative insights provide efficiency and traceability.
QC Database
QC Database's cloud-based weld tracking and logging software enables ground level tracking and grows a downloadable turnover package throughout the project. QC database uses weld maps that are synced to the weld log to create a customizable mapping document to track welds, flanges, HT numbers, UTs, and punch lists. The map can be edited by multiple users in real time and generates a turnover log as changes are added throughout a project, supporting high quality documentation, progress reporting, communication with stakeholders, and higher project quality.
Provizual
Provizual connects to Procore’s API as a bolt-on tool for managing the quality control and quality assurance process. Provizual’s customizable color-coded maps help project teams monitor and manage quality control inspections and manage progress updates. Provizual’s color-coded mapping system serves as a visual reporting aid to support the inspection process without the need to produce or read written reports.
Trimble
Trimble’s 'Trimble Connect software' optimizes QC workflows by identifying and resolving clashes prior to construction. Trimble includes task management software to create, assign, and review tasks in real-time to ensure on-time project completion. Improved visibility in reporting functionality enhances status sharing and custom reporting capabilities.
e-Builder
e-Builder Enterprise is capital improvement program management software that increases transparency and improves project outcomes through accurate cost tracking, customized business process management, and control over project performance management. e-Builder includes features for document management, connected workflows, process improvement, and more.
Plangrid
PlanGrid is construction productivity software that lets General Contractors, Subcontractors and owners benefit from real-time access to project plans, issues, photos, forms and more. Autodesk Build is the next evolution of PlanGrid that lets construction professionals have all critical project information such as plans, files, issues, photos, forms, assets, RFIs, submittals, meeting minutes, schedules and much more. Users have mobile access to Autodesk Build through the PlanGrid Build mobile application.
CATEGORY:
Reality Capture- 360 Cam
StructionSite/Drone Deploy
StructionSite's SmartTrack is an automated production tracking tool with intelligent project tracking software. StructionSite delivers in-depth insights into the status of work completed on a jobsite. Using iOS or Android application, project teams can walk the jobsite to record a 360° video while AI-powered algorithms map them to the project drawing. SmartTrack translates the photo data into regular updates of installed work, to provide actionable insights.
OpenSpace
OpenSpace combines 360° cameras, computer vision, and AI to easily capture a complete visual record of a jobsite, share it via the cloud, and track progress remotely. Allowing users to easily document jobsite progress via images helps streamline quality assurance and quality control processes. When images are captured, OpenSpace automatically maps them to project plans.
Avvir
Avvir’s automated risk analysis platform gives construction teams control with automated schedule tracking, cost and earned value analysis, installation issue detection, and an updated BIM with as-built conditions. Avvir delivers the only hardware agnostic platform that not only provides critical insights but closes the loop by updating the BIM, allowing customers to focus on solving issues, not finding them.
HoloBuilder (Faro)
HoloBuilder’s mobile reality capture solutions, construction professionals create and share digital, 360° replicas of their job sites and buildings. Through quick digitalization of information, HoloBuilder’s platform allows reduced travel, transaction, and legal costs throughout the entire building lifecycle.
Pix4D
Pix4D provides software solutions for professional drone-based mapping, purely from images. Pix4D software uses images taken by hand, drone, or plane and creates customizable results that complement a wide range of applications and software.
Cupix
Cupix is a 360 reality capture platform for jobsite monitoring and analytics. Cupix is Open API and integrates with Procore, ARCGIS, Autodesk, Plangrid, and others. Cupix's smartphone app pairs with cameras mounted to hardhats/vests to create an interactive 3D map that supports room-based navigation, tracking, and actionable data. Cupix's deliverables can be viewed on the software platform or as printable, easy-to-share PDFs.
SiteAware
SiteAware provides Digital Construction Verification (DCV) solutions to minimize risk exposure in construction and increase productivity across diverse projects. SiteAware's DCV platform supports real-time error prevention on jobsites, eliminating costly and time-consuming rework. SiteAware’s turnkey DCV solution for the building’s structure, shell and interior works in the background during construction and requires no maintenance, training or operation by the end user.
Doxel
Doxel is the only complete automated construction progress tracking solution. By contextualizing vast amounts of disparate project data across site, BIM, schedule, and budget, Doxel empowers teams with an objective view of their project today and an accurate prediction of where it will be tomorrow. Leveraging machine generated and prioritized risk analysis, teams are guided to the right problems in order to stay ahead of cost overruns and schedule delays.
CATEGORY
Reality Capture- Fixed Cam
EarthCam
EarthCam provides live-streaming video, time-lapse construction cameras, and reality capture solutions for corporate and government clients. EarthCam has high-resolution imagery available, including the world’s first outdoor gigapixel panorama camera system. This patented technology delivers superior multi-billion pixel clarity for monitoring and archiving important projects and events. EarthCam has documented over a trillion dollars of construction projects around the world.
OxBlue
OxBlue's fixed camera solution with remote vision and perfect memory helps construction teams monitor keep their site monitored at all times. Contractors can use OxBlue to view projects anytime, from anywhere with on-demand access to live images, video, and time-lapse technology. OxBlue assists with monitoring changing conditions with quick access to activity, weather, and safety data using artificial intelligence. OxBlue safeguards construction sites after-hours with security surveillance, verification and emergency dispatch services.
Multivista
Multivista is a construction photo documentation and full-service construction site photography provider. Multivista’s online platform gives construction teams instant access to a complete photographic record of each construction project anytime, anywhere. All project photos are available in inspection-grade detail, and indexed according to your project plans by location and date.
Truelook
TrueLook Cameras offers a comprehensive feature set for the jobsite, giving project teams the features necessary to keep projects on track. TrueLook offers 24/7 support, lifetime warranty, no-contract service plans and no limits on users, media storage, or data. Live viewing, intelligent security, and time-lapsing features offers visibility without limits.
Verkada
Verkada is a startup specializing in cloud-managed enterprise building security. Verkada offers video security cameras, door-based access control, environmental sensors, alarms, visitor management, mailroom and intercom - provide visibility from every angle, delivered through a single secure cloud-based software platform.
SiteKick
SiteKick delivers information to keep contracting teams safe and construction projects on time and on budget. SiteKick provides site-monitoring alerts and security notifications, continuous and time-lapse video for complete remote visibility, and tracks environmental, air-quality, and personnel tracking. SiteKick offers reporting support and integrates with Procore, Autodesk, and BIM 360.
CATEGORY:
Reality Capture- LiDAR
Matterport
Matterport is a 3D media company offering a portable 3D media platform which includes the Matterport Pro 3D Camera, The Matterport Cloud, and Matterport 3D Showcase. Matterport is a spatial data company focused on digitizing and indexing the built world. Their all-in-one 3D data platform enables anyone to turn a space into an accurate and immersive digital twin which can be used to design, build, operate, promote, and understand any space.
FARO
FARO develops and manufactures leading-edge solutions that enable high-precision 3D capture, measurement, and analysis across a variety of industries including manufacturing, construction, engineering, and public safety. Faro offers an array of scanners specifically designed for the AEC community.
NavVis
NavVis' reality capture technology captures photorealistic digital twins of the built environment. Their digital factory solutions enable greater organizational operability, productivity, agility, and profitability.
Trimble RealWorks
Trimble RealWorks is designed specifically for point cloud processing and analysis. RealWorks' software provides a complete solution to register, analyze, model, and create deliverables using data from any source.
CATEGORY:
Reality Capture- IoT
Genda
Genda's IoT devices are IP67 rated, self-powered and disposable once they've served their purpose. Genda's rugged, self-powered IoT devices do not require any on-site infrastructure or preparations and function without power outlets or network connections. Genda captures and stores resource and project site data to improve and enhance labor oversight, resource management, and digital safety & communications.
CrewSight (Trimble)
Trimble’s CrewSight offers an effortless deployable IoT solution that meets monitoring needs, allowing for customization within various areas while providing enhanced site security. This digital solution empowers management teams to gain insight into a project site, from seeing the amount of hours that crew members are on site, what zones they were working in, and that they have the proper clearance to be in a zone.
Kwant
Kwant is a workforce management & safety platform built to accelerate construction through productivity and safety. Using smart wearables and plug-n-play sensors, Kwant connects jobsite data and provides real-time insights & reports.
WakeCap
WakeCap enables an IoT site solution designed to improve safety, efficiency and productivity on construction sites. WakeCap's network of integrated sensors to connect the job site with a proprietary, patented wireless mesh network technology to provide an in-depth understanding of each project site. WakeCap helps construction teams streamline business processes, measure labor performance, and reveal insights to implement continuous operation improvement.
Spot-r Suite (Triax Technologies)
Triax delivers a fully connected IoT platform to provide hard-to-capture data and deliver it in actionable insights, to empower better business decisions. Triax's flagship Spot-r system elevates worksite visibility, safety, security and risk, connecting workers, equipment and operations through a scalable, minimal infrastructure network, wearable and sensor devices, and a cloud-based dashboard. By providing real-time, data-driven visibility into site access, worker and equipment location, manpower, safety incidents, and evacuation and muster procedures, Spot-r enables actionable insights, helping firms streamline processes and work safer and smarter.
CATEGORY:
Safety & Risk Management
Procore
Procore's construction Site Quality and Safety Software is designed to help users understand, predict, and correct issues before they become a problem. Procore's solution is built for the field, making it easy for field teams to contribute and comply with construction safety regulations and quality specifications. Procore helps PMs hold teams accountable, understand what leads to risk, and be able to accurately predict opportunities for improvement.
PowerBI (Microsoft)
Power BI is an online software service offering from Microsoft that enables construction project leadership to easily and quickly create self-service Business Intelligence dashboards, reports, datasets, and visualizations. Power BI connects to various data sources, combines and shapes data from those connections, and creates reports and dashboards that can be shared with stakeholders.
Autodesk Construction Cloud (Build/360/Field)
Autodesk's Safety Management software enables users to engage everyone associated with a construction site safely by smartphone app. Autodesk's Construction Cloud helps create effective planning strategies to prevent safety incidents.
Viewpoint (Trimble)
Viewpoint by Trimble offers integrated project management and accounting software solutions for the construction industry. Viewpoint’s cloud-based software platform allows teams to share, track, and manage all project documents — such as bids, submittals, approvals, punch lists, field data, work orders, and audits — in real-time, from any location.
Safety Amp
SafetyAmp is a software platform that helps construction teams accelerate their EHS strategy, exceed their targets, and deliver dollars – not injuries. SafetyAmp’s health and safety features help track and report safety data, monitor leading indications, deliver insights, and change outcomes. SafetyAmp’s quality, risk, and operations features help to quickly identify, report, or initiate varied processes to surface issues fast, ensure process compliance, and mitigate risk.
iAuiditor by SafetyCulture
SafetyCulture’s mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. iAuditor is the first iteration of a digital platform that revolutionized safety inspections globally. It’s now the world’s largest checklist app. iAuditor allows workers to build their own checklists and optimizes performance for everyone – from front line workers to operations analysts.
CATEGORY:
Workforce Management
Bridgit Bench
Bridgit Bench specializes in workforce visibility with real-time updates, extensive integrations, and centralized workforce management data. Bridgit Bench streamlines work assignments, tracking, and forecasting; uniting project and field operations team planning for enhanced collaboration. Bridgit Bench integrates with major and custom tech solutions and includes embedded text messaging and email functionalities.
BIM 360 (Autodesk)
Autodesk’s BIM 360 software enables users to develop a standardized construction site safety program that can be used by every member of the team to reduce onsite risk and safety blind spots. BIM 360 offers templates for daily reports, incident reports, safety checklists, and screening checklists for jobsite visitors. BIM 360 identifies trends across roles, companies, and incidents to provide project-wide insights to improve safety observations and resolve common problems.
Procore
Procore’s construction labor productivity management software produces analytic insights to support scheduling and protect project labor budgets while tracking productivity in real time. Procore offers features for documenting and tracking out-of-scope work to mitigate risk, monitor labor costs, and simplify payroll system requirements. Real-time labor productivity tools include: contract directory, unlimited document storage, GPS clock-in/out, producing tracking, timesheets, editable crews, time materials tickets, and more.
Primavera (Oracle)
Primavera P6 EPPM allows project managers to plan, schedule, and control large-scale and individual projects, enables simultaneous multi-user access to schedules and project documents, and team member interfaces for gathering status updates. Primavera includes features for team collaboration and data sharing; connected project controls to manage project costs, contracts, and change; streamlined payment management; integrated planning and delivery and predictive intelligence to keep projects on track.
CMiC
CMiC provides workforce management resources for construction integrated payroll, opportunity management (CRM), and resource planning. CMiC offers customizable workflows, document archiving and management, and automated messaging and communication to stakeholders. CMiC’s Human Capital Management and Payroll software includes workforce management features designed to eliminate duplicate data entries and automate HR and payroll tasks and measure, track, and report labor hours across projects.
Rhumbix
Rhumbix captures labor time and utilization data to deliver daily and weekly insights and reports, addressing issues of tracking time, productivity, and other issues in the field. Rhumbix combats “foreman app fatigue” by bringing together many field tech solutions within one app, providing an integrated tech stack focused on labor productivity, production, and progress tracking. Rhumbix’s streamlined workflows and real-time insights enable a proactive and forward looking approach to workforce management that connects entire teams with critical project data, enhancing collaboration with stakeholders.
InEight
InEight Software is a cloud-based and integrated construction management solution that provides real-time insights to minimize risks, improve efficiency, and control project costs. The software platform covers the customer’s full project lifecycle – from pre-planning to design, from estimating to scheduling, and from field execution to turnover.
Hoylu
Hoylu's collaborative construction planning software combines whiteboarding, planning, and task management in a visually engaging, easy-to-use platform. Hoylu enables interactive integrations so users can use other softwares such as Power BI, Excel, Google Maps and many others -- all live within the Hoylu tool. With no user limits, Hoylu's collaborative digital workspace makes planning, scheduling, and A3 decision-making simple to support construction teams in meeting their project goals.
WorkMax
WorkMax is a cloud-based platform that includes forms, time, assets, and insight to help PMs monitor construction progress, productivity, compliance, and time. Workmax's biometric time clock and GPS tracking eliminates the need to punch in/out on a physical clock. Mobile Time Clock features capture real-time field reporting, employee time tracking, and asset tracking data in real-time.
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