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From June 2–4, Doxel will join thousands of leaders across the global data center ecosystem at the 2026 Datacloud Global Congress (DGC) 2026 in Cannes, France.
Held at the iconic Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Datacloud Cannes brings together hyperscalers, developers, investors, operators, and construction leaders shaping the future of AI infrastructure and digital capacity expansion.
With more than 6,000 attendees expected, this year’s event arrives at a critical moment for the industry. AI demand continues to accelerate the construction of data centers globally, while labor shortages, power constraints, and schedule pressures continue to intensify.
As a Silver Sponsor, Doxel will be exhibiting at Booth #317 with full EMEA sales, product, and customer coverage on site, including participation in the event’s pre-conference cycling activities.
The conversations at DGC align directly with the challenges Doxel helps solve every day on large-scale projects.
Across the industry, owners and builders face mounting pressure to deliver complex facilities faster while maintaining quality and reducing risk. At the same time, construction productivity continues to lag behind other industries despite increasing project complexity and demand. For data center teams building hyperscale campuses and AI infrastructure, delays and missed coordination windows can quickly create cascading schedule impacts.
That is why objective, real-time construction visibility has become increasingly important.
Throughout Cannes, Doxel will showcase how leading owners and contractors are using AI-powered progress tracking to improve schedule certainty, benchmark production, and reduce costly surprises in the field.
Doxel automatically captures and analyzes site progress against BIM models and schedules, giving teams real-time visibility into what is actually happening on site. The platform eliminates the delays and inconsistencies that come from manual reporting and subjective progress tracking.
On major projects, Doxel has helped teams move beyond “rule of thumb” project management by introducing objective production benchmarking and real-time performance insights. DPR Construction used Doxel to improve benchmarking consistency and increase confidence in decision-making across projects.
As owners demand greater predictability and transparency across capital programs, Doxel gives teams what traditional reporting systems often cannot: a live operational view of project execution.
To support our efforts at Datacloud Cannes, we are launching a digital billboard campaign across key areas surrounding the Palais des Festivals and La Croisette.
The campaign reinforces a core message increasingly resonating across the data center market:
You cannot accelerate delivery without objective visibility into production.
The creative highlights our ability to help owners and builders deliver construction faster through automated progress tracking, real-time production insights, and proactive risk detection.
The campaign also reflects a broader shift happening across construction. Owners are beginning to manage construction investments with the same operational rigor applied across the rest of their business.
Attendees can meet with our team throughout the event to discuss how AI-powered construction analytics are helping data center teams improve execution certainty at scale.
If you are attending Datacloud Cannes 2026, stop by Booth #317 to see how we’re helping teams deliver complex projects with greater speed, visibility, and confidence.
Doxel is attending DCD>Connect APAC 2026 in Bali to discuss AI infrastructure, data center construction visibility, and reducing delivery risk across fast-growing APAC markets.
Doxel is heading to on June 9–11 at the Grand Hyatt Bali to participate in DCD>Connect APAC 2026
As AI infrastructure demand accelerates across Asia-Pacific, developers, operators, and construction teams are under increasing pressure to deliver capacity faster while managing growing project complexity.
APAC has quickly become one of the world’s most active regions for data center expansion. Markets across Southeast Asia, Australia, and India continue to see rapid investment from hyperscalers, colocation providers, and digital infrastructure firms racing to support AI workloads and cloud growth.
At the same time, the challenges facing project teams continue to intensify.
Data center facilities are becoming larger, denser, and more complex. Regional supply chains remain fragmented. Skilled labor availability varies significantly by market. Power constraints and permitting pressures are increasing in key hubs. Teams are being asked to build faster than ever before while maintaining certainty around schedule, quality, and coordination.
Industry research from McKinsey & Company shows that global construction productivity has remained largely stagnant for decades despite increasing project complexity and demand. The report notes that productivity in construction improved only 0.4% annually between 2000 and 2022 while labor shortages continue to worsen across major markets.
That challenge is becoming increasingly visible across APAC data center construction.
DCD>Connect APAC brings together many of the operators, developers, contractors, and infrastructure leaders shaping the future of AI and digital infrastructure across the region.
Unlike more mature markets where expansion is often constrained by existing infrastructure limitations, APAC remains heavily growth-focused. New facilities are being delivered across multiple countries simultaneously, often with compressed schedules and evolving delivery models.
This year’s event focuses heavily on the future of next-generation AI infrastructure, modular delivery strategies, localization approaches, and the operational realities of scaling hyperscale infrastructure across APAC.
For Doxel, these conversations align directly with the challenges teams are facing in the field today.
Doxel helps owners and construction teams improve visibility, coordination, and delivery performance across complex capital projects through automated progress tracking and AI-powered construction analytics.
Doxel enables teams to:
Doxel’s platform helps eliminate gaps in manual reporting by providing objective, real-time insights into what is actually happening on-site.
Companies like DPR use Doxel to improve project visibility, benchmark build speeds, and drive more objective production tracking across projects. As APAC data center projects grow larger and more complex, real-time visibility into field execution becomes critical to maintaining schedule certainty and reducing delivery risk.
Doxel’s APAC Client Manager, Sridhar Rengasamy, will be attending throughout the event and meeting with owners, operators, developers, and delivery teams across the region.
Sridhar has worked on large-scale infrastructure and capital projects across Southeast Asia totaling up to $550M in value, partnering closely with contractors and consultants to improve coordination, strengthen execution, and mitigate delivery risk across complex multi-stakeholder environments.
If you’re attending and want to discuss live or upcoming APAC projects, connect with the Doxel team during the event. To schedule a meeting, please reach out to Sridhar on LinkedIn.
Addressing Workforce Constraints in Data Center Construction
The Data Center Investment Conference and Expo (DICE): National brings together owners, operators, and builders at a time when data center demand continues to rise while the available workforce remains constrained.
Industry research shows that construction productivity has improved only modestly over the past two decades, even as project complexity has increased and labor availability has tightened. For teams delivering large-scale data center projects, this creates pressure on schedules, coordination, and overall execution.
Doxel is excited to attend DICE National, joining industry leaders as they share how teams are approaching these challenges in real project environments.
May 12–14, 2026
Day 1 Session | 2:10 PM – 2:50 PM
The panel includes perspectives from owners and operators who are directly responsible for delivering complex infrastructure programs.
The discussion will focus on how organizations are adapting to workforce constraints while maintaining delivery timelines and quality standards. Key topics include:
These challenges are not isolated to hiring. They affect how projects are planned, tracked, and executed from day one.
Doxel approaches workforce constraints as an execution and visibility challenge. When labor availability is limited, improving how work is tracked and managed becomes critical.
Doxel provides:
On data center projects with partners such as DPR Construction, this approach has supported a shift toward more consistent, data-driven benchmarking and improved confidence in project decision-making.
Data center projects require precise coordination, tight schedules, and rigorous quality control. Workforce limitations increase the risk of delays, rework, and misalignment between teams.
Improving visibility into project progress allows teams to:
This level of visibility helps teams maintain performance even when labor conditions are challenging.
This session will provide practical insights from industry leaders managing workforce constraints on active projects.
For owners, developers, and contractors involved in data center construction, it offers a clear view into how execution strategies are evolving.
Where Speed Meets Precision in Data Center Construction
The pace of data center construction has changed.
Schedules are tighter. Labor is harder to find. And the tolerance for error is almost zero. Owners and builders are being asked to deliver faster than ever, often on projects where even a small delay can cascade into millions in lost revenue.
That’s exactly why Doxel is heading to the DICE Pacific Northwest Data Center Investment Conference & Expo.
This event brings together the investors, developers, contractors, and technology leaders shaping the next generation of digital infrastructure. And this year, one topic is rising above the rest: How do you build faster without losing control?
The demand for data centers continues to surge, but the industry’s ability to deliver them has not kept pace.
Global construction productivity has barely moved over the last two decades, increasing just 0.4% annually, even as project complexity has grown dramatically
At the same time:
The result is a widening gap between what needs to be built and what can be delivered.
To close that gap, leading teams are rethinking how projects are executed. They are combining modular construction strategies with real-time, objective visibility into progress.
Speaker: John Rewolinski, PSP, Head of Scheduling Analytics, Doxel
Session Title: Speed Meets Precision: How Modular Delivery and Construction Tech Are Redefining Data Center Execution
This session focuses on a simple but critical challenge: Speed alone is not enough. Precision is what keeps speed from turning into rework.
Attendees will learn:
Most construction teams still rely on a familiar process:
The issue is not effort. It’s timing. By the time a deviation shows up in a report, it’s often weeks old. On a data center project, that delay can mean:
Doxel changes that dynamic by delivering objective, automated progress tracking that compares actual site conditions directly to the BIM model and schedule.
Instead of asking what’s happening, teams can see it.
Doxel was built for complex, fast-paced projects where precision matters.
With Doxel, teams can:
This approach eliminates manual reporting gaps and gives teams a consistent, accurate view of the jobsite
The impact is clear:
Construction is not getting simpler. But it is becoming more measurable.
With the right combination of modular delivery, AI-driven insights, and objective progress tracking, teams can finally deliver projects at the speed the market demands without sacrificing quality or control.
Doxel is helping lead that shift. See Doxel today.
When the scan says "not installed," and the trade says "we did it," the answer might be a quality problem, not a data error
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Computer Vision Is the Andon Cord Construction Has Always Needed
LCI Conference 2025 · Reid Senescu, Doxel & Mike Miller, DPR Construction
Doxel's system was designed to track progress, but on a hyperscale data center project with DPR Construction, it caught something that no daily report, RFI, or schedule update had flagged, and the lesson that came out of it changed how the team interpreted data discrepancies entirely.
The story starts with a flag. Doxel's AI detected uninstalled security components near certain doors. The electrical trade partner pushed back hard, claiming they had roughed in all the security to those doors. In their estimation, the work was done.
After further investigation, the team found the truth: the security boxes had been installed. Three feet to the right of where they were supposed to be.
The components had been physically installed, but they were mislocated relative to the BIM. When comparing the 360° site photos against the model, Doxel’s AI correctly identified them as not installed in the designated location.
"If something's showing as not installed and the trade partner says it's installed, we probably have a quality control problem. Not the intended use case — but awesome to see."
— Mike Miller, Superintendent, DPR Construction
The team had stumbled onto a new interpretive principle. When Doxel flags something as missing and the trade says it's done, don't default to assuming the data is wrong. Investigate. The discrepancy might not be a tracking error; it might be a quality flag.
Mike was direct about what happened next and what it cost. Rework followed. But by investigating when they did, the team headed off even higher costs than if the issue had been found later.
REWORK WARNING: Dismissing data because it contradicts expectation is how quality issues get buried. The cost of investigation is almost always lower than the cost of rework — especially once walls are closed.
This is not an abstract lean principle. It played out on a real job, on real infrastructure, with real rework costs. The lesson is practical: when scan data and field reports disagree, treat the disagreement as information, not noise.
Construction quality management has traditionally relied on scheduled inspections, trade self-reporting, and periodic walkthroughs. These methods work reasonably well for obvious defects. They are poor at catching components that are physically present, but are installed in the wrong place relative to the design.
Computer vision can fill this gap by comparing what is physically present against the BIM at the component level across all visible trades every week. Mislocations look identical to missing components from the system's perspective, because in both cases, the component is not where it should be.
The practical recommendation from Mike's experience is to establish a protocol for investigating discrepancies rather than defaulting to dismissal. When a trade reports complete and the system reports incomplete, send someone to review the discrepancy. It only takes minutes, but it can prevent weeks of rework.
There is a secondary benefit this story highlights: objective, time-stamped documentation of installation location for every component. On a complex facility like a data center, where systems are dense, and modifications may be needed years later, having a record of where things were actually installed, not just where they were designed to go, has ongoing operational value.
This use case wasn't in the sales deck. It emerged from a real disagreement on a real job. That's often how the most durable capabilities get discovered.
Doxel is proving that transforming an industry starts with the people behind it.
Doxel has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers, highlighting the company’s rapid growth, strong culture, and commitment to developing talent in construction technology.
The annual Forbes ranking evaluates thousands of startup companies across the United States based on employer reputation, employee satisfaction, and growth. The recognition reflects the impact Doxel has built not only in transforming construction productivity but also in creating a workplace where employees can build meaningful careers.
You can see the full list here.
Doxel develops AI-powered construction progress tracking technology that helps owners and contractors deliver projects faster and with greater certainty. By automatically capturing jobsite data and comparing it to BIM models and project schedules, the platform provides objective visibility into construction progress and productivity.
The system helps teams eliminate manual reporting, gain objective insights, and make faster decisions across complex construction projects.
For Saurabh Ladha, CEO and Founder of Doxel, the Forbes recognition reflects years of commitment to both innovation and people.
“Our mission has always been to transform how the world builds. That requires not only great technology, but great people. Being recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers is a testament to the incredible team we have built at Doxel.” - Saurabh Ladha, CEO and Founder of Doxel
Ladha added that solving construction’s productivity challenges requires long-term thinking and strong collaboration across engineering, product, and customer success teams.
Employee satisfaction has played a major role in Doxel’s recognition.
The company currently maintains a Glassdoor rating of approximately 4.1 out of 5, reflecting strong employee feedback on leadership, culture, and career opportunities.
Many employees highlight the opportunity to grow quickly within the organization and take on new responsibilities as the company scales.
“If you’re looking for a fast-growing company that genuinely supports career progression, values its people, and maintains a strong culture as it scales, Doxel is a great place to be,” said one account team member.
Another employee noted that Doxel’s leadership actively supports internal promotions and professional development.
“The career advancement opportunity has been great! I've been given several opportunities to be promoted to higher leadership roles over the past few years.”
Construction remains one of the world’s largest industries, yet productivity has stagnated for decades. According to research from McKinsey, construction productivity grew only 0.4% annually between 2000 and 2022, far behind gains in manufacturing and the broader economy.
Doxel’s technology addresses this challenge by providing automated, objective progress tracking across construction sites. The platform scans projects, compares actual progress against plans, and helps teams identify schedule risks earlier.
Companies using Doxel gain:
These insights allow project teams to make faster decisions and keep complex projects on track.
For Doxel employees across engineering, AI research, and customer success, the opportunity to solve real problems in construction has become a major motivator.
“We’re not just building software,” said Reid Senescu, Sr. Vice President of Product, Marketing, and Customer Success. “We’re helping an industry that builds hospitals, data centers, and infrastructure deliver projects faster and with more certainty.”
That mission has helped Doxel attract talent from both technology and construction backgrounds, creating a team with deep expertise across AI, robotics, and capital project delivery.
The Forbes recognition highlights Doxel’s momentum as the company continues expanding its technology platform and customer base across major global construction projects.
For Ladha, the award reflects the culture the company intends to preserve as it grows.
“Our goal is to build a company where talented people can do the best work of their careers while solving meaningful challenges for the construction industry.”
- Saurabh Ladha, CEO and Founder of Doxel
How AI progress tracking gives superintendents a signal weeks before a delay becomes a crisis
LCI Conference 2025 · Reid Senescu, Doxel & Mike Miller, DPR Construction
Every superintendent knows the feeling: a trade partner reports they're on track, the schedule says green, and then, one week before a milestone, the reality hits. The work isn't there. The cascade starts. The conversations get harder.
The problem isn't that anyone is lying. The problem is that construction progress has always been measured the same way: someone walks around, someone asks, someone estimates. By the time a deviation surfaces through normal reporting channels, weeks have passed, and the cost of recovering has multiplied.
Data-driven construction executives are disciplined in leveraging technology and processes to capture crucial information about their projects. At LCI Conference 2025, DPR Project Executive Mike Miller described how automated progress tracking changed that dynamic on his hyperscale data center project, starting with a piping trade partner whose slip he could see forming in real time.
Starting in December, Doxel's computer vision system began showing a divergence between the piping trade's actual installed quantities and their planned schedule. Not a dramatic gap at first. Just a signal.
Under traditional reporting, that gap might not have surfaced until a formal schedule update meeting or until it cascaded into delayed downstream trades. With automated tracking, Mike could see it forming week by week, grounded in automated progress tracking rather than self-reporting.
"As a leader, you only have so much time to focus on certain things. I can't focus on everything all the time. I can see who's on plan and I can focus where we have the risk."— Mike Miller, Project Executive, DPR Construction
What followed was a textbook plan-do-check-act (PDCA) loop. The trade was brought to the table. The data was shared. Initially, there was resistance — new tools, new data, trust takes time. But by year-end, the team accepted the picture and decided to add resources. Check the result. Adjust again if needed.
Mike called it "bread and butter." The system is working exactly as it should.
KEY INSIGHT Early detection gives leadership the visibility to have the right conversation at the right time.
The lean parallel is direct. In manufacturing, the Andon cord's value isn't the cord itself; it's the organizational culture that responds to it. Doxel's computer vision functions as a continuous Andon cord across the entire job site, flagging deviations the moment they're detectable, not weeks later when they've compounded.
Reid Senescu, Head of Product at Doxel, described the underlying principle: construction sites have historically lacked the sensor layer that lean manufacturing has always relied on. No factory would operate without real-time feedback on production output. Yet construction, which is far more complex and expensive, has run primarily on estimates and walking the site.
The system takes three inputs:
Computer vision compares the scan against the BIM to determine what has been physically installed at the component level across all trades and at every stage of construction. A large language model ties the schedule to the BIM, producing a real-time 4D view of the actual project state versus the planned state.
The result: trade and project-level progress data grounded in physical observation rather than self-reporting, updated at least weekly, with no additional engineering work required for onboarding.
Doxel has captured over 3 billion square feet of construction. That dataset powers the "rules of credit" — weighted effort models that let the system aggregate component-level data up to an accurate project percent complete.
What This Means for Owners and GCs
For owners, the implication of this story is straightforward: the capability exists to monitor capital investments in construction with the same rigor applied to financial data, inventory, or operational metrics. Requiring automated progress tracking in the RFP: specifying that it must cover all visible trades and at least 80 stages of construction is the most direct way to ensure this capability is on every project.
For GCs like DPR, the story is about competitive differentiation. The teams that build trust in objective data and act on it early catch problems before they cascade. They spend less on rework and recover faster.
The Andon cord is finally available for job sites. The question is how quickly the team can respond when it sounds.
Lean isn’t just a principle — it’s how Doxel is pushing the industry forward. That’s why we’re excited to join the 2025 LCI Congress in Arlington, Texas.
Doxel is proud to sponsor the 27th Annual LCI Congress in Arlington, TX, October 20–24, 2025. Visit Booth #214 to see how we help teams pioneer Lean progress with real-time, AI-powered insights.
📅 October 20–24, 2025
📍 Arlington, Texas
📍 Doxel Booth #214
🔗 Join us at LCI Congress
The Lean Construction Institute (LCI) is celebrating its 27th Annual Congress in Arlington, Texas, bringing together leaders from across the AEC industry for a week of education, networking, and Lean discovery. This event is recognized as the premier gathering for advancing Lean design and construction practices, where owners, designers, trade partners, and contractors come together to share knowledge and transform the way projects are delivered.
With the theme of pioneering progress through education, networking, and Lean discovery, LCI Congress offers attendees the opportunity to:
At Doxel, we believe Lean principles are more than a framework—they are the foundation for building certainty into every project. Our AI-powered progress tracking platform provides the objective, real-time insights teams need to eliminate waste, optimize resources, and stay ahead of schedule.
By combining computer vision with automated benchmarking, Doxel helps owners and builders align field reality with Lean schedules, creating a living plan that adjusts based on actual progress. This empowers teams to:
We are proud to sponsor LCI Congress 2025 and showcase how our platform helps advance Lean construction practices. If you’re attending, visit us at Booth #214 to see how Doxel enables real-time observability and creates confidence in delivering projects faster and more reliably.
Learn more about the event and register here: LCI Congress 2025
Meet Doxel at Procore Groundbreak 2025 in Houston, Oct 14–16. See how AI-powered insights drive faster, more predictable project delivery. Booth 233.
Groundbreak brings together global leaders and industry experts who are setting a new standard for construction. This October, join Doxel in Houston, TX for Procore Groundbreak 2025 as we connect with innovators, problem-solvers, and visionaries driving our industry forward with cutting-edge solutions and breakthrough technologies.
📅 October 14–16, 2025
📍 Houston, TX
🟨 Visit Doxel at Booth 233
Procore Groundbreak has become the go-to event for forward-thinking builders, owners, and technology partners. Attendees gain direct access to:
This is where the conversations that define construction’s future are happening.
Doxel helps owners, general contractors, and trade partners gain certainty in complex projects with tools that fit the way each role works.
By stopping at our booth, you’ll see how Doxel empowers every stakeholder—from the boardroom to the jobsite—to deliver projects faster, safer, and with greater confidence.
Don’t miss your chance to see the technologies shaping tomorrow. Visit Doxel at Booth 233 at Groundbreak 2025. We look forward to building the future together in Houston.
Join Doxel at DCAC Austin 2025 to explore the dawn of the data center gold rush and how AI-powered progress tracking helps deliver certainty at speed and scale.
Austin, Texas | September 16–18, 2025 | Hyatt Place Austin Downtown
The data center market is entering a new era of unprecedented demand, and nowhere is that more evident than at DCAC Austin 2025. Known as one of the most forward-looking data center conferences in the U.S., DCAC brings together visionaries, builders, and operators to explore how this gold rush moment is reshaping the digital economy.
This year’s theme, “The Dawn of the Data Center Gold Rush,” highlights the wave of new opportunities driven by AI, hyperscale growth, and global infrastructure investment. Developers, contractors, and owners are under pressure to deliver projects at speed and scale while navigating power, land, and supply chain constraints.
Austin and the broader Central Texas region are witnessing explosive growth in data center development:
As a sponsor of DCAC Austin 2025, Doxel is proud to support the industry at this pivotal moment. Our AI-powered progress tracking platform provides owners and contractors with real-time visibility into construction performance, helping teams avoid delays, manage costs, and deliver certainty when it matters most.
In a gold‑rush environment where land, labor, and timelines are stretched thin, Doxel helps building teams deliver on time.
We’re excited to connect with owners, developers, and general contractors at DCAC Austin 2025. This is your chance to see firsthand how technology and innovation are redefining data center construction.
📍 Event: DCAC Austin 2025
📅 Date: September 16–18, 2025
📍 Location: Hyatt Place Austin Downtown
Whether you’re exploring new projects or scaling delivery capacity, Doxel is here to help you capture the opportunities of this historic moment for the data center industry.
Learn more about the event and register here.
Doxel now supports the Insta360 X5, a rugged, jobsite-ready camera with long battery life and heat resilience, delivering sharper captures and stronger AI progress tracking.
At Doxel, we know construction doesn’t happen in perfect conditions. That’s why we’re excited to announce full support for the integration of the Insta360 X5 camera with Doxel’s autonomous progress-tracking platform.
The X5 isn’t just a sharper video, it’s a jobsite-ready tool engineered to capture in tough conditions and keep projects on track. And when paired with Doxel, it transforms field capture into reliable, AI-driven progress data you can trust.
The Insta360 X5 elevates what’s possible in jobsite documentation:
With X5 integrated into Doxel’s AI platform, contractors gain:
Every missed capture or overheated camera adds risk. With Doxel + Insta360 X5, project teams gain a durable, data-reliable workflow designed to perform where construction actually happens: in the field, in the dust, in the heat and the cold.
Ready to see the X5 in action? Explore how Doxel and Insta360 X5 keep projects on schedule and under control.
Learn more about the Insta360 X5
See how Doxel powers AI progress tracking
Streamlining the process for creating detailed reports can free up the project team's focus while enhancing the level of reporting and insights for a company.
In a 2021 Workforce Survey Analysis, AGC found that 88% of companies surveyed were experiencing project delays—that’s nearly nine out of ten. Now more than ever, construction companies are faced with the challenge to do more with less and keep projects on track in the face of unforeseen circumstances.
While certain conditions and factors in the industry can’t be controlled, there are 3 construction workflows that can reduce the margin of error to ensure a project stays resilient. This requires operational excellence in the areas that can be predicted and made more efficient.
What are the three construction workflows a company should prioritize?
Communication among field teams, supervisors, and the office is crucial—and can be cumbersome. With so many moving pieces of a project happening at once, getting the necessary message out to everyone in a timely, effective manner is no easy feat.
Companies need to find a way to remove the barriers to communication. By doing so, they’ll save everyone on the project team valuable time that would otherwise be spent tracking progress, in meetings to get everyone up to speed, or playing telephone.
Quality of construction can make or break a project’s ability to stay on track. Quality issues or mistakes found too late in the process can be the kiss of death for moving onto the next phase—and as a result, teams remain stuck in the final 10 or 20% of completion for too long. This won’t just cost time and manpower, it’ll directly affect a project’s budget and profitability, too.
The only option to streamline and prevent these costly quality issues is to catch them early and address them quickly. Technology that helps companies see progress in real time opens the door for making smarter decisions and adapting faster.
When a project does make it through the final 10%, the work isn’t over yet. Teams must provide an objective, detailed overview of the completion—which again takes time and resources. There’s more information to gather, and no efficient way to compile it using manual efforts alone.
Teams should be focused on projects, not paperwork or reporting. Streamlining the process for creating detailed reports can free up their focus while enhancing the level of reporting and insights for a company.
By implementing a technology that can continuously monitor performance and provide predictive insights, construction companies are able to achieve operational excellence.
Platforms like Doxel act as a digital surveyor to automatically track progress across more than 75 different construction stages in real time, freeing up the project team’s time and resources.
Instead of manually walking the jobsite every day or week to capture exact progress, Doxel works with a 360° video to act as a digital surveyor in minutes. Combining the power of computer vision with BIM means companies have an objective truth of the status of a site—and can understand progress, schedule, and budget better than ever before.
If it sounds too good to be true, it isn’t.
Tune in to our webinar Almost Done, Isn’t Done to hear from two successful construction companies on how they’re leveraging real-time progress tracking to automate and achieve more.
By continuously tracking and analyzing construction site progress in real time, Production Rate Data serves as a single, reliable source of truth for measuring construction progress.
Traditionally, project managers have relied on site visits and progress reporting from their field teams to stay abreast of construction progress. On large capital projects like data centers, semiconductor wafer fabrication plants, or healthcare infrastructure this can become problematic where even small schedule delays lead to large cost overruns. Doxel’s Production Rate Data provides a solution that empowers project teams with additional data in order to monitor construction progress.
Production Rate Data is the information gathered through reality capture inputs (e.g., 360-degree imaging or drone footage), to continuously track and analyze construction site progress in real time. By comparing actual work completed against the planned schedule, this data serves as a single, reliable source of truth for measuring construction progress. It provides project owners with objective, accurate insights that are crucial for managing schedules and ensuring on-time project completion. This innovative approach equips teams with the data needed to identify delays, optimize workflows, and ensure efficient project delivery.
By leveraging this advanced technology, owner’s representatives can monitor projects with a data set they control, guaranteeing transparency and accuracy. Here’s how Doxel tracks completed construction:
Example: Mechanical Pipes and Walls
Doxel’s Production Rate tracking capability simplifies the comparison of completed construction against the schedule, offering a powerful tool for project owners to measure progress and manage schedules effectively.
Understanding how construction software tracks progress can be complex. Doxel simplifies this with a robust methodology:
Productivity is calculated using specific units of measure for each stage based on your work breakdown structure (WBS) in Primavera P6. For example, if the plumbing installation requires 100,000 linear feet of pipe, the unit of measure would be linear feet. The planned number would be 100,000, against which completed construction is measured.
As construction progresses, Doxel updates the number of completed activities. For instance, if only 20,000 linear feet of pipe have been installed for the drainage system, the 360-degree imaging would capture the work, and Doxel would update the percentage of completion for both the stage (drainage system) and the trade (plumbing) to 20%.
To help manage schedules effectively, Doxel introduced the Production Forecasting Calculator. This tool allows users to simulate different scenarios by adjusting crew sizes and production rates to forecast completion. General contractors can manage subcontractors to ensure they stay on schedule. At the same time, owner’s reps can monitor production rates remotely, gaining confidence that construction progress is on track based on actual data.
Production Rate Data compares completed construction against your schedule, providing a single source of truth for measuring construction progress. Doxel’s system allows you to manage productivity for each stage of the construction project by trade, zone, and floor. This capability empowers project owners with a controlled data set that facilitates better communication with general contractors and helps address potential schedule delays proactively.
By giving project owners control of the data, Doxel ensures a higher level of transparency and efficiency in construction management. This innovative approach enhances collaboration and significantly reduces the risk of delays, optimizing time and resources. With Doxel’s Production Rate Data, project owners can confidently steer their projects to successful completion.
Accurate and reliable progress tracking is essential for effective communication and coordination, especially with multiple stakeholders and a higher level of complexity. Automated construction progress tracking can meet these requirements and reduce manual effort, helping you complete your projects faster and on-budget.
Healthcare construction is more complex and has a lot at stake. If not done right, these projects can be costly for everyone involved. Healthcare projects also require a higher attention to detail to keep everything running smoothly.
With more stakeholders involved in the process, companies need to be able to benchmark and be equipped for better prediction, transparency, and ultimately the ability to detect (and curb) problems, deviations, and cost overruns.
Automated progress tracking can meet these requirements and reduce manual effort, helping you complete your projects faster and on-budget.
Progress tracking is critical for project success in healthcare because it allows for real-time monitoring of project performance and a faster identification of issues and challenges, and implementation of corrective actions.
By regularly monitoring progress and performance, project managers and teams can quickly identify areas that are falling behind schedule or budget—and take the necessary steps to address them before they become major issues. Accurate and reliable progress tracking is essential for effective communication and coordination, especially with multiple stakeholders and a higher level of complexity.
Progress tracking can be beneficial beyond one single project, too. Objective progress data and insights can also help to identify areas of success and best practices that can be replicated in other projects, improving overall project performance and company-wide outcomes.
Automated progress tracking can improve transparency during hospital construction by providing real-time, accurate information on the progress of the project. Automated systems can be configured to collect data from a variety of sources, create a single source of truth and present the information in a format that is easy to understand and always accessible.
With the enhanced, real-time visibility that automated progress tracking brings, stakeholders are able to see exactly where the project is at any given time. This clear picture of project status helps improve communication, transparency, and accountability with objective data that eliminate any debate in progress tracking.
Automated progress tracking is a faster way of providing stakeholders with access to the same information. With an automated system, stakeholders are able to see the same data and reports, regardless of their location. Ensuring everyone is working with the same information saves time in reporting and mitigates the possibility of miscommunication or misunderstanding.
Since hospital construction projects often involve large sums of money and have a significant impact on patient outcomes, it’s also useful to have an auditable record of each project’s progress that can be used in demonstrating accountability to funders and regulatory bodies.
Healthcare construction projects need an efficient way to manage and mitigate risk. Proper real-time visibility into the progress of the project can help spot potential issues before they become major problems. This enables project managers and other stakeholders to take proactive measures, rather than waiting until it is too late to take corrective action.
For example, if progress tracking reveals a particular aspect of the project is running behind schedule, the project manager may be able to adjust the project plan to effectively avoid potential delays or cost overruns.
Additionally, progress tracking can help project managers manage and coordinate dependencies between different parts of the project, which further reduces the risk of delay, prevents trade stacking, and mitigates other issues arising from one part of the project impacting others.
Progress tracking can help with benchmarking by providing a clear understanding of the current status of the project, including the status of all trade and any related delays or setbacks. This data can then be used to compare the project’s progress against similar projects or industry standards, making it easier to identify areas where improvements can be made.
With multiple sources of information on a single project, a digital progress tracking tool can deliver accurate data to one shared source of truth, making benchmarking markedly easier.
Additionally, progress tracking stored data can be leveraged for benchmarking future progress against previous internal projects for better forecasting future project and completion dates, as well as for identifying potential cost savings or other opportunities to optimize the project.
The more detailed information teams have on the progress of a project, the more proactive they can be to keep it on track. Identifying potential issues early on allows for corrective action to be taken sooner rather than later, reducing hours, rework, and delays to deliver projects on time and on budget. But detailed and timely progress tracking shouldn’t come at the cost of crews’ time and resources.
That’s where a solution like Doxel’s automated progress tracking can help. Doxel significantly reduces hours tracking progress, while delivering accurate, reliable objective insights that improve communication and transparency across all stakeholders.
Click here to learn more about how Doxel’s AI-powered progress tracking paired with 360-degree video capture can help ensure hospital construction projects stay on track and on budget.
Healthcare construction teams that leverage AI-powered performance monitoring are armed with accurate data in near real-time to keep projects on track.
Healthcare construction is a specialized niche in the industry, and the projects within it require a high standard of attention to detail to meet their deadlines. These projects are complex and involve the coordination of large, cross-functional teams to complete them on tight schedules—which means a project’s success is majorly dependent on the efficiency and collaboration of the team building it.
Every day that the facility is delayed or past schedule means another day patients can’t come in, and the owner or company will lose money.
Enter, AI-powered project controls – automated construction progress tracking.
The construction of healthcare projects is a delicate balance of innovation and realism. As one of the more technology-driven sectors, these facilities aim to have the latest and greatest equipment, but at the same time needs to be planned months in advance and available within a certain deadline. Teams must stay on top of an ever-changing landscape and varying demands—so having accurate, objective project progress data throughout is essential.
One of the biggest factors to staying on schedule is knowing exactly where you are. Without a single view of project progress, sticking to a set schedule becomes a risky guessing game. Progress tracking using the power of computer vision enables project teams to build faster and more accurately together.
After all, knowledge is power. Teams that leverage AI-powered performance monitoring are armed with accurate data in near real time to see backwards at what’s been done, as well as ahead at predictive insights.
Rework can be a project schedule’s worst nightmare—and the later it’s caught the bigger a scheduling headache you have on your hands. Rework takes valuable time away from what should be forward progress. In order to achieve schedule predictability, a project team has to be able to spot (and avoid) potential rework on the critical path.
Using computer vision automated construction progress tracking that acts as a digital surveyor, superintendents can quickly catch any missing or incorrectly installed components before the next trade covers up the error. This foresight can help avoid weeks of delays and schedule compression, which ultimately helps the facility stay on track to open on time or earlier.
Real-time automated construction progress tracking doesn’t just help with new healthcare construction—it can also help reduce downtime during facility operations down the road.
Picture it (if you dare): A construction company closes off an area to cut into the wall and fix MEP services only to discover that it wasn’t installed per as-built plans. Instead of adhering to the plan, dreaded rework is now required.
But what if you had x-ray vision instead? Comprehensive reality capture of an as-built facility ensures maintenance teams know exactly what was installed and where, so any maintenance and retrofits can be done efficiently without the rework. Instead of costing days of downtime, teams can get in and get it done as planned the first time.
At its core, Doxel is automated construction progress tracking that provides objective, accurate data on materials installed for real-time project controls. The more teams can document in the moment, the more productive and proactive they become.
Find out how healthcare projects have used Doxel to deliver facilities earlier and at a higher standard of quality.
Doxel is thrilled to partner with Corscale in revolutionizing the landscape of data center construction, setting a new standard for the industry.
Gainesville, VA – (November, 2023) – Corscale, the exclusive data center platform of the Patrinely Group, has announced that it will be deploying Doxel, the leader in AI automated construction progress tracking to speed the pace of construction and reduce waste on upcoming data center construction.
“Corscale is focused on implementing industry leading construction and sustainability initiatives. We are committed to building efficiently. Doxel will help us accelerate construction schedules and deliver critical data centers faster.” said Nic Bustamante, Chief Technology Officer for Corscale. Prior to his current position, Nic was the Senior Vice President of Development at Corscale and held leadership roles at Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
The rise in artificial intelligence, specifically Natural Language Processing (NLP), computer vision, and machine learning, and robotics, is increasing the already strong demand for data center solutions. Corscale will now harness the power of AI to build the data centers that deliver AI.
“Doxel is thrilled to partner with Corscale in revolutionizing the landscape of data center construction. Corscale’s commitment to industry-leading initiatives aligns with Doxel’s mission to transform construction through the power of AI. We aim to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of constructing data centers, setting a new standard for the industry. This collaboration represents a significant stride toward the future, where AI not only powers data centers but also drives their seamless and sustainable construction.” – Saurabh Ladha, CEO of Doxel.
The partnership with Doxel reflects Corscale’s forward-thinking approach to stay at the forefront of technological advancements. By incorporating AI into the construction process, Corscale not only meets the rising demand for data center solutions but also pioneers a path toward intelligent, sustainable, and swift data center deployment.
Corscale Data Centers is focused on delivering sustainability at scale. As the exclusive data center platform of the Patrinely Group, Corscale, together with its capital partner USAA Real Estate is delivering tomorrow’s data center, today. The company has assembled a top-tier team of industry professionals who bring decades of experience designing, building, and operating sustainable, high-density data centers for some of the largest and most sophisticated hyperscale operators and enterprises. Corscale delivers highly scalable, secure, and energy-efficient build-to-suit powered shells as well as flexible modular deployments. To learn more, please visit Corscale.
Doxel is focused on speeding up construction and reducing waste by using AI to automate progress tracking. Doxel believes in the power of aligned teams and designed Doxel to unlock their full potential. With Doxel, owners have full observability on their site while providing their field teams with powerful tools that prevent delays, over-billing, re-work, and trade stacking. Backed by Insight Partners, Amplo, and Andreessen Horowitz and with a growing team of engineers, scientists and construction veterans, Doxel is driven to help their customers win.
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Accurate, reliable data allows construction companies to remove subjectivity and replace it with objective accountability.
Communication can make or break a construction project. A report from the Project Management Institute found that ineffective communication was the main contributor to project failure one-third of the time. An even more alarming finding from the research is that 56% of budgets allocated to projects are at risk due to poor communication.
Without objective insights alignment among field and office teams, knowing what’s happening on a project becomes a daunting task—one that could put a project (and its profitability) at risk.
1. Delayed communication
Timely communication (especially between the field and the office) is hard to achieve. Field teams are focused on a hundred different things at once, and relaying project updates typically happens at the end of their day. Because field leaders aren’t able to instantly communicate every facet of a project’s progress as it happens, there is a lag time and gap in each day’s reporting.
2. Inconsistent communication
In addition to being delayed, communication from the field to the office isn’t always consistent. The more variables and people added to the equation, the more potential for confusion and uncertainty. Communication on a project can very quickly turn into a game of telephone—and teams are forced to hold more meetings and conversations to ensure mutual understanding.
3. Missing communication
While delayed and inconsistent communication can hold a project back, missing communication can halt it entirely. If proper communication isn’t happening, neither is profitable building.
All these challenges in communication don’t just create extra stress and work on a project—they can have a deeper impact on the data and tracking, too. Without everyone on the same page, the reporting and insights are left to everyone’s individual perspective. As a result, the project’s insights suffer.
Accurate, reliable data allows construction companies to remove subjectivity and replace it with objective accountability. Insights that are trackable and consistent bring everyone together on the same page to make informed decisions, faster.
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The key to collecting reliable insights is through automated progress tracking. The right tool can increase team alignment and communication, without adding effort to the project team’s plate.
Doxel brings predictability to construction projects by providing critical insight with objective analytics. The AI-powered computer vision builds a digital twin of the jobsite on a weekly basis—providing true progress reporting and near real-time data. Doxel acts as a digital surveyor to capture and quantify project progress and eliminates the need for teams to manually calculate and report on it. The result is detailed, shared progress tracking from a single source across every project stakeholder and subcontractor.
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Doxel CEO Saurabh Ladha is featured on The QTS Experience Podcast with David McCall. David and Saurabh discuss the impact of waste and rework in construction.
Saurabh discusses how Doxel integrates AI with established processes to build faster. Join us for the conversation, on the next QTS Experience. Episode 191; Saurabh Ladha: Intuitive Construction, AI, Doxel, Innovation, Data Center.
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Many construction companies are at a crossroads as they think about the future of their business, and who will be a part of it.
More than 40% of the current U.S. construction workforce is expected to retire over the next decade. This generation of seasoned superintendents and project leaders will leave behind big shoes to fill in both skill and knowledge, and the industry’s current skilled labor shortage doesn’t exactly help either.
While many owners, GCs and trade contractors have programs in place to mentor younger generations and train them to step in, it won’t be enough to bridge the gap. That’s why it’s important for companies to ensure they are innovating to attract more workers of a new generation.
The construction industry has made huge strides to change and adopt more technology, but it can’t stop now. The younger generation that’s coming into the workforce over the next ten years was raised in a time where technology was already prevalent and is like second nature to them.
If a company wants to attract and retain a new generation of field leaders, they need to have processes in place that don’t just utilize technology, but are on the forefront of innovation, too.
A project isn’t truly done until it’s done done. And whether or not it gets to done done on time and under budget all comes down to how it’s being tracked during the construction phase. The old way of progress tracking involves a ton of manual effort and even more paper. Field teams would have to document what happened by hand on a regular basis and manually report on the overall progress completed.
Not only was this inefficient and extremely time-consuming, it also made it nearly impossible to try to predict where the project was headed or spot any potential issues fast enough to fix them. Even with the utilization of 3D and BIM models, knowing where a project stands hasn’t been as automated as it should be.
Convincing new, younger workers to take on these outdated processes isn’t an easy sell. Chances are, they’ll feel their time is being wasted since they are so used to the convenience and automation that technology can bring. In order to attract more workers to be on project and field teams, the processes they follow need to be seamless and even a little exciting.
Construction companies that are leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate the collection and analysis of project data are already ahead of the game. While the new generation may be more traditionally more technologically savvy, AI is new and exciting to everyone.
Rather than spending hours per week manually inputting and calculating progress and materials, solutions like Doxel use AI alongside 360-degree capture to automatically identify true, objective progress. This ability to bring predictability to projects doesn’t just save field teams time—it provides critical insights that help avoid delays and cost overruns at the overarching project level.
Instead of them feeling like just another cog in the machine there to collect data over and over again, technology of this caliber empowers workers to think critically about the status of projects and seek a deeper understanding of what’s happening each day. Not to mention the sense of fulfillment that comes when a team works together on a project that is able to be completed earlier with increased safety, less expense, and higher quality.
We can help you empower a new generation of field leaders. See how Doxel works in a personalized demo today.
