Standards & Contracts
ISO 19650 makes the CDE a controlled process—not a folder
Information requirements, states, review, authorization, acceptance, responsibility, and exchange are the operating system behind a common data environment.
Newsroom
Construction systems, project controls, and field intelligence
Reporting on project systems, standards, contracts, cost, schedule, field execution, provider change, and construction technology decisions.
Project Controls
GAO's schedule guide tests the data date—not the dashboard
Complete activities, logic, resources, durations, critical path, float, risk, status, and baseline control must remain visible behind a schedule score.
Project Controls
GAO's cost guide keeps estimates reproducible
Scope, assumptions, data, methods, sensitivity, risk, documentation, update, and reconciliation matter more than an estimating interface.
Standards & Contracts
Construction safety records do not replace field control
Digital permits, observations, inspections, and incident records can support a safety program while qualified people and employers still control work.
Standards & Contracts
IFC 2024 keeps interoperability version-specific
Schema version, model view, entities, properties, geometry, validation, and exchange evidence must be named before an IFC claim becomes useful.
Standards & Contracts
IDS turns selected BIM requirements into checkable records
Machine-readable information requirements can improve model checking only when project adoption, responsibility, source models, exceptions, and acceptance remain explicit.
Research
Suite buyers need one project event across systems
Procore, Autodesk, CMiC, Trimble, Oracle, and Sage all document broad construction workflows; the real test is whether one imperfect event remains traceable across documents, cost, schedule, field, accounting, and closeout.
Field Intelligence
Field platforms need a closed-task test
A task, observation, inspection, punch item, or daily report should be traced to current information, location, work, correction, acceptance, cost, schedule, and retained evidence.
Project Controls
Construction payment platforms need an earned-to-settled trace
Applications, compliance records, approvals, waivers, disbursement, bank settlement, accounting, and final account are separate states with different authorities.
Field Intelligence
Reality capture needs a coverage and acceptance boundary
Images, maps, point clouds, model alignment, progress classification, issue detection, and accepted installed work are not the same evidence class.
Project Controls
Production planning is not the master schedule
Touchplan and Last Planner workflows operate at different decision horizons from contract and CPM schedules, even when activities and commitments are connected.
Research
Owner platforms need a decision-rights map
Unifier, e-Builder, Kahua, Aurigo, PMWeb, Projectmates, and EcoSys overlap on capital-program records while owning different workflows, architectures, and decision boundaries.