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CConstruction & handover Category 10 of 12

Construction & Completions

Construction software takes the design and plan to the field: work packages and constraints, daily progress and quantities, quality inspections, punch lists, and the mechanical completion and commissioning records that hand systems over to operations. Advanced work packaging links engineering, procurement and construction sequences, and 4D tools tie the model to the schedule so the build sequence can be rehearsed before crews mobilise.

5 software5 assessedLeader Procore

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Ranking

Ordered by EPC Index; products still awaiting assessment follow.

  1. 01
    ProcoreProcore Technologies
    83
  2. 02
    Forma BuildAutodesk
    78
  3. 03
    SYNCHROBentley Systems
    75
  4. 04 73
  5. 05 73

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How to choose

Start with the field user. Mobile, offline-capable tools that supervisors actually use produce better progress data than richer systems that live in the site office.

If you run advanced work packaging, check how packages draw constraints from engineering, materials and scaffolding status rather than being assembled by hand.

Completions and commissioning are a discipline of their own. Make sure systems, subsystems, check sheets and punch items can be tracked to turnover with an audit trail the owner accepts.

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Coverage