Leverage your data across your enterprise.
The building process is slow, expensive, and risky.
Data is fast, cheap, and can provide new levels of
certainty. Data is an essential medium for delivering transformational solutions that address the challenges facing our built world. And you likely already have access to plenty of it.
In the building industry, “one size fits all” solutions are hard to come by. While there are some readymade products on the market, customized tools and automated processes greatly enhance workflows.
In addition to these custom-built solutions, our data management apps Tracer for Revit and IFC and Semantic for Rhino can launch your team into using BIM data today!
We create platforms that transform building
information into useful data resources.
Our approach is collaborative and agile. We work directly with business leaders to identify opportunities to leverage data, grow knowledge, and
streamline processes.
WE WORK ALONGSIDE OUR CLIENTS TO:
- Roadmap a Business Intelligence strategy
- Centralize building data with Data Warehousing
- Create templates for connecting multiple data sources to your reports.
- Gain operational insight with Data Visualization
- Achieve long-term ROI with a Digital Twin Strategy
- Build your team’s skillset with Data Management Training
Get in touch with us to learn more!
RECENT WORK…
Power BI templates for evaluating Revit model content for compliance with a retail owner’s facility standards.
Power BI dashboard layouts integrating data for project management and facility maintenance for the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Power BI training for architects and designers to support data-driven design decisions at LS3P.
Why use BI for Building Design and Construction?
Make smart, data-driven decisions
Accessible to everyone on your team
Create powerful presentations
Combine multiple data sources
Create interactive reports that use data to support decision making from conceptual design to building operations. BI reports allow all stakeholders to understand the impact of decisions on the most important metrics impacting your project. 
Data should be available and used by everyone. Whether you are a designer, manager, or executive, business intelligence tools provide a low barrier to entry for non-experts in data. Users can create powerful reports and visualizations of building data without writing a single line of code. 
The use of data is not “one size fits all”. Using business intelligence, you can craft dashboards tailored to your project or workflow. BI helps you tell your business and project story. 
Building industry data is often spread across multiple frameworks, databases, building information models, and drawings. Business intelligence can be used to combine these sources of data into reports that allow you to see correlations, patterns, and relationships.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION:
“Our approach in creating BI extensions for the AECO industry aims at addressing the widespread need for insightful and presentable data among experts and non-experts.”
Nathan Miller, CEO
Read the full article:
“Business Intelligence – 5 Drivers for Adoption in Architecture and Construction”
CASE STUDY
Digital Facilities Management
Proving Ground developed standards for BIM and data integration to support design, construction, and operations for the University of Nebraska Medical Center. With their new system in place, architects and contractors are able to implement activities in order of priority, ranked to optimize the facility and operations team’s long-term wellbeing.
Proving Ground developed a project execution plan template that defined workflows for model coordination and data delivery between owner, architect, and builder. Proving Ground also set Revit model data standards which are the basis for systems integration by the campus facilities team.
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