Construction progress management (CPM) has evolved significantly, especially with the rise of digital tools. These tools have helped introduce new technology and modern ways of working. CPM processes like 360° photo capture and 3D scanning have made it easier to document progress, while digital jobsite platforms enhance remote team collaboration. And with connected hardware and software, like Blink and Sphere XG, managing your jobsite data has become much simpler.
Capture Your Jobsite
As jobsites get bigger, efficiently managing construction progress becomes key to ensuring high delivery standards. Easy-to-use 3D scanners, 360° cameras, and smartphone apps help teams to regularly capture site data monthly, weekly, or even daily. Frequent captures help create a dense historical record of construction progress, proving that work has been done according to protocol from groundbreaking to handover.
Integrated hardware and software solutions like the Blink and Sphere XG combination offer seamless connectivity and data collection through intuitive workflows to capture your site in measurable 3D point clouds and 360° photos. Blink’s guided scanning workflow ensures every part of the site is captured, regardless of your experience with scanners. To find the best scanning positions, the connected Stream App notifies you when moving too far. These simplified workflows promote wider use of scanners among your team. And more people being able to scan means more frequent scanning.
Once you’re done capturing, your scan data will be processed, registered and uploaded to Sphere XG automatically so that your 3D point clouds and 360° photos are saved on your floor plans. Thus, all your reality capture data is stored in a single location accessible by other project members, making construction progress transparent and traceable.
Remotely Access Your Project Documentation
How good is data if it’s not shared? Modern CPM practices embrace cloud-based platforms to access jobsite data remotely and share progress with the team and stakeholders, fostering a collaborative environment that keeps everyone updated.
Sphere XG allows you to share a simple link to a specific location of your progress documentation or the entire project. Users can then access 3D point clouds and 360° photos of your sites remotely to track construction progress over time, reducing the need for physical site visits. With the Time Travel drop-down, you can choose a documented point in time and view historical project data. To compare two points in time side-by-side, activate Split Screen and easily review work that has been done previously or virtually check what’s behind a wall.
Remote access transforms physical meetings into virtual site tours, navigating your jobsite, addressing issues, and ensuring everyone is on the same page. User access management provides the right people access only to what they are supposed to see. Separate permissions can be set for varying individuals or groups, allowing inspectors, superintendents, material suppliers, and owners differing levels of access to your digital construction data, so they can only see what is relevant to them.
Manage All of Your Reality Capture Data
With shared access to all your jobsite data, managing construction progress becomes collaborative and data-backed. Sphere XG not only visualizes your reality capture data from Blink, but also provides collaborative functions like annotations, comments, measurements, and notifications. This streamlines communication, improves problem-solving and reduces inefficient back-and-forth.
Obtain measurements of spaces, gaps, and other areas of your jobsite with millimeter-level accuracy with the measure tool by simply selecting two points within the 3D scans on Sphere XG. Use annotations to indicate objects, landmarks, entries, exits, and other elements within your scans and 360° photos. Leave comments to approve work, flag anomalies and potential deviations, or note structural issues. Team members and relevant stakeholders are alerted through personalized notifications, which link them directly to the issue within your site captures and provide context for quick and data-backed decision-making.
Stop Capturing Photos, Start Capturing Progress
Pairing intuitive hardware and software can make your construction progress management easier. The Blink scanner simplifies scanning for everybody and directly connects to the powerful Sphere XG digital reality platform.
From documenting your entire jobsite in 3D to measuring and inspecting build progress, Sphere XG and Blink are transforming your construction progress tracking into a strategic advantage.
