Industry
Model, site and cost data in one audit trail
Model data, site records and payment workflow in one auditable trail from design to handover.
Context
Technology in Real Estate & Construction
We build project controls, site capture applications, document and model management, and the valuation and payment workflow that runs between main contractors and their supply chain. Construction data is unusual in that the authoritative record is often a file — an IFC model, a drawing revision, a signed instruction — and the engineering job is to make those files queryable without losing their status as the record.
Building safety duties have made record-keeping a legal obligation with named accountable persons, so audit trails now matter as much as functionality. One caution: a digital twin with no maintained sensor estate and no owner is a screensaver with a maintenance contract. We only recommend live building models where somebody is funded to keep the instrumentation calibrated for the asset's life.
- 6 weeks to 4 days
- lag between site progress and commercial reporting at Halden Group
- 290,000
- model elements versioned and queryable across a single scheme
- 94%
- of payment notices issued inside the statutory window after workflow rollout
Challenges
What actually keeps this sector awake
Not generic disruption — the specific constraints that shape every technology decision here.
Model data locked inside files
Federated IFC models are exchanged as files by email and portal upload, so no one can answer a simple question such as which doors changed between revisions without opening three authoring tools and comparing by eye.
The golden thread as a legal duty
Building safety regimes require a maintained, accurate information trail from design through occupation, with accountable persons named. Most projects hold that information across shared drives, email chains and a document system nobody updated after practical completion.
Valuation and payment disputes
Applications for payment, assessments, retention and variations are tracked in spreadsheets, and disagreements about what was agreed on site become adjudication. Statutory payment notice deadlines pass while the paperwork is being reconciled.
Cost signal arriving too late to act on
Commercial reporting lags site reality by four to six weeks, so overruns become visible after the work causing them is complete. By the time a cost report lands, the recovery options that existed are gone.
Approach
How we address them
IFC ingestion into a queryable model service
Models parsed into a queryable store with element-level history across revisions, so change between issues is a query rather than an inspection. The authoring files remain the record and stay linked to every derived answer.
Golden thread records with tamper-evident history
Documents, models, instructions and inspections held with immutable versioning, accountable person assignment and structured handover packages, so the information duty is satisfied by the system rather than by a scramble at completion.
Valuation and payment workflow with the clock built in
Application, assessment, notice and certificate stages with statutory deadlines tracked and escalated, supported by site evidence captured against the same work item so a dispute starts from a shared record.
Site capture that works without a signal
Offline-first applications for inspections, progress and quality records, with conflict resolution designed for a site where three people record the same pour. Data reaches commercial reporting in days rather than weeks.
Services
Relevant practices
Engineering
Custom Software Development
Systems built around the processes no packaged product was ever going to cover.
Engineering
Enterprise Integration
Contracts, idempotency and replay — the unglamorous parts that keep 40 systems in step.
Engineering
Mobile App Development
Native and cross-platform apps built for field conditions, not conference demos.
Engineering
IoT Development
Firmware, connectivity and telemetry pipelines for devices you cannot easily reach.
AI & Data
Data Engineering
Pipelines with contracts, tests and an on-call rota, not a folder of scheduled scripts.
Design
UI/UX Design
Research, interaction design and design systems for software people use every day.
Products
Platforms used in this sector
Operations
Atmora Vault
A content repository with retention, legal hold and an audit entry on every read.
Operations
Atmora Track
Plans, capacity, timesheets and billing on one model, so the schedule and the invoice agree.
Operations
Workflow Automation
Approvals, exceptions and hand-offs modelled as processes you can version, measure and change without a release.
Operations
Vendor Portal
Purchase orders, dispatch notes and invoices handled by suppliers themselves, matched before they reach accounts payable.
Operations
Visitor Management
Visitor, contractor and delivery access control for multi-site campuses.