Coordinate before building
BIM and VDC tools help teams coordinate design intent with construction reality. Selection depends on authoring ecosystems, model size, issue workflows, field access, and whether the common data environment will serve one team or the full project network.
Which authoring formats and model sizes must it support?
Can issues flow to the people who resolve them?
Will field teams actually open and navigate the models?
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Autodesk Forma is Autodesk's AECO industry cloud. The construction products formerly grouped under Autodesk Construction Cloud now carry the Forma name, including Forma Build, Data Management, Takeoff, and Design Collaboration.
Oracle Aconex manages documents, communications, workflows, models, and project records across large owner and contractor ecosystems.
OpenSpace Capture maps smartphone, 360° camera, drone, and supported laser-scan imagery to project plans, creating a navigable record of site conditions. Progress Track is a separate capability that compares captured conditions with model and schedule data.
ALICE is a cloud construction-simulation and schedule-optimization platform. ALICE Core starts from an imported Primavera schedule, while ALICE Pro adds a BIM-first workflow that links means and methods, quantities, resources, schedule, cost, and 4D context.
Asite’s CDE is a cloud environment for documents, revisions, metadata, reviews, forms, workflows, models, issues, reports, and structured handover across capital projects. Asite also sells broader portfolio, supply-chain, and asset products, but those should not be assumed to be included in a CDE subscription.
Asta Powerproject supports detailed construction schedules, resource and cost planning, earned value, what-if scenarios, schedule-quality analysis, and 4D simulation.
Navisworks combines multidisciplinary models for visual review, clash detection, schedule simulation, construction sequencing, quantification, and issue coordination.
Revit supports architectural, structural, and MEP modeling, analysis, documentation, schedules, construction modeling, fabrication context, automation, and cloud collaboration.
autoLOTO uses a live digital twin and guided mobile workflows to manage locks, equipment state, LOTO procedures, energization, and electronic methods of procedure.
The current BIMcollab platform connects documents, federated models, BCF issues, IDS requirements, model checking, reporting, and authoring-tool workflows.
Buildots processes regular 360° site captures against the project BIM and schedule to report installed work, production trends, incomplete areas, and emerging delay risk. It is an enterprise controls layer rather than a general-purpose photo repository.
CupixWorks turns 360° walkthroughs and other spatial inputs into a navigable site record linked with plans and models. Builders plans emphasize construction documentation and collaboration; Unified plans add broader drone, GIS, LiDAR, and enterprise data workflows.
Dalux spans several products rather than one all-inclusive license: Box for information management, Field and InfraField for site workflows, Tender for bid packages, Handover for structured delivery, and Dalux FM for operations. A free BIM Viewer and Field Basic are available alongside paid modules.
DroneDeploy is a cloud reality-capture platform with distinct aerial and ground workflows. It plans supported drone flights, processes images into maps and 3D models, and organizes phone and 360° imagery for site documentation; robots and fixed cameras can extend capture on enterprise programs.
FARO Sphere XG is the current cloud platform combining the former FARO Sphere environment with HoloBuilder workflows for 360° imagery, scans, point clouds, models, and remote review.
Newforma Konekt is Newforma’s current cloud project-information platform. Its modular Info Track, BIM Track, and CA Track products cover email and file context, document and transmittal control, 2D and 3D issue coordination, action items, RFIs, submittals, and change administration. It is distinct from the older installed Newforma Project Center product.
Reconstruct turns smartphone, 360° camera, drone, and other capture into measurable, time-based site records aligned with drawings and models.
Revizto federates 3D models, 2D sheets, reality-capture data, clash results, and project issues in a cloud-synchronized desktop and mobile environment. Teams use the Issue Tracker to keep comments, assignments, status, and visual context together.
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