Introducing Connex - One Platform to Connect the Field and the Office!
In construction, we often see a significant gap between the office and the field – and this is not a new challenge. Whether you are on the jobsite or in the office, it is common to feel like you are operating in a silo with little to no visibility into your counterparts’ world.
But we are seeing new ways of working and data is being collected in high speed – the industry is transforming, and it is adapting to these new ways. Yet, at the same time, project risk is increasing with very little space for miscommunication and mistakes. Therefore, today more than ever, we need to close the gap and connect all teams that are ready to embrace as well as excel in our industry’s future.
To empower our customers for success in an industry undergoing digital transformation, we are now introducing Connex - a new unified platform to connect workflows, data and teams throughout all phases in construction. With Connex everyone is working on the same interface and can seamlessly and effectively communicate in real-time across project stakeholders saving time, money and resources.
Customized Construction Project Management Workflows
Keep the project on track and stay ahead of project delays and budget overruns. Changes to the project material is constantly occurring as construction projects progresses and it is highly important to document all changes with configured, streamlined and connected workflows like escalating an issue to and RFI, and RFI to change order. You can link nearly any references – photos, issues, documents – and project stakeholders can understand the impact of changes faster and avoid project delays and budget overruns.
Seamlessly manage and connect workflows: To streamline workflows and reduce the risk of data loss, link RFIs to other tasks, escalate issues to RFIs, and RFIs to future change orders. Connex creates traceability and enables you to follow derived consequences of, for example, changes in which time, finance, safety or quality are affected.
Custom workflows and forms: You can customize your workflows in Connex to fit exactly your need and company standards. Digitize and streamline your inspections, design issues, change requests, NCR reports, Variation Order Forms and a lot more with Connex. Fast, easy and efficient.
Centralize processes, agreements and decisions: Gather everything in one place, and avoid having important decisions and communication spread across emails, CDE’s and other media. Connex ensures valuable documentation of changes throughout the whole project for all collaborating construction entities.
Track construction progress: To minimize uncertainty and miscommunication, you can track, visualize and report on work progress. The interactive dashboards are a true time saver giving you an easy overview and accurate status of each project’s related risks. This makes it easy to identify tasks or other critical issues that are likely to affect the design, schedule or economy of your projects. Make data-driven decisions based on real-time project data.
Enhance collaboration: To enhance communication and streamline construction workflows, connect all project stakeholders to the system online.
Collaborative Quality and Safety Tools
Make miscommunication a thing of the past with easy-to-use software for safety and efficiency and provide real-time project updates to the entire team. With forms and issues, the entire team can contribute to quality and safety conformance. Manage your health and safety issues in Connex to prevent accidents and hazards on your construction site.
Standardize quality control: Improve quality inspection procedures by standardizing them, resolve problems quicker, and reduce the possibility of rework.
Centralize issues management: Use a single centralized issues list to empower scattered teams to track and resolve quality issues faster.
Effective safety planning: Create and execute standardized safety plans for your projects and prevent safety blind spots and risky situations at your construction sites.
Maintain safer work environments: Use the automatic issue creation for non-conforming checklist items and unsafe observation to quickly assign safety issues to team members.
Simplified Project Closeout
Leave the stressful parts out of the construction closeout by connecting all data from the field and the office and hereby ensuring that the documentation is always right at your fingertips.
Streamline commissioning and turnover: Reduce the time it takes to access asset data onsite, perform commissioning, and resolve defects while reducing the risks.
Precise and in-depth turnover documentation: Download documents in the most up-to-date version and hard copy of a project, organized by folder for an easier navigation.
Fast and complete as-builts: Develop as-builts to assist with efficient operations and facilities management, including the export of drawings, models, documents and photos.
Interactive 3D BIM mobile viewer
Bring 3D modelled design with you to the construction site. Start sharing information, drawings and the BIM model with your project stakeholders. The strong BIM viewer in Connex is supported on alle mobile devices with intuitive navigation to enhance your on-site inspection of constructability issues, design coordination or viewing the properties of the BIM objects.
All project material at your fingertips: You have direct access to your BIM model, you can create tasks, inspect the design material and identify project issues quickly and easily. Follow status, keep track of deadlines and get your daily to-do list with tasks that need your attention.
Completely integrated with workflows: Execute all your workflows on the go with Connex Mobile. Create tasks directly in the BIM model or from your 2D plan, add information, photos, files etc. Project stakeholders can access and keep track of tasks, see exactly where the information is located in the BIM model and thereby minimize the risk for errors, misunderstandings and misalignment.
2D and 3D combined: Explore your construction project in both 2D and 3D. All 2D plans are automatically generated and aligned with your 3D model, when you upload your IFC file. Save 80% of your time aligning 2D plans with 3D geometry manually for each location - Connex will do all the work for you.
World-class navigation: The BIM viewer make your BIM experience intuitive as a game, and it’s very fast, easy and intuitive to fly around in the model. You can also find specific places of interest by navigating the 2D plans or via the built-on location structure.
Markups and annotations: Get the feedback you need quickly and easy. When you create a task in 3D and/or 2D, the viewer will make a snapshot of the location. Use the markup tool and make annotations to provide more information and details of the issue. Connex BIM enables transparency and enhance communication between all project stakeholders.
Offline capabilities: You can seamlessly access project data from anywhere. You can work offline, and don’t have to worry about the mobile coverage.
Integrated CDE
Connex is integrated with RIB Project, which allows you to access models and link files. RIB Project also makes it possible for teams to store as well as manage all project documents and data from design through construction in a Common Data Environment. On any project, teams can manage document workflows consistently and accurately, adhere to key industry standards, and confidently distribute documents across a large workforce.
Open API’s
We don't believe in just adding more point solutions and software silos to the already very fragmented solution landscape. You own all your collected data and data is a strategic asset that you need to be enabled to leverage in your data strategy. Therefore, we have chosen to develop the entire Connex platform using open API’s, so you can secure the future of your data.
Use the API to:
Import or export data
Develop your own applications
Integrate with 3rd party applications and collect data in Connex