Construction progress dashboards built from drawing markups
Installers mark what they have installed. The dashboard updates straight away, with percent complete by system and quantities the office and the field both trust.
The trouble with end-of-week progress reports
Most construction progress dashboards are built after the fact. Site teams mark up drawings, someone collects them, and someone else turns them into a spreadsheet and a set of charts. The dashboard is only as current as the last time that cycle ran, which is often once a week. Building it also takes hours that project managers would rather spend on the job.
That leaves engineering, scheduling and management making decisions on old numbers. Because each report is put together by hand, it is hard to trace any figure back to what is actually on site. The report and the site drift apart, and the gap only shows when someone walks the floor.
Markups become dashboard data instantly
Install Insights removes the reporting cycle. Installers mark installed work on the drawings they already use, or on a lightweight 3D viewer built from the project's Revit model. Each mark is read straight into structured data: quantities, status and percent complete.
Nobody has to collect sheets, re-key numbers or build the report. Status changes as soon as an area is marked, so the dashboard shows where each crew has got to today, not where they were last Friday. A run of containment finished on Tuesday afternoon shows up in the numbers on Tuesday afternoon.
There is no end-of-week reporting, because the dashboard never waits for one. How crews mark up the drawings is covered in MEP installation progress tracking.
Percent complete by system, from real quantities
MEP work is measured by system, so that is how the dashboard reports it. Percent complete by system is calculated from quantities in the model data behind each drawing, not from a manual take-off. Isolate a single system to see what is installed and what is left. That gives a straight answer to the question every progress meeting asks: how much of each system is in?
The quantities come from the same model the design team works from, so nobody argues over whose take-off is right. Progress can also be mapped to activities in your Primavera P6 schedule.
The office and the field see the same truth
A dashboard is only useful if both sides believe it. Because the numbers come straight from what installers mark, the office and the field look at the same data. It is cloud based and opens on a desktop in the office or on a tablet or phone on site. Engineering, scheduling and management get immediate progress insight, not end-of-week guesses.
Project managers stop chasing updates. Crews stop filling in reports. Main contractors and owners get progress from the MEP trades that is current and checkable, and clear sight of what is installed makes coordination tighter and issues easier to spot early.
Set up from the drawings and model you already have
There is no hardware to fit and no new way of working to roll out. Install Insights works from your PDF drawing sheets, a Revit model exported with the Install Insights Revit exporter, and your project schedule. Installers need no training, and nobody on site needs BIM skills or licences. BIM coordinators set the project up from the model they already own, and installers just start marking.
The model side is explained in Revit model progress tracking. The free trial runs on one project, so you can judge the dashboards on your own drawings.
See installation progress as it happens
Set it up on a project of your own, or book a demo to see the dashboards first.