Revit model progress tracking with no BIM skills on site
Export your Revit model with the Install Insights Revit exporter. Installers mark installed elements on a lightweight 3D viewer built from it, and the office sees progress by system as the work happens.
Why the Revit model rarely gets used for progress
The Revit model already holds most of what an MEP contractor needs to measure progress: the ductwork, pipework, containment and fittings, organised by system. Yet on most projects, progress is still counted on paper and typed into spreadsheets.
The reason is access. Opening the model takes BIM software, licences and people trained to use it. Site teams rarely have any of the three, so the model stays in the office. Meanwhile someone keeps a separate take-off by hand, and it drifts further from the model with every revision.
For a BIM coordinator, that is frustrating. The most accurate record of the job sits unused while the site measures progress with a highlighter.
Export the model with the Install Insights Revit exporter
Install Insights starts where the model already lives. The BIM coordinator exports it with the Install Insights Revit exporter, an add-in for Revit, and sets the project up from that export.
The export brings the model's geometry and the quantitative data behind it into Install Insights. The same data enriches the PDF drawing sheets crews work from, so the drawings and the model tell the same story.
The model stays in Revit, with the people who own it. Nobody on site needs to know Revit. The BIM coordinator does the export, and installers simply mark their work.
A lightweight 3D viewer built from the model geometry
From the export, Install Insights builds a lightweight 3D viewer from the model geometry. It runs on desktop, tablet and phone, so it goes wherever the crew goes. There are no BIM licences to buy for site and no BIM skills needed to find your way around.
Installers see the elements they are working on in context, without the weight of a full design model. The viewer is there to answer one question quickly: what is in, and what is not. It is built for marking progress, not for design work, which is why it stays light enough to use on a phone on site.
Mark installed elements as the work is done
On the viewer, installers select the elements they have installed and mark them. They can do the same on the drawings they already use. Either way, the mark is recorded against the model's elements, so quantities and percent complete by system follow on their own. Crews use whichever view suits the task: the drawing for a floor they know well, the viewer when they need to see a riser or a crowded ceiling void in 3D.
Because the mark lands on the element, a run of pipe counts as the pipe it is, not as a highlighter stroke someone has to measure later. There are no take-offs to run and nothing to re-key. For the drawing side of the workflow, read about MEP installation progress tracking.
Progress the whole project team can see
Marked elements show up straight away on live dashboards: percent complete by system, quantities installed and status, updated as the work happens. Engineering, scheduling and management all read the same numbers. No one has to turn a highlighted drawing into a percentage before the numbers reach the office.
Project managers stop chasing crews for updates. BIM coordinators see the model they built used on site. Main contractors and owners get progress from the MEP trades that is current and checkable. See how it comes together on construction progress dashboards.
Put your Revit model to work on site
Try it free on one of your own projects, or book a demo and we will walk you through the viewer.