Revolutionizing Building Plan Reviews with AI for the AEC Industry and Municipalities

In construction and architecture, the process of reviewing building plans for compliance and identifying potential conflicts is critical and time-consuming. Building Sense is revolutionizing this traditional process by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to significantly enhance efficiency, ensuring rapid compliance verification and minimizing conflicts between building plans and municipality ordinances. 

Streamlining Compliance with AI

Compliance verification in the building plan review process ensures that proposed designs adhere to local, state, and federal regulations. We have experienced significant delays when builders may not notice changes from one municipality to another when designing proposed plans. Traditionally, this involves manual reviews that are not only labor-intensive but also prone to human error. To avoid these delays, Building Sense integrates our custom AI models to automate and refine this process, increasing compliance and reducing delays.

Automated Code Checking

Building Sense’s AI system is equipped with an automated building code-checking feature that instantly compares building plans against a comprehensive database of regulations. By automating code compliance checks, Building Sense reduces the review time from weeks to mere hours, allowing for rapid adjustments and approvals.

Consistency and Accuracy

The AI-driven system ensures a high level of consistency and accuracy in the review process. It eliminates the variability introduced by human error and interpretation differences (or misinterpretation of ordinances), providing a standardized approach to compliance that supports fair and unbiased assessments.

Conflict Detection and Resolution

Using detection algorithms and visual AI models, Building Sense’s AI analyzes building plans to identify potential spatial, structural, and functional conflicts. This preemptive detection allows architects and engineers to address issues in the concept phase, drastically reducing the risk of costly modifications during construction.

Enhancing Collaboration Through AI

Building Sense not only improves individual aspects of the building plan review process but also fosters a more collaborative environment. Project team members can view updates and comments from the project coordinator and/or project manager, while showing a history of updates to a building plan based on input from the subject matter experts. This ensures that stakeholders are aware of the potential issues and the proposed resolutions.

Real-Time Collaboration Tools

The AI system provides tools for real-time collaboration among various stakeholders, including architects, engineers, and compliance officials. This encourages a more dynamic exchange of ideas and feedback, speeding up the review process and improving the quality of the final plans.

Streamline

Building Sense is designed to learn continuously from each project, adapting and improving over time. This learning capability enables a flywheel effect to become more efficient and effective, anticipating common issues and suggesting required building plan items that may need special attention.

Building Sense is at the forefront of transformation in the building industry, by enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of building plan reviews. How do we know? We use our own tools and have gotten feedback from dozens of partners who have helped shape our product over time. Our automation of compliance checks, minimizing conflicts through predictive analysis, and collaboration, Building Sense not only accelerates the building process but also improves the overall quality and safety of constructions. As we move forward, the integration of AI in such applications promises to reshape the landscape of architectural design and construction management, making it smarter, faster, and more efficient.