By digitizing and automating on-site validation, we can reduce risk in construction

How do you know that everything on your construction project has been built correctly? For most large projects, the truth is that you probably don’t. Teams typically spot check 5-10% of the work manually and extrapolate from there, which helps to explain by 5-10% of project costs are usually allocated toward managing risk and accommodating change orders. Scaled Robotics has created a platform that can take laser-scanned data of your construction site and compare it against your BIM model in real time to show what’s complete, what’s missing, and, mostly importantly, what’s out of tolerance. Founder and CEO Stuart Maggs explains how, by digitizing and automating your construction validation process, you can get insight that enables you to make better decisions in hours or days, rather than weeks or months, and apply learnings from every project you’ve ever done to every project you’ll take on in the future.

About the speaker

Stuart Maggs is the CEO of Scaled Robotics. An architect and designer, Maggs has extensive experience in introducing digital tools to construction, and previously worked as the lead architect at External Reference Architects. Maggs is also a visiting lecturer at the UCL Graduate Program, IAAC, Stanford, and ETHZ.

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