How a US Government Agency Accelerated Building Plan Reviews from Hours to Minutes
Client
The client is a U.S. government regulatory body responsible for reviewing building construction plans to ensure compliance with municipal and safety codes across residential and commercial projects.
Project Context
The client was reviewing building plans manually and verified if it’s as per defined norms. They needed a solution that could help them reduce manual verification and automate the review process.
Project Objectives
Reduce the building plan review efforts.
Automate the manual verification process and keep it as per norms.
Challenges
The client was reviewing building plans manually and verified if it’s as per defined norms.
They needed a solution that could help them reduce manual verification and automate the review process.
Solution
SquareShift built an application that scans building plans as input and used computer vision to extract specs.
We also built rules engines to compare data and provided it in a dashboard to view the final report.
Solution Delivery
SquareShift built an application that could scan and extract data using computer vision. With just the image, one could identify the exact locations in a building. Used Computer Vision & ML to extract plan specs and generate key insights.
SquareShift built a rules engine to compare specs with master specifications and verify the specifications.
Built and sent notifications so that reviewers can see the summary of all the elements in the building plan that meet specification.
SquareShift also provided a dashboard with the final review report.
Testimonial
SquareShift’s automated plan review system transformed our approval process. What used to take hours now takes minutes.
