Even amongst a data-fueled construction boom, the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) industries continue to see a growing disconnect between digital ambition and what’s actually happening on the ground at job sites.
According to recent information published by Revizto, a leading AECO collaboration platform provider, the majority of projects continue to see a widening gap between strategy set in the boardroom and execution on the project site. Based on insights from over 2,000 AEC professionals around the globe, the report identified “project complexity and coordination” and “technological integration and adoption” as the two biggest reported challenges ahead.
“The story of construction in 2026 is not stagnation, but uneven progress,” said Arman Gukasyan, Founder and CEO of Revizto. “This report shows that leaders and their teams understand what needs to change, but knowing what to do and having the infrastructure to actually do it are two different things. Coordination is where projects succeed or fail. Right now, too many teams are running sophisticated digital strategies on top of fragmented workflows. Until that gap closes, overruns, rework, and delays will remain the norm, not the exception. Without solving coordination at scale, more technology alone will not fix project outcomes.”
Construction reality capture and the future of collaboration
When it comes to project coordination and complexity, the teams at Multivista have long thought: You can’t manage what you can’t see. Since 2003, Multivista specialists have come onto jobsites to capture existing project conditions on a set schedule or just before key milestones such as slab pour and cover-up. The data captured – digital photos in the past, but now 3D laser scans, UAV photogrammetry, video, 360º photos and more – is tied to the project’s floorplans and uploaded to a cloud-based platform for any project stakeholder to review, annotate, and easily share.
The capture technology and the workflows that data empowers have changed since 2003. In recent years,automated deviation analysis tools and progress tracking have been changing how work is completed. Still, the core concept of full-team visibility and collaboration from a single, accurate source of truth remains the same.
“Multivista helped improve the efficiency of project team members and provided peace of mind,” says Matt Massey, Head of Project Management at Derwent London. “Allowing all companies involved in the project delivery access to this Multivista information provided complete transparency & positively impacted the effectiveness of the delivery teams.”
White-glove construction technology and full-service solutions
The construction industry is speeding up: timelines are tighter, projects are increasingly complex, and skilled workers are in shorter supply each year. Understandably, many project teams don’t have the time or resources to put a lot of sustained effort into technological integration and adoption – the number one listed issue on the Revizto study.
Too often, a team will buy a piece of equipment and some software only to watch their reality capture frequency dwindle as time passes and project team members get busier – everyone on site has other work to do, and soon, the gear is sitting in a drawer somewhere while important project data goes uncaptured.
With Multivista’s full-service solutions, trained specialists come on site to capture the right data at the right time and take care of all the uploading and processing, so the people working on building the project can focus on just that.
“With trained, experienced professional documentation specialists, Multivista captures detailed and precise jobsite information that provides optimal value for problem-solving around design or owner changes, as well as error detection and issue resolution,” says Jake Reed, a project manager with Matthews Southwest. “What used to take days of coordination is now just a meeting invite and a link away.”
Integrated solutions for the full project lifecycle
Clean, consistent as-built reality capture data and a single source of project truth do help alleviate some of the pain points involved with construction technology adoption and coordination, but reality capture is only one part of the story. To fully benefit from construction technology, project teams need to fully connect the physical reality of their jobsites to the digital asset creation, BIM transformation, and automated construction analysis workflows that benefit everyone.
Data-driven, end-to-end asset lifecycle management starts with reality capture, but as part of Hexagon Multivista Capture, Create, Analyze services, Multivista helps bridge the physical and digital gap that so many construction firms have yet to fully get a handle on.
To learn more about how Multivista can capture your project data captured cleanly and make that data work for you, schedule a demo.
