It’s Monday morning and, realistically, that first coffee is probably a top priority. But after that, an owner in New York needs an update on a data center in Phoenix, and a university expansion in Seattle. At the same time, a construction executive in Dallas wants to understand progress across three active projects spread across multiple states.
Traditionally that meant flights, hotels, rental cars, site walks, scheduling challenges, and a significant investment of time and money. Today, it means opening a laptop.
The “virtual trailer” is changing how owners and construction leaders stay connected to their projects. Instead of traveling from site to site, they can access detailed visual records, progress information, models, scans, videos, live webcams, and other project documentation from a centralized digital environment. This is exactly the type of visibility that modern construction photography, reality capture, and connected project information platforms are making possible.
The challenge of managing projects from a distance
Many owners oversee projects outside their immediate market. Likewise, general contractor executives and virtual design and construction (VDC) teams are often responsible for portfolios that span entire regions or even countries.
The problem is not a lack of information. It’s that information often lives in different systems, different reports, and different inboxes. Drawings are in one location, photos in another, drone data somewhere else, and progress reports buried in shared folders. When project data is fragmented, decision-making slows down, and errors can occur.
Bringing the jobsite to the decision maker
The virtual trailer – all the important data in one cloud-based location – flips the traditional oversight model on its head. Instead of bringing people to the project, it brings the project to the people.
Since 2003, Multivista, part of Hexagon, has been capturing jobsite photos and data, and making it accessible to project stakeholders on cloud-based digital floorplans. Owners, GCs, and other project stakeholders can view, comment on, and share as-built photo documentation, 360° imagery, 3D laser scanning, UAV/drone mapping, and webcam captures as often as they need, from wherever they are.
An owner can verify completed work before approving payments. A project executive can review milestone progress across multiple projects in a single morning. Subject matter experts can review actual jobsite images and scans to answer questions without spending a day traveling. Teams are no longer asking, “When can we get to site?” Instead, they’re asking, “Can we see it now?”
One login. One project view.
The real power of the virtual trailer emerges when all project information lives in a single environment. Building on the foundation of the Multivista Documentation System (MDS) platform, the recently launched Hexagon Multivista Hub serves as a single entry point for photo documentation, 360° imagery, drone and laser scan data, BIM deliverables, progress reporting, and deviation analysis, all together behind one login.
The Hexagon Multivista Hub was specifically designed to reduce fragmentation and create a centralized project environment where teams can quickly orient themselves and understand what’s happening across their projects. For owners and executives, this means less time searching for information and more time acting on it. Rather than juggling multiple vendors, portals, and credentials, they gain a single place to access project data and understand project status.
Visibility without the travel budget
Construction will always require people in the field, butnot every decision maker needs to board a plane or fight traffic to get to a jobsite in another region.
Multivista was founded with the goal of enabling remote jobsite management and project transparency. Servicing more than 65 markets around the world, Multivista’s reality capture technicians have documented more than 70,000 projects, and the MDS has helped hundreds of thousands of individual users review their project conditions and data from anywhere.
The result of that level of remote connectivity isn’t simply cost and time savings;it’s better awareness. Projects move quickly and important decisions cannot always wait for the next site visit. The virtual trailer provides near-immediate access to what is happening on site, helping stakeholders identify issues sooner, respond faster, and stay aligned throughout construction.
The future of project oversight
The construction trailer isn’t disappearing. It remains the operational hub of the jobsite.
But for owners, executives, and dispersed project teams, a virtual trailer is emerging. Whether the goal is validating progress, reviewing documentation, accessing models, monitoring risk, or simply staying informed, the virtual trailer gives project leaders the visibility they need without ever needing to put their coffee in a travel cup.
Reach out for a personalized demo to learn how Multivista can help your teams get interactive project visibility from wherever they happen to be.