Dive Brief:

• There are now companies offering online platforms that allow construction teams comprising various disciplines to pull their work together and produce a package that shows construction needs, progress, and material supplies.
• Bentley Systems has one of the offerings, called ProjectWise, which is targeted to infrastructure projects and blends information from architecture, engineering, construction, and operations. Aveva, another platform, offers plant-management software that can create visual illustrations of materials status and their availability.
• Another vendor is Intergraph, which says its SmartPlanet Foundation platform integrates and offers access to "plant information, including engineering designs, vendor data, purchase orders, RFQs, specification sheets, and all ancillary documents."

Dive Insight:

The Intergraph and Aveva applications are geared toward plant management, though that can include construction at facilities.The Bentley platform has more of a focus on design and construction, though operations can be integrated.