As AECO organizations explore AI and more advanced digital workflows, the prerequisite is becoming clearer: Project data must be easier to access, govern, and connect before it can support better decisions. A 2025 RICS report highlights that need, and Hexagon Multivista's 2025 figures show the scale of information now being created by its own customers: 15,525,207 photos and 384,279 scans captured in a single year.
More project data has not made construction easier to manage on its own. While teams are capturing more information than ever, that information often lives across too many tools, folders, reports, and workflows.
For many project leaders, the issue is not whether the data exists, but whether the right people know it exists and can access, understand, and use it quickly enough to make a timely decision. As construction teams collect more project data, the real opportunity is not adding more tools or records, but reducing decision friction and turning fragmented project information into relevant, contextual construction intelligence.
A VDC team may need context before coordinating with design partners, while an operations leader may want visibility across projects that use different documentation, updates, and systems. The project may be documented in detail, but when the path from information to action is fragmented, work slows down.
The Problem Is Not Data Volume; It Is Decision Friction
For contractors and owners, disconnected data can affect how quickly teams respond to field conditions, align stakeholders, manage risk, and keep work moving. When project information is difficult to find, access, or interpret, teams may spend valuable time confirming what is true before they can decide what to do next, which is why the conversation is shifting from more data to better project intelligence.
For project teams, that friction can look like this:
- Project records may not be easy to access from one place, even when teams spend significant time collecting photos, scans, reports, and models.
- Office teams may lack current project context, while field teams may not always receive direction that reflects what is happening on site.
- Coordination can become harder when VDC, operations, and project delivery leaders rely on different workflows, access levels, and tool owners to solve the same project challenges.
- Technology investments can improve visibility, but as platforms, vendors, and entry points multiply, they can also introduce additional complexity.
Project intelligence is not simply a larger archive of photos, scans, reports, or models. It is the ability to bring project information into a more connected, contextual experience, so teams can reduce the distance between what is happening on site and what needs to happen next.
From Project Information to Construction Intelligence
Solutions like Hexagon Multivista Hub reflect this shift toward more connected, contextual project information. The hub brings project data into one experience, starting with centralized access to Hexagon Multivista Capture service projects and a simpler way to find and navigate project information. As it expands, the hub will bring additional workflows, Analyze service capabilities, and AI-powered ways to search and interact with data, including agent-based workflows that could help teams ask questions about their project information.
The value lies not in replacing the expertise of project teams, but in making the information around them easier to access, understand, and apply. When teams can find the right project context faster, they can spend less time chasing access, context information, and confirmation, and more time resolving issues that affect schedule, quality, and coordination. That shift also supports better communication between the office and the field, because when an office-based leader can review available project information, understand current conditions, and align with the team on the next step, field teams can benefit from clearer direction grounded in shared project context. Instead of each stakeholder working from a different slice of the truth, teams can move toward a more consistent source of project context.
For many AECO companies, that is the practical value of connected construction workflows. Not technology for its own sake, and not an overwhelming amount of disconnected project data, but relevant information that helps teams move from uncertainty to action.
As projects become more complex, the differentiator will be how easily teams can turn data into shared understanding. More data is not the same as better decisions, but when project information becomes easier to access, navigate, and use, that data can become something more valuable: construction intelligence that keeps work moving.
Learn how Hexagon Multivista Hub helps teams reduce fragmentation and access project information from a more connected experience.
