Integrated Planning, Estimating and Analysis

Guide projects to desired outcomes using big data technology

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Building Catalyst is a powerful technology and knowledge resource for predictive modeling, decision making and process optimization – from planning through production.

Predictive Modeling

Catalyst predicts the project’s space program, site and building quantities, schedule and/or construction costs in real-time. It does so starting in the early planning, or at any point throughout the design and procurement stages. Catalyst does what BIM originally intended to do—serve as knowledge resource forming a reliable basis for decisions from project inception, onward.

High Definition Benchmarking
Catalyst provides more accurate, detailed benchmarking derived from the user’s completed real-world projects. It’s high definition because it originates at the most fundamental building blocks – the facility’s functions, and system elements.

Set-based Prototyping
Catalyst enables users to prototype multiple whole-buildings. Inspired by Toyota’s set-based design, Catalyst expands a user’s decision making ability to optimize the outcomes of the entire facility, rather than the sum of the parts.

Impartial Target Setting
Catalyst helps keep budgets and targets from being over or under valued. Impartial target setting also helps owners to consider more effective design and delivery methods and provides a means to assess value derived from them.

Purpose-driven Planning
Catalyst reports outcomes according to measures that are meaningful to the facility owner. These are measures of the facility purpose, which is composed of the departmental functions. Purpose-driven planning focuses on occupant success.

Target Tracking
As the level of development (LOD) progresses, Catalyst provides both statistical and comparative tracking of program, design and cost. This serves as an alert to potential drifting, as well as an early detection of variation from the approved target.

Comprehensive Measurement
The systems approach makes comprehensive measurement possible – both within and across a wide range of projects. Catalyst provides a comprehensive measurement approach that is essential for process improvement.

Enterprise Analysis
Catalyst provides in-depth analysis and comparison of the program/design efficiency, as well as cost effectiveness. It does this within the project (set by set) by comparing predicted to estimated/actual results. It also does so across a series of selected projects.

Resource Center
Catalyst includes a knowledge resource center that makes the most vital information readily accessible. This fosters the decision making processes by associating the quantitative data-driven information with the qualitative document/image information.

Continuous Improvement
The systems approach is needed to predict, steer and optimize outcomes, using current design and delivery methods. It is also needed to continue process improvement through more permanent and integrated design and production forms.

Available Building Types

Building Catalyst provides low cost, easy-to-learn, knowledge-based predictive modeling and analysis for a wide range of building types. The currently available building categories and types include:

Healthcare

K12 Education

Higher Education

Data Center

Commercial

Hospitality

Residential

Industrial

Government

Parking

Public Assembly/Activity

Private Assembly/Activity

Retail & Services

Most new building and space categories and types can be established and made available very fast on our end, given completed real-world project information from which to benchmark, on your end. Please contact us at info@buildingcatalyst.com for more information on this.