Construction Hive™ is an online platform for the civil & construction industries, providing applications for the interaction of industry participants and the distribution and analysis of information.

The civil and construction industries are very dependent on the availability of reliable and timely information. This information is used in design, material selection, project management, quality control and maintenance of assets.

Information is sourced from many providers: architects, engineers, surveyors, material suppliers, testing laboratories and many more. The information is provided in many formats, sometimes hard copy, sometimes electronic, but only rarely in a format that allows for efficient storage, searching and analysis. This limitation represents a tremendous loss of opportunity to leverage the information to make better decisions, both during a project, and after construction, when maintaining an asset or deciding on future designs and materials.

Construction Hive™ overcomes this limitation by providing a platform where construction industry participants can share and analyse the information associated with construction projects.

The first application to be launched on Construction Hive™ is Documents, a solution for sharing and managing documents with minimal administration. The documents can be PDF files, Word/Excel documents or other file types. Documents has a sleek, simple design, incorporates an easy to use yet powerful searching capability and, most importantly, allows for the publishing of actual data in combination with a readable version of documents. This data is stored and searchable, viewable, and with future applications will be available for aggregated reporting, analysis, statistics and exporting.

The Construction Hive™ web site can be found here.

For a case study on how Construction Hive™ is successfully being used on the DFW connector project please follow this link.