Construction teams are under growing pressure to prove progress, defend decisions, and identify issues early while managing tighter schedules and less room for error. Yet many projects still rely on manual tracking, subjective reporting, and reactive problem-solving to understand how work is progressing in the field.
That gap becomes costly fast. When progress and quality are assessed visually or anecdotally, issues are often discovered too late, after downstream trades are impacted, rework is required, or schedule recovery becomes difficult. As Cathi Hayes, VP Go-to-Market, Hexagon Multivista, puts it, “Objective, -driven construction analysis is no longer optional; it is what ensures successful outcomes.”
That is the role of Hexagon Multivista Analyze services. These services turn reality capture and model data into objective construction insight that helps teams see what is happening, not just what they hope.
The first article in this series positioned Create services as the bridge from physical reality to usable digital deliverables. The second showed how Capture services establish trusted site context. Analyze services bring those inputs together to support better decisions while construction is still underway. Hexagon Multivista Analyze offering includes building progress reporting, deviation analysis, and earthwork progress reporting; all delivered as part of a unified service portfolio.
Introducing Hexagon Multivista Analyze services
Analyze services are designed for AECO stakeholders who need defensible, repeatable insight into progress, quality, and site performance.
- For owners, it means independent verification of progress and quality.
- For general contractors, it means better visibility into schedule performance, risk, and pay application support.
- For project executives, it means clearer reporting and earlier warning signs.
- For quality teams, it means better insight into tolerance compliance and installation accuracy.
- For schedulers, it means more objective confirmation that work is progressing as planned.
As Cathi explains, “Analyze services provide objective, third-party insight into construction progress, installation accuracy, and site performance – grounded in reality capture and aligned to construction execution.”
That is the key distinction. Analyze does not simply document conditions. It transforms captured reality and models into analysis teams can use to act sooner and with more confidence.
Why Hexagon unified these three services
Across the industry, construction analysis has often been fragmented. It may be performed manually, delivered inconsistently, or separated from the capture data it depends on. That fragmentation makes it harder for teams to trust results, defend decisions, or act early enough to reduce risk.
Capture, Create, Analyze is designed to remove that friction. By bringing building progress reporting, deviation analysis, earthwork progress reporting, and Capture services together within one organization, Hexagon Multivista gives customers a more consistent, repeatable approach to construction analysis. Customers can start with documentation and add analysis only when the project requires it, without changing vendors or rebuilding workflows. The result is a clearer connection between Capture services, Create services, and Analyze outcomes.
What Analyze services deliver
Analyze services support different workflows, but they all serve the same purpose: helping teams move from visibility to defensible insight while work is still in progress.
Building progress reporting
Building progress reporting converts 360° photo documentation and 3D laser scans into objective progress insight by comparing installed work against constructability models and construction schedules. It helps teams track progress by floor or trade using reality capture data, proprietary technology, and expert review to deliver accurate, repeatable reporting.
That gives teams a more consistent way to understand what is built, where it is built, and how that compares to the plan. Instead of relying on manual updates or status meetings alone, teams gain visual, area-based, and trade-level progress reporting that can support schedule reviews, pay applications, and earlier intervention when performance starts to drift.
Deviation analysis
Deviation analysis compares laser scan point clouds to constructability models during construction to identify deviations outside tolerance and highlight areas that may create downstream clash risk. It is an AI-driven model-to-scan comparison that detects construction deviations and risks while also recording final field deviations to support accurate as-built updates.
This is especially valuable because it shifts quality control earlier. Rather than discovering installation issues after follow-on trades are affected, teams can detect problems while corrective action is still practical. That reduces rework, limits schedule impacts, and provides better documentation when field conditions differ from the original model in acceptable ways.
Earthwork progress reporting
Earthwork progress reporting uses UAV capture to deliver objective insight into grading progress and earthwork quantities on large or site-intensive projects. This service uses UAV technology to analyze cut and fill volumes and produce detailed, transparent reporting for more efficient management.
For teams managing large sites, that means better cut and fill visibility, more repeatable progress reporting, and stronger documentation for payment validation and decision-making. Replacing manual estimates with data-driven reporting gives teams more confidence in what has been moved, what remains, and where execution may be diverging from plan.
Analyze as a natural extension of Capture and Create
Analyze does not stand alone. It builds on Capture and Create services, using trusted field documentation and model data to generate more useful construction insight. Projects often begin with site or interior progress documentation, then expand into analysis when teams need more objective ways to manage risk, validate progress, or verify quality.
As Cathi states, “This approach allows teams to start with documentation and expand into construction analysis only when the project demands it.”
That flexibility matters because Hexagon Multivista gives customers the ability to right-size construction insight from the start – ranging from organized photo documentation for basic progress needs, to model-based progress tracking with 360° imagery, to laser-scan-driven deviation analysis for mission-critical projects. Teams can choose the level of rigor they need based on complexity, tolerance, and risk, not vendor constraints.
A team may begin with 360° photo documentation, then add building progress reporting. Another may start with laser scanning, then add deviation analysis and use the output later for as-built updates. A site-heavy project may begin with UAV capture, then move into earthwork progress reporting. In every case, Analyze becomes more valuable because it is grounded in the same reality-based workflows that support the rest of the Hexagon Multivista portfolio.
Conclusion
Analyze services help teams move beyond subjective reporting and reactive problem-solving. By grounding decisions in objective, reality-based analysis, teams gain earlier insight, stronger documentation, and better control over construction risk.
That is the real value of Analyze in the AECO lifecycle. It helps teams understand progress more clearly, verify quality sooner, and take action while there is still time to make a difference.
Ready to see how Analyze services can support your project? Book a free 30-minute consultation with our team to discuss building progress reporting, deviation analysis, and earthwork progress reporting, and how they can build on your existing Capture workflows.