A little help? The specifications for a major construction project can be over a thousand pages. Pype’s AI-based software aims to automate the review of specs and change the workflow of construction. (Picture courtesy of LinkedIn )
Autodesk has announced its plans to acquire Pype, a DC-area based startup that has created AI-based software to manage spec books and submittals, documents common to the construction industry. Submittals are composed of shop drawings, cut sheets and other data, in paper or digital form, and are shared between engineers, architects, contractors and architects.
Pypes main products, from what we can gather on their website, are:
- AutoSpecs, which creates a draft submittal by reading specs, including action submittals, product data, closeout submittals, tests & inspections, and more.
- CloseOut provides a portal for collecting closeout documents and compiles a “digital turnover package.”
- eBinder will take the turnover documentation and make it “dynamic” PDFs
- SmartPlans, introduced just this January, seems to semi-automate getting the information from PDF drawings into submittals and schedules. For example, you can select an area of a document with a product and equipment schedules, and SmarPlans will directly send it to Excel or several BIM applications, including Autodesk BIM360.
“Tackling unstructured data in construction drawings was a major challenge for our engineering and data science teams,” said…