Planning

Where success is won — or lost

Data shows planning gaps are the #1 driver of rework, overruns, and lost bids.

Collaborative, real-time planning:
Resolve conflicts before work starts.

Accurate estimates protect margin and help win more bids.

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Collaborative, real-time planning: Resolve conflicts before work starts.

35-40%

12%

of project costs lost to rework

Multi-player 4D/5D planning let’s all stakeholders resolve conflicts early.

Rework

40%

of safety incidents linked to overlaps in equipment/crew access drive hazards.

ToBe enforces sequencing + access constraints proactively simulating risk in context.

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70%

still on Excel

Cats look and feel familiar but eliminates hidden formula errors.

78%

Estimators Over Capacity

Cats automates repetitive tasks so scarce talent can focus on winning bids.

30%

of Overruns Trace to Estimates

Cats’ integrated takeoff + scenarios protect profitability.

35%

of Time Lost Searching for Data

Cats integrates with PM + accounting tools for seamless data flow.

Better estimates feed better plans — and together, they set up smoother execution.

Introducing ToBe Builder

a planning and collaboration tool that integrates 3D, 4D and 5D technologies providing a common work environment to visually simulate multiple virtual construction options

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Integrated Planning Environment

Integrated Planning Environment

ToBe Builder™ combines GIS, BIM, scheduling, and resource data into a unified digital workspace for construction planning.

Scenario Simulation

Scenario Simulation

Enables simulation of multiple construction scenarios, allowing teams to foresee issues and optimize workflows.

Improved Collaboration

Improved Collaboration

Enhances stakeholder communication and alignment by visualizing options and supporting data-driven decisions pre-construction.

Pre-Construction Optimization

Pre-Construction Optimization

Reduces rework and ensures constructable plans aligned with project goals by enabling detailed planning before physical work.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality

Uses AR to overlay 4D digital designs onto real construction sites via mobile devices, enhancing visualization.

Enhanced Site Understanding

Enhanced Site Understanding

Allows stakeholders to view full-scale BIM models with scheduling and animated resource data for better site insight.

Improved Collaboration and Safety

Improved Collaboration and Safety

Helps identify spatial conflicts, improve safety, and increase engagement among project participants during coordination and presentations.

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ToBe Builder Enhances Infrastructure Project Success

ToBe Builder is a decisive risk moderator for infrastructure projects. By simulating construction of the design from the early stages of a project, ToBe Builder enables key technical, logistical, commercial and program risks to be flushed out and transformed into controlled opportunities. ToBe Builder simplifies and improves communication between the design and construction teams... enhancing our clients and stakeholders’ confidence in our capability to deliver.

Sam Chaud, Associate Principal – Structures
EIC Activities (Suburban Rail Link)

Introducing Cats Estimating

multi-user estimating application that takes a tender through estimating process through final submission

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Multi-user

Multi-user

Multiple estimators can be reviewing an editing the same tender at the same time.

Integrated Digital Takeoff

Integrated Digital Takeoff

Eliminate transposition errors and speed up takeoff process.

Automatically prepares bid documents

Automatically prepares bid documents

Bid proposals, estimate submissions and bid comparisons.

Built-In Audit Trail

Built-In Audit Trail

Know who changed data and when.

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Elevate Estimation Efficiency

Cats is a true multiuser estimating system that allows real time analytics of live tenders. The pragmatic and solid security settings are industry leading. They are designed for what Estimating Managers want.

Richard Scott, Group General Manager
John Holland Group