In construction, doing an early stage feasibility assessment is—of course—an absolutely critical first step. That’s why it’s so surprising that it’s often still such a manual, time-consuming process. Compared to how things are done in other industries, it seems of a different era. 

During an early stage feasibility assessment, a builder will typically engage an architectural office to develop a few different building plan options. After that, the builder will choose one or two to develop in more detail. 

In the previous article we gave you an introduction to machine learning in construction, and we mentioned that machine learning can be broken into two broad categories: supervised learning and unsupervised learning. While supervised learning has an output or response variable that analysts are focused on (for example, a cost performance metric), unsupervised learning relies on having no response variable – the objective is to simply explore the data available.

We're delighted to announce the acquisition of Lifecycle Technology Ltd, a global technology and consulting firm, based in the UK, that focuses on delivering information management solutions to the engineering, construction and asset intensive industries. The acquisition will strengthen our deep digital capabilities and offerings to the capital projects market.

Machine learning is an exciting concept in the construction industry. To us at Enstoa, where we specialize in finding meaning in construction project data, machine learning helps improve processes and project outcomes.

By applying machine learning techniques to the project record, we can improve our understanding of performance trends, identify areas of opportunity for continuous improvement initiatives, and make better decisions faster by leveraging our data as a decision support system.

We are proud to be sponsoring the Oracle Utilities summit in Chicago. If you are planning to attend the event, be sure to meet with Enstoa's team! 

The Oracle Utilities Summit is an exclusive event, designed just for utilities experts. This edition of the event is all the more special: it will be the first where the East and West region are joined into one broad event. 

Our groundbreaking methodology in feasibility assessments has been featured on Construction Executive, in an article authored by Director Mark Thorley.

The article, titled 'The Next Generation of Early Stage Feasibility Assessments for Cloud-based Generative Design' describes the thinking behind our latest development, a tool that can automatically generate the best fitting building designs for the users' design goals for a given plot of land.

We recommend you to start saving money on paper or learning origami because document-centred capital projects have become obsolete.

Michael Matthews, Vice President of Strategy and Consulting, analyses what issues come from lack of information between stakeholders and different and disorganised manual transfer of data.

Enstoa is excited to participate in the upcoming Autodesk University Las Vegas 2018 event. If you are planning to attend, make sure to meet with Enstoa's team!

Autodesk University Las Vegas 2018 brings together industry leaders to solve design and engineering challenges and help the teams increase efficiency, reach new markets, and win more business. 

Enstoa, Inc., the leading systems integrator for capital projects worldwide, today announced it has been selected by the Qiddiya Investment Company (QIC) to provide a fully integrated program management information system for the Qiddiya project – set to become the epicenter of entertainment, sports, culture and the arts in Saudi Arabia. Enstoa is currently recruiting talented Saudi nationals passionate about technology and effectuating change, with a background in digital transformations, to support the project.