Danya Cebus gets instant benefits and high ROI from digital construction platform
Danya Cebus specializes in executing large complex infrastructure projects for public customers, including paving roads, building railway infrastructure, bridge construction and related infrastructure development.
Main benefits
Improved visibility and monitoring of constantly changing sites
Up-to-date insights that could be easily shared amongst stakeholders
Significant time savings
Digital transformation without business disruption
As a general contractor that is all too familiar with the inherent challenges of complex infrastructure projects, Danya Cebus was seeking an end-to-end digitalization solution that would seamlessly plug into its projects and processes and extract meaningful project execution metrics from field data.
Besides improving visibility and monitoring constantly changing construction sites, the company required up-to-date, relevant insights that could be easily shared amongst all stakeholders.
Tanya Velichko
Project Manager at Danya Cebus
DatuBIM and managed services deliver actionable insights in record time
Danya Cebus found its partner in Datumate. DatuBIM construction data analyticsConstruction data analytics involves using data to gain insights and make informed decisions related to construction pro… More platform, along with Datumate managed services, guaranteed quick implementation and outstanding results.
DatuBIM delivered huge time savings for Danya Cebus’ highway intersection construction project, through fast turnaround of the initial digital twinA digital twin is a virtual replica or simulation of a physical object, process, or system. It is a digital model that r… More of the “ground zero” site, consecutive digital twins, and automatic analyses and reports.
Comparison table - field data acquisition and analytics
Datumate’s team of professional engineers verified that the DatuBIM-generated digital twinA digital twin is a virtual replica or simulation of a physical object, process, or system. It is a digital model that r… More met survey-grade accuracy standards. With continuously updated as-built“As-built” refers to the final and accurate documentation of a completed construction project or engineering design. It … More digital twins of their construction site, Danya Cebus was set to leverage digital monitoring to improve project management and quality assurance.
| Conventional | DatuBIM | |
|---|---|---|
| First digital twin for "ground zero" (first survey and model generation) | 6 weeks | 1 day |
| Consecutive digital twin (follow-up surveys and model generation) | 2 weeks | 1 day |
| Analytics and reports e.g. comparison to design and previous as-built | Up to 3 days to report delivery | Instant, automatic reports |
The project: monitoring buildup progress of a highway intersection with bridge
Road 6 is the only toll highway in Israel and one the largest and most complex infrastructure projects in the country to date. Danya Cebus was awarded the project of building the new Meitar intersection, complete with a bridge, on the southern part of the highway.
The new intersection stretches over an area of 0.65 km2. With a building plan spanning 24 months, Danya Cebus chose to update the data set in DatuBIM on a monthly base, via drone flights which each captured roughly 2600 images.
Using DatuBIM, Danya Cebus easily ran automated reports and analytics with just a few clicks of a mouse.
These reports include and enable:
- Monitoring of layer construction progress
- Ensuring that work is limited solely to permitted areas
- Comparison of progress and milestone completion to design and schedules
- Cross-section analyses
- Earthwork tracking based on material quantity calculations
- Volume calculations to enable precise payment for earthwork execution
DatuBIM prevents a 2-week project delay
The outstanding value delivered by DatuBIM is amply demonstrated by the way it enables faster and better decision-making, especially when a project heads into a delay. In the course of the project, a traffic detour was needed in order to proceed to the next phase. Traffic administration approval was granted and an inspection date was set for just a few days away. As it turned out, however, the connecting roads were at different levels from those planned in the design, preventing the detour from opening.
Traditionally, Danya Cebus would have sent out surveyors to gather data that the engineer needed to create a new detour design. In addition to causing disruptive traffic closures, this would have put the project on hold for about 2 weeks, generating additional costs exceeding $80,000.
When this problem arose, Danya Cebus turned to DatuBIM to immediately retrieve the necessary data at no additional costs and receive a new plan in record time.
Taking the headache out of earthwork tracking
Material tracking was core execution metric for Danya Cebus project progress monitoring. DatuBIM enables automatic volume calculations and change tracing based on new sets of data from each drone flight.
Cut-and-fills can be easily tracked over time and in different formats.
DatuBIM managed services
Danya Cebus teams expected to receive reports in the familiar formats they’d seen for countless years. So DatuBIM Managed Services created customized reports that were signed off on by a certified surveyor and seamlessly aligned with company business processes, including Road Layer Buildup Reports and Delta Elevation Analyses.
DatuBIM: at the project core and beyond
Delivered as a secure cloud solution, DatuBIM enabled Danya Cebus project managers to access as-built“As-built” refers to the final and accurate documentation of a completed construction project or engineering design. It … More digital twins of the construction site anytime, anywhere. In addition, the solution made it easy to share insights, and drive alignment, accountability and awareness across all teams and stakeholders.
With DatuBIM, Danya Cebus enjoyed direct labor savings across all teams, including land surveyors, construction supervisors, budget controllers, quality controllers, execution engineers, schedule managers and project managers.
Yet, the benefits of a digitalized site reach far beyond the execution phase. Availability of project history, including continuous and full digital project documentation, is highly valuable for settling disputes such as exception work claims. This documentation is also a highly sought-after part of the final handover, as it proves valuable information for the operation and maintenance phase.
Based on its clear organizational value, benefits and ROI, Danya Cebus has chosen to implement DatuBIM in many more of its construction projects.