As AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations) organizations explore AI and more advanced digital workflows, a prerequisite is becoming increasingly clear: project data must first become more accessible, governed, and connected to support better decision-making.The 2025 RICS reporthighlights this need, while Hexagon Multivista's 2025 data shows the scale of information its clients generate in a single year: 15,525,207 photos and 384,279 scans.

More project data alone hasn't made construction management simpler. Although teams capture more information than ever before, it is often scattered across too many tools, folders, reports, and workflows, making it difficult to create synergy.

For many project leaders, the issue isn't whether data exists, but whether the right people know it exists and can quickly access, understand, and use it when needed to make timely decisions. As construction teams collect more and more data, the real opportunity lies not in adding more tools or records, but in reducing decision friction and transforming fragmented project information into relevant, contextualized construction intelligence.

For example, VDC (Virtual Design and Construction) teams may need background information before coordinating with design partners; operations leaders may want visibility across projects that might use different documents, updates, and systems. A project may be thoroughly documented, but when the path from information to action is fragmented, work slows down.

The problem isn't data volume, it's decision friction

For contractors and owners, data silos affect the speed at which teams can respond to site conditions, coordinate stakeholders, manage risk, and keep work moving forward. When project information is difficult to find, access, or interpret, teams may spend valuable time confirming facts before deciding on next steps—which is why the conversation is shifting from "more data" to "better project intelligence."

For project teams, this friction can manifest in several ways:

  • Even when teams invest significant time collecting photos, scans, reports, and models, project records remain difficult to access from a single, unified entry point.
  • Office teams may lack current project context, while field teams may not always receive instructions that reflect actual site conditions.
  • When VDC, operations, and project delivery leaders rely on different workflows, access levels, and tool owners to solve the same project challenges, coordination becomes more difficult.
  • Technology investments are meant to improve visibility, but as platforms, vendors, and portals multiply, they can also introduce additional complexity.

Project intelligence isn't just a larger archive of photos, scans, reports, or models. It's about integrating project information into a more connected, contextual experience that shortens the distance between "what's happening on site" and "what needs to be done next."

From project information to construction intelligence

Solutions like Hexagon Multivista Hub exemplify this shift toward more connected, contextual project information. The Hub consolidates project data into a unified experience, starting with centralized access to Hexagon Multivista Capture service projects and providing easier ways to find and navigate project information. As it expands, the Hub will introduce more workflows, Analyze service capabilities, and AI-based search and data interaction methods, including agentic workflows that may help teams ask questions about project information.

Its value isn't in replacing project teams' expertise, but in making the information around them more accessible, understandable, and usable. When teams can find the right project context faster, they can spend less time on access permissions and context confirmation, and more effort on solving issues that impact schedule, quality, and coordination. This shift also helps improve communication between the office and the field—when office leaders can review available project information, understand current conditions, and align with teams on next steps, field teams receive clearer instructions based on shared project context. This way, stakeholders no longer work from different "pieces of the truth," but gradually move toward a more consistent source of project context.

For many AECO companies, this is the real value of connected construction workflows: not technology for technology's sake, nor piling up massive amounts of siloed data, but providing relevant information that helps teams move from uncertainty to action.

As projects become increasingly complex, the differentiator will lie in how easily teams can turn data into shared understanding. More data doesn't equal better decisions, but when project information becomes more accessible, navigable, and usable, that data can transform into something more valuable: construction intelligence that keeps work moving forward.

Learn how Hexagon Multivista Hub helps teams reduce fragmentation and access project information through a more connected experience.