Austin Commercial Boosts Data Power with Versatile Partnership

Austin Commercial, a member of multiple AGC chapters, recently announced an enterprise agreement with Versatile®, a construction technology pioneer using artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) to optimize construction processes. Versatile’s CraneView®, which automatically collects and analyzes productivity data from construction jobsites, is the first solution of its kind to be used by a Texas-based general contractor.

Learning from daily performance data and time-on-hook metrics, Austin Commercial superintendents identified impactful job site patterns, enabling them to streamline their hoisting process. By capturing actual production data from their sites, allowing them to automatically measure performance, Austin Commercial is looking ahead to the advantages this will enable across their projects.

“Austin Commercial is always looking for ways to help us better serve our tradespeople and our clients. Introducing visual and analytical data capture to our projects augments our on-site operational practices to accomplish our objectives with a greater level of success,” says Todd Harper, director of construction technology, Austin Commercial. “CraneView helped us discern patterns and gave us unique, real-time insights on activities that maximized efficiency in our planning efforts, streamlined our overall hoisting process and improved our project execution.”

Austin Commercial most recently used CraneView while constructing the University of Houston Law Center's new John M. O'Quinn Law Building. Over the course of the project, the amount of daily crane picks increased by 53% and daily crane time increased 28%, creating new efficiencies within the timeline. The new building is expected to open in the fall of 2022.

Headquartered in Los Altos, California, Versatile creates technology that gives construction professionals unmatched visibility into their production rates. By delivering the right data to the right people at the right time while naturally fitting existing processes, a fragmented industry becomes a controllable manufacturing process. The result? Increased productivity, predictability and safety with the insights needed to manage and bid on future projects more competitively. Visit: www.versatile.ai for more information.

Austin Commercial is one of the largest, most diversified builders in the United States, nationally recognized for its exceptional safety records, diversity inclusion program and innovative construction solutions in the following markets: advanced technology, aviation, corporate/office, healthcare, hospitality, mission-critical, mixed-use/retail/residential, public assembly and sports, and university. Find out more about our regional offices in Texas, Florida, and California at www.austin-ind.com.