Breaking down construction silos

With Stoa

RFIs

A typical request for information is either answered outright or drafted for you in minutes, out of the drawings and specifications that already hold the answer.

Staying ahead of the schedule

Timeline conflicts, what happens next, and whether everything the next step needs is actually in place, answered from the live project record instead of waiting for the next coordination meeting.

Claims

Claims are found five times more easily, and the full picture assembles rapidly, because everything standing behind it, the drawings, the correspondence, the schedule and the site records, is already in one place.

With Stoa

Conflicts

Stoa flags conflicts between the owner's requirements and the designs before they reach the site, rather than after a trade has built to the wrong one.

Revisions

On one commercial building site, supervisors filtered the revision feed in two clicks down to only the changes that touched their own trade. Always knowing what the designers had just changed prevented more than ten mistakes.

Costs

On a hotel project, the owner's representative went into plumbing-fixture costs and found duplicate toilet and fixture specifications worth over €60,000, after thirty minutes of digging with Stoa.

With Stoa

Buyer-specific specifications

Where every buyer wants their own specification, Stoa writes a room card for each room in seconds from a couple of prompts, so the installer walks in already holding what that room needs.

Procurement

Stoa assembles a quote package end to end. For floor insulation it identifies the material, derives how much insulation is needed per square metre, finds the building's area from the layouts, and calculates the number of sheets.

Margins

Site managers compare costs across their own sites, find out why one is cheaper than another, and act on it before the next phase is priced.

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Project memory

On a programme that runs for years, almost nobody still on site was there when it was agreed. Stoa surfaces the decision immediately, whether a design ruling, an environmental stipulation or a contract memo, with the document behind it.

Onboarding

People join continuously, and Stoa removes the long ramp-up that normally has to happen before anyone can contribute: they ask the project rather than learning how it was filed.

Document volume

Dozens of geotechnical reports that all have to be taken into account become searchable and cited, instead of a shelf somebody has to work through before they can answer.

With Stoa

Getting to know the building

Just as it has become easier to learn a city you have never visited, Stoa lets you learn a building you are about to renovate, on a level the drawings alone never gave you.

Scanned and hand-marked material

Stoa reads scanned drawings and marked-up paper, so the old buildings that have traditionally been almost impossible to get information out of become queryable like any other project.

Quoting

Because the building is understood before the work starts, quoting, deciding and acting all happen far faster, and on what the building actually is rather than on what the survey had time to cover.