Buildots announced on October 28, 2026, that NCC’s Building Nordics business, which builds in Denmark, Finland and Norway, has signed a master services agreement naming Buildots a preferred supplier. Buildots sells AI progress tracking. The software compares what was installed on site with the 3D model and the schedule. The agreement follows several years of NCC projects in Finland and Denmark, and it affects the weekly progress check and the trade planning meeting that depends on it.
What it does
On most jobs, a superintendent or project engineer collects progress by walking the floors and asking each trade where it stands. Before Buildots, NCC says in its case study, project managers judged progress from manual, subjective reports collected from third parties.
With Buildots, a site team member walks the job wearing a 360-degree camera. Computer vision, software that recognizes objects in images, matches each captured element to the 3D model. Buildots then compares that status with the schedule and reports progress by trade and by area. NCC’s teams used a matrix view that showed, floor by floor and zone by zone, the percent complete for activities such as HVAC pipes, cable tray and first-fix plumbing.
The output goes into the weekly trade meeting. In one example from the case study, Buildots counted 45 climate beam units still uninstalled out of 150 expected by that date, while the trade’s own report said only a few were left. On another NCC job, the data showed HVAC work running slower than planned, and the project manager and HVAC subcontractor agreed to add labor.
Evidence so far
The evidence is Buildots’ press release, two Buildots case studies, a Buildots blog post, and comments from NCC staff quoted in those documents. Bricks & Bytes, a construction technology newsletter, labels the headline figure company-reported and not independently verified.
These claims come from Buildots and NCC:
- NCC piloted Buildots on an 8,000-square-meter residential project in Helsinki. It then added three more projects, among them the 9,000-square-meter Fredriksberg D project and a hospital, for 68,500 square meters (737,000 square feet) tracked.
- Tasks finished on time, measured by PPC, rose 2.3 times. The blog post puts it as a rise from a 30% baseline on past projects to almost 70%.
- Time spent on manual reporting fell 70%.
- A later case study covers six Finnish projects with 172,000 square meters of construction area, and says weekly PPC ratios improved over time.
The release describes the PPC gain on one project as a 230% increase. The case study figures, 30% to almost 70%, work out to a ratio of 2.3, which is an increase of about 130%. The table below shows PPC readings at points through the job, as Buildots charts them in the case study.
| Share of project complete | PPC managed traditionally (%) | PPC managed with Buildots (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 35% | 27 | 52 |
| 40% | 27 | 57 |
| 45% | 27 | 71 |
| 50% | 27 | 37 |
| 55% | 27 | 32 |
| 60% | 31 | 57 |
| 65% | 22 | 72 |
| 70% | 27 | 81 |
| 75% | 27 | 90 |
| 80% | 22 | 96 |
The Buildots line falls to 37% and 32% at the 50% and 55% marks, then rises to 96%. The cause of the dip and the number of projects behind the traditional line are not stated in the case study. NCC compared Buildots with three alternatives before choosing it, according to the case study.
Kati Tauriainen, who heads NCC’s Building Finland division, said in the release: “Our experience using Buildots on live projects gave us the evidence we needed.” NCC service manager Nithesh Frei Nadarajah says in the case study that his team spends less time in meetings and arguing with subcontractors.
How to measure it on your projects
Track weekly PPC by trade. Divide the number of tasks finished as committed by the number each foreman committed to in the weekly work plan. A task that is 90% done counts as not done. Record the reason for every miss, such as an open RFI, a late delivery or a predecessor trade that has not released the area.
Capture at least six weeks of baseline before the pilot starts, on the same job if you can. Log two other figures alongside it. The first is the hours the superintendent and project engineers spend each week collecting and writing up progress. The second is the number of times a trade’s reported percent complete differed from what a walk found. Score PPC by the same rule during the pilot, so any change can be traced to the tool. Our post on tracking total float across schedule updates covers the next step, since float shows how many days the misses cost.
A first step on one job: have the superintendent score last week’s lookahead commitments as done or not done, and keep that sheet every Friday.
Availability and cost
The agreement covers NCC Building Nordics operations in Denmark, Finland and Norway. Buildots says its other customers include HOCHTIEF, Bouygues, Intel and VINCI Construction. Prices are not listed in the release, and Buildots’ case study pages send buyers to a demo request. For a competitor that publishes per-square-foot pricing, see our post on Track3D’s progress tracking.