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Gilbane Building Company and Nextera Robotics (MIT, Y-Combinator) are committed to transforming construction delivery. Nextera’s Didge AI-powered platform provides scalable, autonomous robots that are cost-efficient and sustainable, making construction sites safer and more efficient.
Currently in use at the new 17-story, 400,000 SF Children's Hospital of Philadelphia’s (CHOP) Morgan Center for Research and Innovation, this platform brings tremendous value. “The biggest benefit is efficiency—we can get so many different outputs from one scan,” explains Ryan Spotts, Gilbane senior project executive. “We’re getting information on safety, quality control, and progress monitoring, as well as keeping our client informed.”
The Nextera robots are fully autonomous, navigating multiple floors of the site and taking consistent documentation to create a digital repository of project imagery. Spotts says that with the CHOP’s facade mostly completed and work shifting to interiors, this kind of site documentation accelerates work on the interior phase.
“Gilbane greatly values our long-standing partnership with Nextera Robotics. The robust progress tracking, safety monitoring, and visual documentation bring tremendous value to our project teams, freeing them from repetitive tasks and allowing them to focus on providing our clients with innovative and sustainable building solutions,” said Heidi DeBenedetti, Gilbane’s Chief Operating Officer.
Didge offers BIM integration for quality control and progress tracking and provides AI-driven predictions for schedule management—small adjustments can add up. “All of these micro-adjustments, over a one-to-three-year project—the amount of time saved is huge, said Jacob Ryals, director of operations at Nextera.
At Gilbane, we’re committed to providing innovative, sustainable, and scalable solutions that solve operational challenges, enhance our clients’ experience, and seamlessly integrate into our workflows.
“People spend time on value-added problem solving, not data gathering,” says Spotts. Smaller projects that don’t have the budget for robust documentation can get the same level of reports.”
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