Overview

Construction progress monitoring involves tracking and assessing the development of a construction project over time to ensure that it aligns with planned schedules, quality standards, and budgetary constraints. However, current methods fall short in providing sufficient visibility across large, disparate sites. Satellite technology and data, combined with advanced analytical techniques, have the capability to offer better visibility, reduced costs, and broader coverage, especially for multinational projects.

Scope

The main objective of this call for proposals is to assess the feasibility of, and/or demonstrate, high resolution (temporal and spatial) monitoring of construction sites using satellite data and technology, at an affordable price point. The solicited activities will enable improved monitoring of construction sites and earth-moving activities.

Key areas of interest include:

• Progress Monitoring: Tracking project advancement from commencement through completion for comparisons between design, pre-construction and as-built conditions.
• Safety Monitoring: Early hazard identification and mitigation on construction sites.
• Structural Monitoring: Assessment and tracking of the condition of infrastructure over time.
• Documentation and Reporting: Automated extraction of insights from digital resources produced and transacted throughout construction projects, for efficiency, compliance and accountability.
• Environmental Reporting: Systematic observation, measurement and analysis of environmental conditions on and around construction sites to ensure compliance with regulations and positive reputational standing with local communities.
• Logistics and supply chain monitoring: Improved tracking of sourcing, procurement and delivery processes to negate the impact of supply chain difficulties on project implementation and quality.
• Cross-sector applications: Services that consider not only the construction sites but its interactions with nearby infrastructure and ecosystems.

Value of space

Satellite data and technology is expected to play a critical role in the proposed solutions to this challenge.

Satellite Earth Observation data can offer extensive coverage, frequent revisit rates,  consistent data quality across construction sites, tracking of highway works, vegetation information, presence of land equipment, detection of vehicles, like-for-like comparisons over time, identification of metallic objects on-site, area occupation, and otherwise, also enabling monitoring under any weather conditions. Earth observation can measure heat signatures, provide topographical measurements, air quality analysis and detect changes in land use.