Sectors · Construction & Infrastructure
Datacation helps construction and infrastructure teams find project knowledge, connect their systems and reduce routine work with AI.
A trusted, well-known and innovative partner
Datacation has worked with companies in construction, installation, engineering and infrastructure. Across those projects, we have seen how knowledge stays with experienced colleagues or gets buried in SharePoint and network drives. Information then has to travel through calculation, work preparation, execution and invoicing, often across teams and systems that do not share it easily.
Your team does not have to start with a list of AI tools. We look at where project knowledge is hard to find, which systems need to share information and which routine steps take up your people's time. Together, we choose a useful first application, build it around the way your projects run and stay involved as your team starts using it.
Stage 01
We start where the work is. In a workshop with management and project people, we show on examples from construction what AI already does with project files, work orders, invoices and daily admin. Together we pick the questions worth answering first.
Stage 02
We map how information moves through your projects, from work preparation to handover and invoicing: where documents pile up, which steps take time and where knowledge depends on one colleague. Together, we assess the most promising use cases against your hours, costs and systems before deciding what to build.
Stage 03
We connect what is already there. SharePoint, network drives and ERP systems such as BouwWorks become one source your teams can search and ask questions. Where a process has too many steps, we automate the routine part so experts can spend their time on the work itself.
Stage 04
A tool has to work for the office and the site. We train colleagues from your own teams, practise with their documents and processes, and gather feedback during daily use. Datacation stays involved while your team makes the new way of working its own.
Pick a subsector to see the work behind it.
With Kanters and partners, we connect sensors on water levels, soil moisture and rainfall to a central data platform. A digital twin steers pumps, valves and water buffers, so cities flood less and water is kept for dry periods.
A Quick Scan with data maturity mapping, an impact-effort matrix and a roadmap for deciding what to tackle first.
Nova answers questions on processes, safety and house rules, with the source, via web app and Teams.
An AI model that learns from historical jobs and preselects the right price book rules, so invoicing is faster and more consistent.
Our offering
Our offering follows the same four stages as our approach. Some clients start with a workshop to see what is possible. Others bring one process that takes too many steps. Either way, we begin with what delivers value on your projects and build from there, one working application at a time, so less of the day goes to admin and more to expertise.
Industry lead
“Good construction companies run on experience and craftsmanship. I help them spend more of the day on that, and less of it on admin.”Jasper OostvogelData consultant & Project manager
Jasper works as data consultant and project manager with construction, installation and engineering companies. He turns everyday friction, from long approval chains to systems that don't share data, into AI applications that fit how projects run, and stays involved until they are part of daily work.
What we build
Concrete examples of what we build in this sector.
Ask a question about procedures, specifications or past projects and get an answer with a link to the source document, inside your own environment.
Requirements, risks and deviations pulled from specifications and contracts, so the calculation team starts from a checklist instead of a stack of PDFs.
Completed work turned into invoice lines automatically, with labour, materials and subcontractors compiled per job.
Incoming emails, work orders and documents recognised and routed to the right team or project, so nobody has to sort the inbox by hand.
BouwWorks, SharePoint and planning tools linked so data is entered once, and the office and the site work from the same numbers.
Project margin, hours and progress in one dashboard, fed straight from ERP and planning, so reporting stops being a monthly Excel exercise.
Proven in practice
Knaapen maintains homes for housing associations. Each completed repair had to be matched by hand to one of more than 1,000 price book rules. Datacation built an AI model that uses historical jobs to preselect matching rules, which made final invoicing faster and more consistent.
Why Datacation
We're not a generalist consultancy with an AI badge bolted on. We are a dedicated data & AI partner: econometricians, mathematicians and engineers who build things that survive contact with production.
Backgrounds in AI, data science, econometrics and mathematics. Many of our people hold PhDs and stay connected to leading research groups and universities.
Your domain knowledge plus our technical expertise. We build alongside your team, transfer the knowledge and leave you in control of what we make together.
No endless plans, but concrete steps. We start small, prove value fast and scale what works, from a first Quick Scan to a platform your whole organisation runs on.
Technology only works when people actually use it. We speak the language of the boardroom and the shop floor, and we design for adoption from day one.
Safe, explainable and manageable AI, with the governance, policies and change management to match. We help you raise adoption without lowering the bar.
Tell us what you are working on. We will get back to you and explore together what data and AI can do for you.
