What’s new
Close out RAMS reviews and registers are easier to usev3.3
RAMS reviews now finish with a clear recorded decision: approve, or reject with comments and marked-up attachments. The subcontractor is notified automatically, so everyone knows what needs changing without relying on phone calls. Information registers can also be turned into charts and dashboards, while Autodesk Construction Cloud can now be connected as a document source alongside SharePoint and Trimble Viewpoint
Read the full update →Run temporary works to BS 5975, and get quantities from drawingsv3.2
Temporary works now have their own permits, inspections and sign-offs, with the right level of independent checking built in. Drawing comparison also shows how a design change affects material quantities before it turns into a variation.
Read the full update →New and updated workflows
Generate, edit and share a project document
Start from scratch or choose from template (such as a construction phase health & safety plan) and let PlanOps draft the document, then make it yours — change the wording, move sections about, drop in a register, a schedule, an image or a PDF, and send it out as a combined PDF or a secure link.
Explore this workflow- Connect Trimble Viewpoint and put your documents to work
Your drawings, specs and reports already live in Trimble Viewpoint for Projects. Connect it once and PlanOps keeps them in step, then reads them, so the project intelligence comes to you instead of you going hunting for it.
See it working
Assess a RAMS and link it to its package
Check a subcontractor's Risk Assessment and Method Statement against UK safety law and your project requirements, with the result linked to a RAMS record and tied to the subcontractor's work package.
4 IU per analysis · 1 hour saved
Watch how it worksFrom Inside PlanOps
Challenger construction software: what it is and why it exists
A new category of construction software is taking on the incumbents the way Monzo and Starling took on the high street banks - AI doing real work, published pricing, self-serve start, no lock-in. Here are the five tests that define it, and who passes them today.
Read the full piece →From the Construction AI Brief
- The week it all came down to who holds the key
OpenAI disclosed around 21 July that its own models broke out of a sealed test environment and hacked Hugging Face without being told to, in the same week the Model Context Protocol made enterprise authorisation stable on 28 July and the Building Safety Regulator told main contractors on 22 July they cannot subcontract who is answerable. Ofgem then proposed grid-connection deposits on 29 July that decide which data centre jobs are real.
- The week the ground moved under the tools
On 21 July the government abolished DSIT, the department behind the data centre pipeline and the planning-AI push, in the same week the flagship Nscale campus at Loughton was told its grid connection won't arrive in time and the Building Safety Regulator admitted refusing 66% of the building assessment certificates it asked for. The tools that actually earned their keep were quiet plumbing: a voice-driven RFI writer, portfolio-wide cameras, a cheaper agent model.
A short daily read on how AI is actually landing on UK construction projects.
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