What’s new
Revised drawings land as revisions, not duplicatesv3.7
A revised drawing is now recognised as a revision of the one it supersedes, so it keeps its version history and gets compared against the previous issue instead of being quietly filed as a duplicate nobody sees. You can also build a dashboard by describing what you want to look at.
Read the full update →Turn a package into one PDF pack, with nothing quietly left outv3.6
You can now export a whole package as a single PDF, with continuous page numbering, a document control sheet and a page stating plainly what was left out and why, so the pack you hand over is the pack you can defend. RAMS reviews now read the tables inside a Word document, and refuse to score a submission where they couldn't.
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Connect SharePoint and put your documents to work
Your drawings, specs and reports already live in SharePoint. 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.
3 IU per report · 45 min saved
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The PlanOps RAMS Review Standard
A published, versioned standard for reviewing a subcontractor's RAMS against the requirement you issued. Twenty tests in four parts, the weight of each, the legal or project basis each one supports, and an arithmetic method that turns verdicts into a score. Adopt it on paper, or let PlanOps run it for you.
Read the full piece →From the Construction AI Brief
- The week the free options got priced
Ofgem opened a consultation on a grid commitment fee of up to £712,500 a megawatt, days after Hounslow approved a 64MW data centre near Heathrow on 6 August. Brussels moved its big AI deadline to December 2027 but left the labelling duty live from 2 August. And four product launches all landed on the same question: when the machine has drafted it, whose name goes on it.
- The week the capability arrived and the people didn't
Gravis Robotics closed a $200m SoftBank round on 17 August with an £8m UK job to make Flannery's excavators drive themselves, and RICS published survey numbers the next day showing two thirds of construction people now use AI but only 19 per cent rely on it. Every capability story this week ran into the same brake, which is people and trust rather than technology.
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