Pipes and cable trays running through the ceiling of a technical building.

Construction and fire protection

From building model to a reviewed quote list

Penetrations found in models and drawings, each with its evidence, and released by a calculator before quoting.

The problem

To price fire-stopping work, every penetration through a fire-rated wall or floor has to be found, measured and classified. The input is a mix of BIM models, PDF drawings and long reports that varies per project.

Done by hand, this takes days. General AI tools get part of the way, but files and prompts have to be redone for each project, the results can't be traced back to their source, and a project lead still checks everything. A quote can't be built on a guess.

The journey

Project and scope
Your team
The calculator uploads the model and drawings, and sets the floors, zones and element types in scope.
Penetrations are detected
Nova
Candidates are found in model and drawings, with size, host element, fire rating and confidence.
Matching a solution
Nova
Each penetration is classified and matched against the tested solutions in the company's catalogue.
Review, row by row
Your team
The calculator inspects each candidate at its source, then confirms, corrects or rejects it.
Contradictions stay visible
Your systems
If drawing and model disagree, both values are shown and the calculator decides which applies.
Release and new versions
Your team
The reviewed list is exported for the quote. A new model version flags only the rows it affects.

Nova's solution direction

Evidence on every row
Each row links to the model element or drawing detail, with its review status and reviewer.
No guessing
Uncertainty is shown rather than hidden, and hard cases go to a person.
Measured on hard cases
Extraction and matching are tested separately against a manually validated reference set.
A closed environment
Project files stay in a secure environment, with the access and traceability this work needs.

Anonymised use case, based on a real brief in our studio. Names and identifying details have been left out. It describes a solution direction, not a measured result.