2024 SAG Award Winners

IDD Tech (A member of Cimic Group)

Project Goal

CIMIC Group company, IDD Tech develops integrated digital delivery software for the construction, resources and services sectors.
IDD Tech champions industry-wide digitisation, interoperability, and data security. Connectivity, collaboration and data driven decisions are critical to embedding safety and resilience, reducing emissions and waste, and increasing productivity in every phase of the asset lifecycle.
IDD Tech’s ToBe Builder™ product is a planning and collaboration tool. It enables users to integrate complex 3D scenes from GIS and BIM, with time and complex rigged resources (dimensionally accurate moveable models of equipment and people) to create an immersive 4D collaboration environment. The solution provides all stakeholders with a unified platform to plan, visualize and execute projects, and produce robust, constructable, synchronised sub-plans to deliver every work package, before deploying to site.

Business Problem Solved

ToBe Builder is a new breed of planning and collaboration tool, assisting design and construction teams to align on what needs to be built when and how. It enables projects to develop a robust, constructable, and synchronised plan to deliver every work package, before deploying to site.
Teams use ToBe Builder to collaborate on design, planning and delivery solutions, using integrated 4D technology. ToBe Builder equips users to consider the project site context, cost of resources and timing of delivery, and to iterate solutions as the design and plan develop, proactively managing safety, resource efficiency, clash detection and project outcomes.
ToBe Builder is provided ready to be immediately integrated into the client environment. The solution is a desktop thin client which connects to robust cloud services, providing a true global multiuser environment, with the power of full desktop hardware. Our expert ToBe Builder support team provides fast, reliable enquiry and incident response.

Technology Implemented

ToBe Builder has been created by integrating select Commercial Authoring Tools with state-of-the-art simulation and digital twin technologies. These include direct integration with Autodesk Construction Cloud, Trimble Connect for easy import of BIM geometry, full support for Esri image, vector and scene services from ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online for GIS context. Oracle Primavera (XER), Microsoft Project (MPP), Asta Powerproject (PP) and Excel schedule (TSV) are leveraged to bookend the key schedule constraints for each simulation. ToBe Builder combines these platforms, with Unity Gaming Engine to produce stuning visual fidelity, and ultra fast real time rendering.

Development Team Biography

Our IDD Tech team is inspired by the challenge of achieving more for the future. We are passionate about bringing business, industry, science, technology, engineering, and on-site know-how together to turn ideas like ToBe Builder into new ways of working.
Collaboration across our diverse team of developers and industry specialists has been the cornerstone of ToBe Builder’s success. Congratulations to the ToBe Builder team which includes colleagues from CIMIC Group companies IDD Tech and EIC Activities on being recognised by the Esri Special Achievement in GIS award for their achievements.