Building Digital

Construction is one of the least digitized sectors in North America, but it continues to operate with one of the lowest productivity rates across all industries. Margins are tight, schedules slip constantly, and digital adoption is shallow at best. Despite a flood of point solutions, most companies still lack access to credible, practical digital services that solve real problems across the project lifecycle. The issue isn’t awareness, it’s application. Owners want better insight into costs, timelines, and emissions. Contractors want to streamline operations and reduce risk. Facilities teams want usable data at handover. But there is no cohesive ecosystem of digital services to support these goals. Most construction firms don’t have the internal capabilities to build these solutions. Tech vendors rarely understand the operational complexity of a jobsite. Disconnected tools, fragmented data, and processes that cannot scale. The industry’s core challenge is a massive delivery gap, between what digital tech promises, and what actually shows up on real projects. That’s the problem Building Digital was created to solve. Not as a software company, not as a consultancy, but as a service layer that sits between construction and digital. The job to be done was to bring forward credible, field-tested, ready-to-deploy digital services that address real pain points, cost overruns, carbon reporting, asset data handover, invoice processing, and more, through offerings built by people who understand how buildings actually get built.

The core challenge in the industry is the absence of credible, scalable digital services that are grounded in real construction workflows. Building Digital was created specifically to solve that problem, not with theoretical software, but with proven, ready-to-deploy offerings. We took field-tested capabilities from within EllisDon and repackaged them as modular services that external clients can adopt without complexity, long ramp-ups, or internal tech teams. Rather than selling platforms or licenses, Building Digital operates as a digital delivery partner. We productized services that directly address recurring project pain points: digital twin creation and integration, asset data handover, AI-powered invoice and expense automation, carbon emissions reporting, and data governance support. These services are built around real-world constraints, tight timelines, limited budgets, and operational complexity, and are delivered by teams who understand both construction and technology. We also created a business model that supports rapid deployment. Clients can engage Building Digital across any project phase, design, construction, or operations, and receive measurable outcomes within weeks. Each solution is configured to the project context and connected directly to business objectives like cost savings, carbon tracking, or asset readiness. The result is a scalable, credible digital layer that sits on top of existing project delivery workflows.