Aeion Construction vs Procore, PlanGrid & BIM 360
Legacy construction software charges premium subscriptions for fragmented features. Aeion Construction delivers AI estimating (CSI codes), BIM clash detection, holographic BIM viewing (WebXR), OSHA safety sensors, and NMEA GPS tracking—all for $79/month flat, unlimited users, with a 14-day free trial.
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Decisive Architectural Advantages
BIM Clash Detection
Procore requires manual clash review. Aeion automatically detects geometric collisions between structural, MEP, and architectural models and opens an RFI with the clash location already attached. Navisworks-compatible. Works across federated models.
AI Estimating (CSI Cost Codes)
Procore has basic cost tracking. Describe the project in plain English and Aeion generates a full estimate — materials, labor, equipment, subcontractor line items — organized under standard CSI MasterFormat cost codes, with quantities and unit costs ready to review.
Holographic BIM Viewing (WebXR)
No competitor supports holographic BIM. Aeion renders drone photogrammetry as a walkable 3D site model in Apple Vision Pro. Gaussian splat (PLY/KSPLAT/SPZ) and mesh (GLB/OBJ/FBX/USD/USDZ) formats both supported. Site walkthrough in AR.
NMEA GPS Equipment Tracking
Procore charges $300/month for GPS. Aeion reads standard NMEA GPS data straight from serial or Bluetooth hardware — no separate GPS subscription, no cloud dependency, live position and heading on the map.
OSHA Safety Sensors
Basic logging elsewhere. Aeion monitors gas levels (CO/H2S/O2/LEL), noise, dust, and temperature against official OSHA limits in real time, including heat-index-based work-hold guidance. Alerts escalate through safe/caution/danger/evacuate.
Jobsite Multi-Cam Supervision
Separate $400/month elsewhere. Every helmet-cam worker on site streams into one supervisor grid view, with GPS per worker and recording on by default for OSHA and insurance audits.
Immutable Cost Ledger
Procore has basic tracking. Aeion posts every cost entry to a tamper-proof ledger — corrections are always additional entries, never overwrites — and keeps budget-vs-actual variance current per cost code automatically.
RFI Auto-Generation
Manual process elsewhere. Aeion auto-creates a fully formatted RFI the moment a BIM clash is detected, sequentially numbered with both colliding elements and the clash location already filled in.
Schedule Delay Detection
Aeion flags tasks that have slipped past their end date before they're complete, identifies what's on the critical path, and alerts the team automatically.
Reliable Background Automation
Recurring jobs like lookahead-schedule generation run on a resilient queue with automatic retries, so a transient hiccup never silently drops work.
Earned Value Tracking
Aeion calculates CPI/SPI. Progress measurement. Variance analysis. Forecasting.
Drone Scan Integration
Event-driven ingestion. `spatial.scan.completed` → project association. Splat and mesh formats. Idempotent linking.
Worker Badge RFID
HID RFID for check-in/check-out. OSHA compliance records. Audit trail. Crew management.
Equipment RFID Tracking
Tag excavators, cranes, generators. Check-in/out status. Asset management.
Weather Station
Local weather data. Heat index decisions. Automatic work-hold alerts.
Change Order Processing
Workflow management. Approval routing. Cost/schedule impact.
Frequently Asked Questions
Upload the models for each discipline (structural, MEP, architectural). Aeion compares their geometry and, wherever two elements physically overlap in space, flags it as a clash and auto-generates an RFI with the clash location attached — no manual review pass required.
Describe the project in plain English and Aeion's estimator returns a structured set of line items — each with a description, a standard CSI cost code, cost type (material/labor/equipment/subcontractor), quantity, unit of measure, and unit cost — and rolls them up into a total estimate you can edit.
When a drone scan or BIM-tagged capture finishes processing, Aeion automatically links it to the right project. Gaussian splat captures (PLY/KSPLAT/SPZ) render as photorealistic point clouds; mesh formats (GLB/OBJ/FBX/USD/USDZ) render as 3D models — both viewable in Apple Vision Pro.
Aeion reads the standard NMEA sentences GPS hardware already broadcasts over serial or Bluetooth — position, altitude, satellite count, speed, and heading — and converts them into a live position on the map. No cloud round-trip needed.
Gas (CO/H2S/O2/LEL), noise, dust, and temperature sensors are compared continuously against official OSHA exposure limits. Heat index is computed from temperature and humidity using the National Weather Service's standard formula. Alerts escalate through safe/caution/danger/evacuate.
Starting a supervision session opens a single shared video room — every worker's helmet cam and the supervisor join it together, so the supervisor sees a live grid of the whole crew. Recording runs by default and each worker's feed is archived separately for OSHA/insurance audits, with GPS tracked per worker throughout.
Aeion uses the Rothfusz regression — the standard NWS heat-index formula based on temperature and relative humidity — once conditions cross into the range where the simplified formula stops being accurate (roughly 80°F apparent temperature).
Every cost entry is appended to the ledger and never overwritten — corrections are posted as new offsetting entries, preserving a full audit trail. Project totals and each cost code's budget-vs-actual variance recalculate automatically the moment an entry posts.
The moment a clash is detected, Aeion assigns the next sequential RFI number, fills in a subject naming both colliding elements, attaches the clash location, and notifies the assigned reviewer.
CO: 8-hour average 50ppm, ceiling 200ppm. H2S: average 10ppm, peak 50ppm. O2: safe range 19.5-23.5%. Lower explosive limit: caution at 25%. Noise: hearing-protection threshold 85dB, exposure limit 90dB. Heat index: extreme caution above 103°F, stop outdoor work above 115°F.
Yes. Any NMEA-compatible GPS hardware connected over serial or Bluetooth reports position, speed, heading, altitude, and satellite fix quality straight to the equipment map — no cloud dependency, no added GPS subscription.
As soon as a BIM-tagged drone scan finishes processing, Aeion matches it to the right project automatically and links the output. Re-processing the same scan won't create duplicates — Aeion recognizes it's already linked.
CSI MasterFormat: `##-##-##` (Division-Section-Subsection). Divisions run 01-33. Example: "03-30-00" = Concrete → Cast-in-Place Concrete.
Workers tap a standard RFID/NFC badge at a jobsite reader. Aeion timestamps the check-in/check-out in the audit trail and ties it to that worker's crew record and OSHA compliance history.
These are the two standard NMEA GPS sentence types: GPGGA carries fix data (position, altitude, satellite count, fix quality); GPRMC carries speed and heading. Aeion reads both together for a complete position picture.
Recurring operations like lookahead-schedule generation run on a resilient job queue with automatic retries and backoff, so a transient failure gets retried rather than silently dropped.
Aeion flags any task that's past its end date and not yet marked complete, calculates how many days late it is, and marks it if it sits on the critical path — then notifies the project team automatically.