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Understanding Your Analyze Hub Dashboard

How deviation and progress are calculated and why. What the supporting signals tell you.

The Analyze Hub Dashboard gives you a quick view of two important questions about your project:

How much of the project has been built?
How accurately has the built work been installed?

The Dashboard combines these measures with the dates of the latest BIM, scan, and photo data so you can quickly understand both the state of the project and how current the underlying data is.

Dashboard at a Glance

Dashboard section

What it tells you

Overall Project Progress

How much of the project has been built

Overall Project Deviation

How accurately the built work matches the BIM

Latest BIM Version

Which BIM version is being used as the basis for analysis

Latest Scan Date

The most recent QA/QC-verified point cloud used for analysis

Latest Photo Date

The most recent QA/QC-verified photo data used for analysis

Last updated

When the Dashboard's analysis results last changed

The Progress and Deviation donuts answer different questions, so they are calculated differently.

1. Overall Project Progress

What does it mean?

Overall Project Progress shows how much of the project has been built.

The donut always represents 100% of the project, divided between Built and Not Built.

For example, 70% Built / 30% Not Built means the Dashboard estimates that approximately 70% of the modeled work has been completed.

How is it calculated?

Progress is based on the quantity of work completed, rather than simply counting BIM elements.

This matters because BIM elements can represent very different amounts of work.
For example, a ceiling element representing 900 SF should contribute more to progress than a ceiling element representing 50 SF.

Progress therefore considers:

Quantity × Percent Complete

So a large element that is 50% complete contributes more progress than a small element that is 50% complete.

Simple example

Imagine a trade has three elements:

Element

Quantity

Complete

Contribution

Ceiling A

900 SF

100%

900 SF

Ceiling B

100 SF

0%

0 SF

Ceiling C

50 SF

100%

50 SF

Total quantity: 1,050 SF
Completed quantity: 950 SF

Trade progress = 950 ÷ 1,050 = 90%

So that trade is approximately 90% complete.

How trades contribute to the project total

At the project level, each trade currently receives equal weight. The Dashboard does not assume that a trade with more BIM quantity, deserves a larger influence on the project-wide percentage.

For example:

Trade

Progress

Concrete

80%

Plumbing

60%

HVAC

40%

(80% + 60% + 40%) ÷ 3 = 60% Overall Project Progress

This approach prevents the result from being driven simply by how the BIM happened to be modeled. A project with fewer, larger BIM elements should not automatically appear more or less complete than a project with many smaller elements representing the same amount of work.

2. Overall Project Deviation

What does it mean?

Overall Project Deviation shows how accurately the built work matches the BIM.

It answers:

Of the work that has been built, how closely is it located to where the BIM says it should be?

The donut is divided into three categories:

  • In Place: built and within tolerance of the BIM position

  • Deviated (≤3"): built but out of position by 3 inches or less

  • Critically Deviated (>3"): built but out of position by more than 3 inches

Simple example

Imagine 100 built elements have been positionally evaluated:

Result

Elements

Percentage

In Place

80

80%

Deviated ≤3"

15

15%

Critically Deviated >3"

5

5%

Your Dashboard would show 80% In Place, 15% Deviated, and 5% Critically Deviated.

The three percentages add up to 100% of the evaluated built work.

Why doesn't Deviation include Not Built elements?

The Progress and Deviation donuts measure different things.

Progress asks: How much of the project exists?

Deviation asks: Of the work that exists, is it where it is supposed to be?

An element that has not been built cannot yet be evaluated for installation accuracy, so Not Built elements are excluded from the Deviation calculation. This prevents unbuilt work from artificially lowering the project's deviation rate.

Built elements that have not yet been positionally evaluated are also excluded from the Deviation calculation.

Why aren't larger elements weighted more heavily?

Deviation is based on element count, not quantity.

A 3-inch deviation on a small hanger can still create a problem, just as a 3-inch deviation on a large piece of ductwork can. The purpose of the metric is to identify installation accuracy and potential rework, not to measure the amount of material installed.

Why doesn't partial completion reduce the deviation?

An element can be positionally evaluated before it reaches 100% completion.

For example, a wall that is only 25% complete can already be installed in the wrong location. That deviation is useful to identify immediately because it may be easier and less expensive to correct early.

Progress considers percent complete. Deviation considers location.

3. How Progress and Deviation Work Together

The two donuts are most useful when viewed together.

Imagine your Dashboard shows:

Progress: 70% Built
Deviation: 90% In Place

This means about 70% of the modeled work has been built, and of the built work that has been positionally evaluated, about 90% is within the expected location.

The two numbers measure different aspects of the project, so they should not be expected to move together. Progress can increase while Deviation stays roughly the same, and Deviation can change even when overall Progress changes very little.

4. Understanding the Dashboard Dates

The three supporting date cards help you understand how current the information is.

Latest BIM Version

This tells you the date associated with the BIM version being used by the project.

Latest Scan Date

This is the most recent point cloud that has completed the applicable QA/QC process and is therefore eligible to affect the Dashboard.

Latest Photo Date

This is the most recent photo data that has completed the applicable QA/QC process and is therefore eligible to affect the Dashboard.

Why do the dates matter?

The Dashboard only uses reality-capture data after the applicable QA/QC process is complete.

New capture → Processing and analysis → QA/QC → Dashboard update

While a new scan or photo set is being processed, the Dashboard continues showing the most recently verified results rather than showing incomplete analysis.

This means a newly captured scan or photo set may not immediately change the Dashboard.

5. What Does "Last Updated" Mean?

The Last updated timestamp tells you when the analysis results currently displayed on the Dashboard last changed.

It is not simply the time you opened the Dashboard or the time a report was generated. It reflects changes to the underlying data represented by the Dashboard.

Date

Question it answers

Latest BIM Version

What model are we comparing against?

Latest Scan Date

What is the latest verified pointcloud available?

Latest Photo Date

What is the latest verified photo data available?

Last updated

When did the Dashboard's displayed analysis last change?


6. A Few Things to Keep in Mind

Project Progress is not simply "percentage of BIM elements built"

A BIM may contain 500 elements or 5,000 elements, but element count alone does not tell you how much physical work those elements represent. Progress therefore uses the quantity represented by the elements and their completion status.

Project Deviation is not "percentage of the entire BIM that is within tolerance"

Deviation considers built work that has been positionally evaluated. Not Built elements are not part of the deviation calculation.

Each trade currently has equal weight in the project-level percentages

The Dashboard calculates the progress or deviation percentage for each trade and then averages those trade-level results.

This means the project-level percentage is not weighted by factors such as trade cost or labor hours. For that reason, the Dashboard is best understood as a standardized project health indicator, rather than a direct representation of project budget, labor, or earned value.

7. The Simplest Way to Read the Dashboard

When you first open the Dashboard, ask:

  1. How much is built? Look at Overall Project Progress.

  2. How accurately is it built? Look at Overall Project Deviation.

  3. How current is the underlying data? Look at the Latest BIM, Scan, and Photo dates.

  4. When did the displayed results last change? Look at Last updated.

Together, these give you a quick snapshot of project progress, installation accuracy, and data freshness.

Example: Reading a Dashboard

Imagine your Dashboard shows:

Dashboard measure

Result

Overall Project Progress

70% Built / 30% Not Built

In Place

90%

Deviated ≤3"

7%

Critically Deviated >3"

3%

Latest BIM

May 30

Latest Scan

May 31

Latest Photo

May 28

A quick interpretation would be:

About 70% of the modeled work is built. Of the built work that has been positionally evaluated, 90% is in place, 7% is within 3 inches of the modeled position, and 3% is more than 3 inches from the modeled position. The most recent verified scan is from May 31, while the latest verified photo data is from May 28.

The Dashboard gives you a fast, consistent way to understand where the project stands before digging into individual elements for more detail.

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