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Technology & Analytics
Technology & Anal ytics

Supporting Rosendin's
Supporting Rosendin's

Growth & Innovation
Growth & Innovation

By Jad Chalhoub, PhD, Director of Business Analytics

he Technology Department is excited to share ACCESSING INFORMATION BEYOND THE FIELD

some updates on Rosendin's growth and
T innovation in the industry. As Rosendin takes Information access extends beyond the field and into the office.
The Building Information Modeling (BIM) team is introducing
on more complex projects, our operations teams another layer of formal quality checks to ensure quality is
continuously seek out new tools and processes to help maintained at various project milestones. Since its introduction
in January, more than 45 models have been through the QA/QC
teams collect and understand data. The Technology & process, with more being added daily. The BIM team has also
Analytics (T&A) team has been instrumental in creating worked with IT and T&A to create tools enabling BIM financial
and productivity tracking. BIM productivity data is entered into
these tools and providing analytics to ensure the an Oracle module that closely mimics our standard productivity

successful delivery of projects. module, and an analytics dashboard provides an overview of the
data. In turn, managers quickly understand the performance of
One such group within T&A is the Field Applications team, which all the projects they are managing and focus their attention on
is dedicated to streamlining our field work and providing point- projects that need it the most. This collaboration has increased
of-use access to information. The team has created Augmented financial literacy in the BIM department and with operational
Reality (AR) applications, such as the Field Viewer and Sheet project management.
Viewer, allowing users to visualize a 3D model while in the field.
Since its release, these applications have been exported over COMPANY-WIDE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY &
1,300 times. Recently, the team released version 2.0 of the Field
Viewer and Sheet Viewer, enhancing their functionality and user ANALYTICS
interface. These tools will soon be used for QA/QC as well.
Throughout all our innovations, T&A plays a pivotal role in
OPENSPACE & ROSENDIN DRONE PROGRAM explaining the collected data, informing future data collection
practices, defining ROI metrics, and supporting efforts. In 2022,
OpenSpace is another tool being implemented company-wide. the T&A team had a central role in the company-wide safety
This tool allows the user to capture 360-degree video of the job analytics, which helped inform our 2023 safety roadmap. T&A
site by simply walking around, similar to Google Street View. The continues to work with projects, divisions, and departments
program automatically attaches the videos to project plans, to throughout Rosendin to leverage data and help make informed
view the progress of a specific area over time. OpenSpace is now decisions. The team is now focusing on creating Rosendin's Data
deployed on 70 projects nationwide, with over 10,000 videos Lake, which will aggregate all our data sources in a single location,
and thousands of hours captured. For large projects such as solar act as a single source of truth, and streamline and accelerate our
fields, Rosendin has developed the Rosendin Drone Program. This path to insights.
program and the accompanying Flight Logger app allow the user As Rosendin continues to grow, our support teams are dedicated
to fly a drone over a solar field, log the flight, and automatically to ensuring we are at the industry's leading edge of technology
capture panel installation information and heat signals. The and innovation adoption. Our teams strive to provide value
content gathered ensures our teams are delivering the quality and optimizations, from our leading AR and drone tools to our
experience our clients associate with our brand. The program is enhanced quality-checking processes to our informative analytics.
currently being piloted on two projects, with more on the way. We look forward to sharing our progress and collaborating on

bringing new and innovative ideas to everyone at Rosendin.

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