Construcciones Yamaro: Spatial intelligence solves progress tracking on a mega pipeline
The $983 million Fitzroy to Gladstone Pipeline is one of the largest water infrastructure projects in Central Queensland’s history. It spans 117 kilometres of pipeline that crosses varied terrain, involving engineers, environmental specialists, subcontractors and project managers working across the state.
It’s also the kind of project where the old ways of tracking progress start to show their limits.
Before work like this can be approved, paid for and moved forward, someone has to verify it actually happened. On a regional infrastructure site that stretches across the landscape, sitting more than 500 kilometres from the joint venture’s Brisbane head office, that’s not as straightforward as it sounds. Weekly progress reporting, BIM-to-as-built validation, subcontractor payment claims: each of these requires visibility that a folder of 2D photos and a time-lapse camera simply can’t provide.
BMD senior project engineer Wei Kong recognised this early. Drawing on his background in reality capture, he built a business case for a single source of truth: one platform that would give every stakeholder, regardless of their location, the same accurate, spatially organised view of what was happening on the ground.
The answer was CupixWorks from Cupix.
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The platform gave the project team something they hadn’t had before: a 3D digital twin of the site, updated with near real-time 360° SiteView captures, with BIM models displayed side-by-side for design-to-as-built comparison. Every capture was automatically organised by time and accessible via a shared cloud link, with no site visit required.
“The Cupix solution captures an enormous amount of data very elegantly and is automatically organised, including BIM models with side-by-side comparisons, organised by time,” said Kong. “The platform has a very easy-to-use interface to perform forensic analysis after the capture.”
For a project where physical travel was a constraint, this changed the dynamic. Stakeholders who previously had to wait for someone to fly to Rockhampton could now walk the site virtually, review annotated progress data and make informed decisions without delay. Inconsistencies in progress reporting dropped. Payment claim validation became faster and more defensible. Design discrepancies were caught earlier.
Water infrastructure is one of the most demanding environments for construction site management: long linear corridors, varied ground conditions, distributed workforces and a client and regulator community that expects rigorous documentation. Getting spatial intelligence right on a project like this isn’t just operationally useful. It protects the project.
The full story of how BMD and McConnell Dowell applied CupixWorks across the Fitzroy to Gladstone Pipeline, including the specific challenges they faced, the features they relied on most and the outcomes they achieved, is available as a free download.
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