doxel, a construction management software application that uses computer vision to track, monitor progress and predict potential problems with everything from design, constructability to scheduling, recently announced that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding.
Insight Partners contributed to the round, with existing backers Andreessen Horowitz (also known as a16z) and Amplo bringing the startup’s total amount of cash raised to $56.5 million since its founding nearly six years ago. A16z participated in all of Doxel’s rounds from seed to Series B.
斯坦福大学的首席执行官兼联合创始人Saurabh Ladha说：“我们基本上是一个由计算机驱动的预测分析平台。”他父亲拥有的设施威胁要将父母破产。他和首席技术官罗宾·辛格（Robin Singh）于2015年底与他人共同创立了加利福尼亚州红木城市。手动输入和手动数据输入有时会出现垃圾，在垃圾中出现。您的决定只能与您获取的信息一样好。”
Doxel的AI被称为建筑百科全书的内容，在《百科全书》数据库中记录了数百个已完成的项目和经验教训。18luck官网AI试图将跨越无数项目类型的项目控制的域专业知识数字化。由于AI能够从百科全书中的多种不同项目类型（例如石油和天然气，医疗保健等）中汲取信息，因此可以根据建筑类型和过去的时间表分析和告知承包商的计划。
Ladha解释了使用Doxel的AI弄清楚一位大型石油和天然气项目的客户如何弄清楚，尚未安装超过12％的管道。鉴于这是在100万平方英尺的设施上这将对项目的关键道路产生级联效应。
“我们的施工交叉引用si百科全书milar systems and correlates components to their relationship with cash and schedule," Ladha says. "And it's constantly learning project controls, domain expertise. We've now tracked tens of billions of dollars of construction."
One owner that is using Doxel on a major project is Shell Petrochemical Pennsylvania. Shell Petrochemical and contractor raSmith are nearing completion of what's estimated to be a $6 billion to $10 billion Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Project in Beaver County, Pa., northwest of Pittsburgh. The project includes four ehtylene processing units (three of which are polyethelene reactors), one ethane cracker, a natural gas power plant to support both the plant and the local electric grid, a 900-ft-tall cooling tower, a rail system with over 3,000 rail freight cars, numerous loading facilities for both trains and trucks. The scope of work also includes 810,000 sq ft of Ohio River dock being built by Alberici, a water treatment plant, an office building, a laboratory, and an innovation center.
宾夕法尼亚州化学项目的IT总监兼首席信息官Dmitry Gurevich说：“您总是必须平衡的挑战是您现在有几千人。”“因此，您如何最好地利用从项目监督中获得有限的资源，项目管理的观点，您可以跟踪最重要的事情。您的有限资源以最有效，最有效的方式应用。”
Shell is estimating a 2022 opening for the Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Plant, which is expected to produce 1.6 million tons of polyethylene each year once in service.
Ladha says that Doxel is focused on solving problems with the construction process that can be recognized by its AI independent of human error.
"That's the problem that we are looking to address [with] computer vision, machine vision" Ladha says. "Instead of people having to enter the data, people can focus on solving the [construction] process rather than on finding [errors] and reporting on them. It's wild."
