PCL Construction, one of the largest contracting organisations in North America, has agreed a partnership with Document Crunch to harness AI and machine learning technology to enhance construction project risk management and contract compliance.
PCL is a group of independent construction companies that operates across the buildings, civil infrastructure, heavy industrial and solar markets throughout the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Australia. It completes more than $6bn in work annually.
The agreement will see PCL train all of its project teams in the use of Document Crunch’s proprietary AI solutions. The aim is to ensure consistency in managing contracts throughout the project lifecycle. It will also create a standardised workflow for the transfer of ownership from one responsible party to another at each stage.
‘Consistent behaviour produces consistent results’
Mark Bryant, chief information officer at PCL, said: “Consistent behaviour and approach produce consistent results. This means our customers can be assured we manage project expectations with the same lens regardless of the team.
“The only thing for certain is that change will occur. We prefer to be shaping it to the best of our abilities, not trying to catch up.”
John Levy, co-founder and CEO of Document Crunch, said: “Our bigger vision has always been around project teams being better enabled at contract compliance.
“We made a significant investment into building an enterprise-grade product ready to be adopted by project teams across the board. This includes meeting the highest data security and privacy standards, having just completed our SOC 2 Type II compliance audit.
“PCL was an early adopter and an excellent partner who helped us get over the threshold from good early solution to enterprise ready. This partnership is a strong signal that our vision is real, and that our product is ready to be operationalised every day across projects within construction operations.”
