>> PCL's a 110-year-old company
founded in Saskatchewan.
We operate in heavy industrial,
civil construction,
and buildings.
Our customers are asking for
a new and competitive
solutions to
drive their own organizations.
We need to embrace digital change
to remain competitive, relevant.
>> It's not okay just
to be a builder,
we need to understand
the development aspect
in the early stages,
the construction,
post-construction and frankly,
how the building is being
used by its occupants.
>> Four years ago, we had
a four-prong digital
strategy that
involved migrating
to cloud compute,
business intelligence
and analytics,
smarter integration,
and mobility.
Microsoft and its Azure
technology and platform had
been a game-changer for us
relative to driving
that strategy.
>> The Stantec Tower
is an iconic project.
It is the largest building
outside of Toronto in Canada.
>> This is a LEED Gold
certified building.
We've relied on
technology to implement
our construction planning
from virtual reality,
4-D scheduling, and
HoloLens technology.
>> A smart building is
a win-win for the owner,
the operator, and the tenant.
You're putting in
the core infrastructure to
make it flexible
enough in the future.
PCL created Job Site Insights(TM),
an IoT-based smart construction
platform based off
of Microsoft Azure,
Azure Digital Twin, and
Azure Maps technologies.
It starts with instrumenting
a job site with
various IoT sensors
and then streaming that data in
real-time through
the lifetime of the project.
>> The platform actually
gives us physical hotspots
in the building.
They show red areas,
which will drive us to go to
that area and find out
what the problem is.
In a building the size,
we're relying on
our Job Site Insights platform
to monitor the temperature,
humidity, and pressure
in 483 units.
That's something that would
normally be done by hand.
>> Our cloud-based information
is more readily available.
It facilitates collaboration,
so we can have
all interested parties with
the right information
at the right time.
>> By gathering data from
sensors instead of people,
we can focus those people on
more effective and
efficient things
that drive value
back to our owner.
>> PCL spends $200 to $300
million a year on energy.
With Jobs Site Insights
we anticipate
15 percent to 20 percent savings
just in fuel and
electricity costs.
>> We have a significant
opportunity to change
the face of construction through
the use of digital technology.
Without the cloud, we
would not have been able
to do the things that
we're doing today.
As we continue to drive
along our digital journey,
Microsoft's going to
be a critical partner
for us in our evolution.