Digitalization Check
Your digitalization level in three minutes
Seven questions about your day-to-day work, three key figures for your company. You get your digitalization level right away, the savings potential in working days per year and a comparison with other offices and companies that have taken the check.
What the Digitalization Check measures
The check assesses six areas of construction supervision: photo documentation, defect management, daily reports, BIM during execution, data protection and how well your IT systems work together. Each answer is scored, and the scores add up to your digitalization level. From the frequency of your site inspections and three key figures, it also calculates how many working days per year you can win back with digital documentation. We store answers and key figures without any personal reference, which is how the comparison values grow. We use your email address only if you choose to have the result sent to you.
Seven questions about your day-to-day work
For each question, choose the answer that comes closest to your everyday practice. There are no wrong answers, only a current state.
Three key figures for the savings potential
The starting values are the median of the participants so far. Set your own.
The savings potential is a model calculation using experience values from Open Experience. It is an estimate and no promise. The method is explained below the result.
Your result
Once all seven questions are answered, your result appears here.
Digitalization level
You work digitally and in a connected way in almost every area. The next step is end-to-end 360° documentation and analysis across projects.
The key areas run digitally. Gaps remain where systems do not talk to each other or reports are still written by hand.
Some areas are digital, others run the way they did ten years ago. That is exactly where the largest savings potential lies.
Photos in folders, defects in Excel, reports in Word: many offices and companies still work this way today. The first digital step brings the most here.
Savings potential per year, working days
- Post-processing photo documentation
- Recording defects, writing notices, tracking deadlines
- Writing daily reports
Where you can start
- Photo documentation: Construction Photos locates every image on the plan and makes it easy to find again; DIGIBAU 360 captures the complete state of the site during the walk. Go to Construction Photos
- Defect management: Construction Defects records the defect on the spot, tracks deadlines and generates the formal defect notice and the acceptance report from the same data. Go to Construction Defects
- Daily reports: Construction Diary records the daily report on a mobile device, pulls in weather data automatically and links the day's photos. Go to Construction Diary
- BIM during execution: Construction Defects can take the project structure from the BIM or IFC model on request. That way the model remains the reference during execution as well. BIM in Construction Defects
- Data protection: Open Experience processes data in compliance with the GDPR, on servers in Germany and with daily backups. Go to the FAQ
- IT integration: Open Experience works with open standards such as IFC and offers API access and the Microsoft Teams integration as options. Go to the partner solutions
Method: sites × site walks per week × 45 working weeks × duration gives your hours on site. Depending on how you document with photos, follow-up work comes after that, around 40 percent of the time on site with a phone and folders. Defects: 0.55 per square meter and year, up to 3.7 minutes of extra effort per defect compared with a professional solution. Daily reports: one report per site walk, up to 12 minutes of extra effort. A working day counts as 8 hours.
How the check calculates
Three numbers, three methods. All factors are open so that you can put the result into perspective.
- Digitalization levelSix questions give 0 to 10 points per answer, 56 at most in total. The fewer points, the more digital. The level is the distance to the maximum score in percent. The question about how often you inspect the site counts only toward the savings potential.
- ComparisonThe comparison is based on the participants who have taken this check so far, excluding test entries and implausible inputs. It shows how many of them have more points than you. The comparison values grow with every new evaluation.
- Savings potentialA model calculation using your three key figures and experience values from Open Experience: follow-up work per hour on site, extra effort per defect and per daily report compared with a professional solution. It shows the order of magnitude and the biggest lever; it is no promise.
Frequently asked questions
What happens to my data?
We store your answers and key figures without your name, address or contact details; they feed into the comparison values. We use your email address only to send you the result. Only if you would like to discuss the result with us does your request go to our sales team in Karlsruhe, together with your name and phone number.
How long does the check take?
About three minutes: seven questions with three to six answers each and three sliders for your key figures. The result appears on the page immediately.
Where do the comparison values come from?
From the same check that Open Experience has offered on its website for years. Test entries and implausible inputs have been removed. Almost three quarters of participants take photos with a phone and file them in folders, a good half keep defects in Excel and Word, and more than two thirds write daily reports in Word or on paper.
How reliable is the savings potential?
It is a model calculation using your key figures and experience values from Open Experience; it is no promise. It shows the order of magnitude and where the biggest lever lies. In the demo we recalculate your case with your real numbers.
Can I take the check more than once?
Yes. Change an answer or a key figure and the page recalculates immediately. That also shows you what a single step, such as construction software for photos, changes in the result. The link in the result email opens your saved state again at any time.
You know where you stand. The next step takes 45 minutes.
In the demo we show you, on your own project, how the areas with the most points run digitally.