Vault Solutions | Volumetric Calculations

Casestudy: Transforming Groundworks Management with Precision: How Vault Streamlined Volumetric Calculations for a Major Infrastructure Project

By combining the core features of Vault, AsBuilt empowers construction professionals with flexible, tailored solutions that address the real-world challenges of project and asset management.

Vault brings together powerful tools in a single, intuitive platform. Features like permission-based access, smart document workflows, and geospatial data integration can be configured to meet the specific needs of any project—ensuring teams stay aligned, compliant, and in control from design to handover. With Vault, construction management becomes more transparent, efficient, and adaptable to the complexities of the built environment.

Client: Regional Civil Construction Company
Project Type: Large-scale infrastructure development
Scope: Extensive earthworks and site preparation 

A regional construction firm undertaking a major infrastructure project faced the complex challenge of managing and monitoring extensive groundworks, including excavation, grading, and site preparation over a vast area. Accurate volume calculation, real-time progress tracking, and clear communication with stakeholders were critical to staying on schedule and within budget.

To address these needs, the company deployed asBuilt’s Vault platform, leveraging its powerful geospatial and document management capabilities. Drones were used to capture high-resolution aerial surveys of the site at regular intervals. These surveys were processed and seamlessly integrated into Vault, where they could be overlaid onto existing site data and compared against planned earthworks models.

Vault’s advanced tools enabled the project team to:

• Monitor soil movement and calculate cut and fill volumes with high precision

• Visualise progress over time using chronological aerial imagery

• Generate clear, data-backed reports for internal reviews and client updates

• Identify discrepancies early, allowing for timely adjustments to the construction schedule

Thanks to Vault’s centralised platform, data from aerial surveys, site measurements, and engineering models could be synchronised and shared across teams, eliminating silos and reducing the risk of miscommunication. This helped the construction company optimise resource use, improve compliance reporting, and deliver accurate forecasting to project stakeholders.

By integrating drone data with Vault’s core functionality, the company transformed a traditionally manual and error-prone process, setting a new standard for efficiency and precision in groundworks management.