Breaking Down Silos, Building Efficiency: LeapThought’s FULCRUMHQ Integrated Digital Delivery Platform Reshapes Construction

By Alan Shum, Director, Research & Development
By Patrick Harkins, VP, Software Engineering
By Leonardo Machado, VP, Computational Engineering
By Jennifer Lin, Solutions Architect – AWS

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For government and commercial asset owners, managing large construction portfolios is fraught with risks and challenges. When these portfolios operate in silos—where project-specific information is isolated across teams and systems—owners miss critical opportunities to optimize their investments. Fragmented data limits their ability to standardize best practices, ensure compliance, reduce costs and promote sustainability.

But what if this disconnected approach could be transformed? LeapThought’s FULCRUMHQ, powered by AWS, is doing just that—integrating data across entire portfolios and using advanced cloud technologies to help asset owners drive greater efficiencies, ensure regulatory compliance, and promote sustainable operations.

The Risk of Silos: Missed Opportunities and Significant Losses

When data is confined to individual projects, asset owners face substantial risks. According to Ratnakar Garikipati, CEO and Chair of LeapThought, “Government and commercial asset owners and operators face economic losses when their large construction portfolios operate in silos.”

This not only leads to missed opportunities for efficiency but also results in serious risks, including:

• Cost overruns and delays due to unforeseen challenges such as site conditions, supply chain disruptions, or labor shortages. Without the ability to share information across projects, inefficient resource allocation and quality issues arise, increasing the chances of rework and delays.
• Regulatory compliance issues can steam from complex and evolving regulations. Without a united platform to proactively monitor compliance, asset owners risk fines, penalties, and delays that disrupt project timelines and damage reputations.
• Environmental impacts such as habitat destruction, pollution, and resource depletion, which could lead to public backlash, legal challenges, and further reputational damage. These risks can only be addressed by leveraging integrated data across the project lifecycle.

Beyond these immediate risks, asset owners also miss the potential for standardization and repeatability, which are crucial to improving efficiency and lowering costs across their portfolios. By centralizing project data, owners can identify and replicate best practices, ensuring consistent quality and performance across all projects.

Data-Driven Collaboration and Intelligence with FULCRUMHQ

LeapThought’s FULCRUMHQ addresses the persistent silos that have long hindered construction management. The platform’s cloud-native architecture, powered by AWS, consolidates all project data into a centralized environment, enabling seamless collaboration among project teams, ensuring easier compliance, and accelerating decision-making processes. By bringing together disparate data sources, FULCRUMHQ enhances visibility and encourages cross-functional teamwork, eliminating barriers to information flow.

What truly distinguishes FULCRUMHQ is its ability to democratize across to Building Information Modeling (BIM). This empowers all project stakeholders—from owners and consultants to subcontractors and regulatory bodies—to leverage BIM’s rich, data-driven insights without the need for costly software licenses or specialized hardware.

Beyond accessibility, FULCRUMHQ enriches this data by infusing intelligence through machine-driven analyses, automated validations, and advanced simulations. It performs complex geometrical operations and provides complementary evidence of results, offering actionable insights that enhance project design, execution, and maintenance. This capability allows users to visualize project outcomes more accurately, anticipate issues before they arise, and make informed, data-backed decisions that optimize project timelines, budgets, and quality.

Through this infusion of intelligence, FULCRUMHQ transforms static data into dynamic, actionable intelligence, giving stakeholders the tools they need to drive project success and improve long-term asset management.

As Garikipati notes, “It’s not just about that one project—it’s about building a data ecosystem that benefits future projects.” This approach creates a continuous feedback loop, enabling asset owners to design, build, and operate more efficiently over time.

Here are some of the ways FULCRUMHQ transforms asset management:

• Standardization and Repeatability: FULCRUMHQ enables asset owners to identify and replicate best practices across their entire portfolio, reducing costs and improving quality across projects.
• Compliance at Scale: By integrating regulatory and quality checks into the platform, FULCRUMHQ allows asset owners to proactively meet the latest standards and avoid costly penalties.
• Data-Driven Value Maximization: With FULCRUMHQ, asset owners can make informed, data-driven decisions to optimize asset performance, reduce operational costs, and maximize return on investment. This is particularly important in the context of rising material costs and inflation.

Proven Results with LeapThought

FULCRUMHQ is more than a theoretical solution—it’s a proven platform delivering tangible results. The platform manages over $200 billion worth of complex projects worldwide, demonstrating its real-world effectiveness and scalability.

Partnering with LeapThought offers a competitive edge by deploying next-generation machine learning and AI in construction technology, while providing customized solutions tailored to specific workflows and portfolio requirements. FULCRUMHQ is designed as an integrated digital delivery solution for the AECO sector from the ground-up, future-proofing businesses with a platform built for continuous innovation and growth.

FULCRUMHQ has significantly benefited projects across the APAC region and globally, both in public and private sectors. The integration of streamlined collaboration and digital delivery techniques has led to:

• Up to 65% Reduction in Rework: By improving data accessibility and accuracy, project rework has been substantially reduced.
• 50% Less Time on Design Coordination and Approvals: Enhanced data flow and decision-making processes have halved the time required for design coordination.
• 20% Improvement in As-Built Verification: Increased data precision has improved the quality and speed of as-built verifications.

For example, JTC Corporation, an industrial master planner and developer in Singapore, uses LeapThought’s FULCRUMHQ to manage the digital project delivery of development projects. JTC partnered with LeapThought to develop OPTIMUS v2.0, JTC’s integrated digital delivery platform for the built environment. FULCRUMHQ is the engine of OPTIMUS v2.0, and connects JTC with consultants, contractors, and suppliers for seamless collaboration, traceability, and compliance across the entire project lifecycle. It facilitates real-time collaboration with secure access for over 2,000 users, standardizes processes for efficiency, and provides comprehensive dashboards for deep project insights.

AWS Cloud Infrastructure: Powering the Future of Asset Management

FULCRUMHQ utilizes GPU-based workloads to handle complex and large-scale data computations that are typical in the construction sector. GPUs are particularly effective for tasks requiring high levels of parallel processing power, such as:

• Real-time Data Processing: Managing real-time data ingestion and processing from multiple sources across construction sites, facilitating immediate data analysis, and response without lag.
• Complex Geometrical Calculations: Performing intricate geometrical calculations necessary for advanced modeling and simulation, essential for constructing accurate digital replicas of physical infrastructures.

Machine learning algorithms integrated into FULCRUMHQ analyze historical and real-time data to predict trends, potential delays, or cost overruns, allowing for proactive project management:

• Predictive Maintenance: Using historical data, FULCRUMHQ predicts when and where maintenance should be performed, thus preventing unexpected failures and extending the lifespan of critical infrastructure components.
• Automated Compliance and Quality Checks: Machine learning models are trained to recognize patterns that may indicate deviations from compliance standards or potential quality issues, triggering alerts for human intervention.

FULCRUMHQ’s success in transforming asset management is underpinned by AWS’s cloud infrastructure. AWS provides the scalability, security, and computational power necessary for handling large amounts of project data, from multiple projects across geographies.

Some of the key AWS services powering FULCRUMHQ include:

• Amazon S3: Centralized, secure storage for all BIM models and project data.
• AWS Fargate and Containers: Serverless, GPU-based, high-performance compute workloads allow for dynamic auto-scaling based on real-time demand. Continuous automated deployment of new features and improvements, ensuring the platform evolves with the needs of asset owners.
• Amazon Bedrock: FULCRUMHQ integrates AI models via Amazon Bedrock, allowing users to interact with BIM data using natural language, enhancing user experience, and increasing engagement with project data.
• Amazon RDS: Ensures consistent platform performance, especially during peak usage, enabling asset owners to access data and insights when they need them the most.

A New Era of Data-Driven Management

The future of data management for infrastructure and large-scale construction lies in connected, data-driven platforms like FULCRUMHQ. By uniting project data, leveraging advanced machine learning, and integrating with AWS’s powerful cloud services, FULCRUMHQ enables asset owners to design smarter, build faster, and operate more efficiently.

As Garikipati says, “There’s a lot more we do for asset owners and operators than just a project. We create a system that continuously improves, helping owners get more out of every investment they make.”

To experience the power of FULCRUMHQ for your organization, visit the AWS Marketplace or contact the LeapThought team for a consultation.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the following members of LeapThought for their close collaboration and guidance through the various stages of this blog’s journey:

• Preetham Garikipati, Director, Engineering Research & Partnerships
• Jeffrey Avina, Director, Vice Chair
• Jackie Young, VP, Marketing & Growth

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