Stavanger Hospital Uses 3D Scanning and AI Throughout the Entire Construction Period

The new University Hospital in Stavanger, one of the biggest public construction projects in Scandinavia, adopted 3D scanning and AI technology to track work quality and avoid costly mistakes. In Stavanger, the fourth largest city in Norway, located about 300km from Oslo, the construction of the new university hospital is going at full speed. Hundreds of people work on the project, which covers 130,000 sq m. To closely keep track of the massive project, the developer SUS2023 has chosen to use 3D scanning and Artificial Intelligence throughout the entire construction period. Instead of manual inspections that can take days, or even weeks, everything is checked digitally and with millimetre accuracy. A single person digitises the job site and the entire team can have access to the results. To do so, the team uses a tech solution developed by Imerso, a start-up company based in Oslo. After the SUS2023 team scans the construction site, Imerso’s platform compares the laser scans against the BIM plans and immediately reports problematic work deviations.