Construction and Real Estate Management

Visual Intelligence for the entire AEC value chain and resilient asset management.

Transformation through visual collaboration

In 2026, the construction and real estate sector faces a historic test. Rising cost pressure, regulatory requirements such as the EU AI Act and a massive shortage of skilled workers call for new approaches to project delivery. DEON provides the answer as a Holistic Intelligence Hub. The platform creates a persistent, visual working environment that goes far beyond conventional whiteboarding. Even without AI integration, DEON brings BIM models, web apps and complex document structures together seamlessly in a single source of truth. With the new AI functions, DEON becomes the central nervous system of your projects: through deep grounding in Microsoft 365 and the Microsoft Graph, the AI delivers precise answers based on your specific project data, while visual references and conversation branching ensure full transparency and confidence in decisions.

Areas of application for DEON in the construction and real estate industry

The fields of application for DEON extend across the entire life cycle of a property and transform the way professionals master complex data sets. In an industry traditionally fragmented by data silos, DEON provides the necessary visual bracket for maximum efficiency.

Planning & Design (AEC): Central coordination of BIM data from Revit and Navisworks. Generative design is optimized through visual variant comparison and AI-assisted analyses regarding cost and ESG criteria.
Construction execution & Project control: Building a seamless documentation structure for claim management. Project managers link construction protocols, e‑mails and live camera feeds on an interactive timeline to address change order claims securely.
Asset- & Portfolio Management: Strategic oversight of real estate holdings through integration of ERP systems and market data. The AI supports identification of risks and the creation of CSRD-compliant sustainability reports.
Facility Management: Use of DEON as an interactive dashboard for the digital twin. Live data from building management systems are visualized and utilized by predictive maintenance algorithms to reduce operating costs.
Collaborative Engineering Workshops: Disparate sources such as CAD screenshots, Excel lists and web applications are aggregated in real time to solve technical problems across locations in an infinite workspace.
AI-powered knowledge management: Semantic queries over the entire project archive enable new employees a quick onboarding, while experienced engineers delegate routine tasks to the AI through automated structuring.

Through model sovereignty and connection to local or global AI endpoints, you secure your intellectual property and simultaneously meet the highest compliance standards.

Use Cases

Large Project Management & Claim Management

Challenge

Major construction projects in 2026 are facing a critical challenge: claim management. Supplementary claims often arise due to minimal deviations, delays in the supply chain, or short-term plan changes that need to be documented over the years.

However, the evidence for decisions is usually fragmented across thousands of SharePoint folders, Outlook emails, and informal Teams chats. When it comes to negotiations, project managers often lack a solid foundation to defend against claims or enforce their own demands.

This loss of context between different trades and project phases leads to massive financial risks and significantly jeopardizes the already tight margins in the construction sector, as information has to be laboriously compiled manually.

Solution

Here DEON acts as a strategic anchor point. Thanks to the deep integration of Microsoft Copilot , the project manager uses the AI as a highly efficient search engine for the entire Microsoft Graph. For requests such as „Find all correspondence on material delays for trade X from Q3“, the AI does not just deliver text answers but pulls the original documents directly into the workspace as native elements.

Visual Evidence Chains

The key differentiating feature is the visual preparation on a persistent Timeline:

E-mails are spatially and temporally linked
Protocol notes are connected with construction site photos
A seamless, visual evidence chain is created

The documentation can be presented directly on the board during negotiations. Since DEON serves as an interactive surface, all participants can access the verified sources in real-time.

This reduces legal risks and secures profitability through a fact‑based argumentative basis that remains transparent for all stakeholders. Those who do not plan, plan their failure – those who plan visually with AI secure their claims.

Integrated BIM Coordination & Variant Planning

Challenge

In the planning phase of AEC projects, the separation of creative design and technical simulation often leads to a Silo paradox. Architects, structural engineers and specialist planners work in isolated software environments and exchange data via static exports, which leads to a gradual loss of information.

If generative design also delivers hundreds of design variants, teams quickly lose track:

Budget implications remain unclear
Material efficiency cannot be compared
Sustainability goals become difficult to measure

The coordination of these data volumes is error-prone; a large part of the later rework on the construction site can be attributed to a lack of coordination in this early phase. There is a lack of a common space that visually combines live data and AI analyses.

Solution

Within DEON, these silos are broken up by embedding live content and web apps such as Revit or Navisworks seamlessly in the workspace. With conversation branching , teams can explore different planning scenarios in parallel with the AI without losing the main context.

Parallel Scenario Analysis

While one discussion thread examines the cost optimization of a reinforced concrete construction, another branch simultaneously analyzes the sustainability of wood hybrid alternatives. The DEON AI kernel understands the semantic meaning of the visual arrangement and establishes references between floor plans, budget tables, and fire safety regulations.

Visual grounding lets you jump straight to the exact spot in the model or specification with a single click. This radically speeds up decision-making and reduces planning errors, because all stakeholders work on an always up-to-date, interactive data basis.

This turns variant planning from a complex burden into a strategic competitive advantage.

Facility Management & Digital Twin

Challenge

After handover, a massive data loss often occurs. The valuable information from the construction phase is often passed on to facility management only as unstructured documentation.

In operational management, this leads to high costs, as technicians waste time searching for system data or maintenance histories. At the same time, there is a lack of an integrated view of live data from the building control technology in the context of the structural reality.

Reactive instead of proactive management

Without an intuitive visual interface, the potential of Smart Buildings remains untapped:

Anomalies are only noticed when damage occurs
Inefficient energy consumption remains undetected
Costly failures could have been avoided

The management of real estate portfolios thus becomes a reactive rather than proactive task.

Solution

DEON transforms building operations by acting as an interactive interface for the digital twin . Via the REST API, live data from HVAC systems and sensors is visualized directly in the workspace.

Predictive Maintenance

Facility Manager use DEON as a dashboard for Predictive Maintenance: The AI analyzes data streams and suggests measures before failures occur. Engineers can drag technical drawings or photos of equipment onto the board and ask DAIA:

Explain the structure
Identify spare parts from embedded catalogs
Visualize maintenance histories

Visual grounding ensures that every piece of information is directly linked to the corresponding manual or BIM model. This eliminates search times and significantly extends the lifespan of the infrastructure.

DEON becomes a persistent knowledge repository throughout the entire lifecycle, providing a valid decision-making basis for future renovations and ensuring the long-term preservation of the asset's value.

ESG Management & Portfolio Optimization

Challenge

The real estate industry will be under enormous regulatory pressure in 2026 due to CSRD reporting and the EU AI Act. Asset managers must provide seamless proof of ESG compliance for their portfolios while optimizing performance in a volatile market environment.

Trapped Data

The required data is, however, usually trapped in isolated systems:

ERP software with fragmented information
Excel lists without central management
External databases without integration

The manual aggregation for investor reports is extremely time‑consuming and error‑prone. Without an integrated, audit‑proof data strategy companies risk not only sanctions but also the emergence of “Stranded Assets”, as ecological risks cannot be identified and addressed in time.

There is a lack of strategic overview that brings together data and regulatory requirements.

Solution

With DEON as a strategic control center, portfolio management becomes an automated and intuitively manageable process. Asset managers channel all data streams into a Holistic Intelligence Hub together.

Automated ESG Compliance

The AI actively supports the extraction of ESG metrics from thousands of documents and validates them against current thresholds. Over the Graph Chat complex dependencies are visualized:

Affected properties are color-coded
Profitability calculations are directly linked
Portfolio performance is displayed interactively

Thanks to the Model Sovereignty control over sensitive financial data is maintained, while results can be exported into audit-proof reports without media breaks.

This ensures compliance, accelerates transaction decisions and enables proactive value appreciation of the real estate portfolio through absolute data transparency. Hope is not a strategy – a visualized plan in DEON, however, is.