Construction and Real Estate Management
Visual Intelligence for the entire AEC value chain and resilient asset management.
Introduction
Transformation through visual collaboration
The construction and real estate sector faces a historic challenge in 2026. Increasing cost pressure, regulatory requirements such as the EU AI Act, and a massive shortage of skilled workers demand new approaches in project management.DEON provides the answer as a Holistic Intelligence Hub. The platform creates a persistent, visual work environment that goes far beyond traditional whiteboarding. Even without AI integration, DEON enables the seamless integration of BIM models, web apps, and complex document structures in a single Single Source of Truth. With the new AI features, DEON becomes the central nervous system of your projects: Through deep Grounding in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Graph, the AI delivers precise answers based on your specific project data, while visual references and conversational branching ensure absolute transparency and decision-making certainty.
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-supported analyses with regard to costs and ESG criteria.
- Construction & Project Management: Establishing a seamless documentation structure for claim management. Project managers link construction protocols, emails, and live camera feeds on an interactive timeline to counter supplementary claims in a legally secure manner.
- Asset & Portfolio Management: Strategic monitoring of property portfolios through the integration of ERP systems and market data. The AI supports the identification of risks and the creation of CSRD-compliant sustainability reports.
- Facility Management: Utilizing DEON as an interactive dashboard for the Digital Twin. Live data from building management systems is visualized and used by Predictive Maintenance algorithms to reduce operating costs.
- Collaborative Engineering Workshops: Disparate sources like CAD screenshots, Excel lists, and web applications are aggregated in real-time to solve technical problems across locations in an infinite workspace.
- AI-supported Knowledge Management: Semantic queries across the entire project archive enable new employees to quickly get up to speed, while experienced engineers delegate routine tasks to 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
DEON serves as a strategic anchor point. Through the deep integration of Microsoft Copilot, the project manager uses AI as a highly efficient search engine for the entire Microsoft Graph. In response to queries like "Find all correspondence related to material delays at trade X from Q3," the AI not only provides text answers but also directly incorporates the original documents as native elements into the Workspace.
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 argumentation basis that remains transparent for all stakeholders.Those who don't 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, resulting in 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 down by seamlessly integrating live content and web apps like Revit or Navisworks into the workspace. Using the conversation branching feature, teams can explore different planning scenarios in parallel with 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 allows users to instantly jump to the exact location in the model or specification with a single mouse click. This radically accelerates decision-making processes and reduces planning errors, as all stakeholders work on a constantly updated, 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. Live data from HVAC systems and sensors are visualized directly in the Workspace via the REST API.
Predictive Maintenance
Facility Managers 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 systems onto the board and ask DAIA to:
- 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 prone to errors. Without an integrated, audit-proof data strategy, companies risk not only sanctions but also the emergence of “Stranded Assets”, as ecological risks are not identified and addressed in a timely manner.
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 bring together all data streams in a Holistic Intelligence Hub.
Automated ESG Compliance
The AI actively supports the extraction of ESG key figures from thousands of documents and validates them against current limit values. Complex dependencies are visualized via the Graph Chat:
- 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 to audit-proof reports without media disruption.
This ensures compliance, accelerates transaction decisions, and enables proactive value enhancement of the real estate portfolio through absolute data transparency. Hope is not a strategy – a visualized plan in DEON is.