Case Study
IHP: The Hospital Schedule That Stopped Waiting for Weekly Guesswork
Automated progress evidence helped planners protect the critical path on the Royal Bournemouth Hospital extension.
The breakthrough was not a clever forecast alone; it was giving planners and subcontractors the same evidence before the weekly conversation began.
A roughly £200 million, 24,000-square-metre hospital extension required many trades and stakeholders to coordinate without losing the critical path.
Hospital construction is a relay race where dozens of runners share the same narrow corridor. If one trade is late, another may be standing there with tools and nowhere to work. On IHP's Royal Bournemouth project, planners used Buildots data to enter weekly meetings with a picture of actual completion rather than a stack of manually assembled updates.
AI-based site capture and progress comparison gave weekly planning meetings a shared view of actual status, forecast risk, and trade completion.
For project leaders, the pattern is practical: automate collection, but keep the meeting for judgment and commitments. Use AI to expose the variance; use people to agree recovery actions. The time and schedule outcomes are reported by Buildots and IHP, so the page labels them as reported rather than independently verified.