Dalux SiteWalk and European BIM leadership: practical lessons for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Dalux claims European BIM leadership after a decade of 40%+ annual growth, with its platform now on 7,800 UK projects, 1.7 million active accounts across Europe and 2024 revenues of about US $100m, all achieved debt-free and without external investment. Its SiteWalk tool in Dalux Field uses helmet-mounted 360° cameras to map images directly onto BIM models, enabling weekly visual progress tracking, integrated quality checklists and ITPs, and remote verification of works on projects such as Great Ormond Street Hospital. Usage has tripled in a year to over one million 360° images captured monthly across 38 countries, with contractors like Sisk reporting reduced reliance on third-party survey providers and wider rollout to smaller sites.
Technical Brief
- SiteWalk uses helmet-mounted 360° cameras, with images auto-registered onto the federated BIM model in Dalux Field.
- Visual records are captured along walking routes, enabling corridor-by-corridor comparison of planned versus as-built conditions.
- Reality capture is embedded into structured workflows for safety management, approvals, quality inspections and hold points.
- Integrated checklists and inspection and test plans (ITPs) are linked directly to the 360° imagery for evidence-based sign-off.
- Reduced reliance on third-party survey or capture providers shifts cost and programme control back to main contractors.
Our Take
Within our several Software stories, Dalux is one of the few with a footprint spanning 38 countries and 55 offices, signalling that construction-focused BIM tools are starting to reach the same geographic scale as mainstream enterprise SaaS rather than remaining niche project add‑ons.
The reported 40%+ annual growth rate to around US$100 million revenue suggests Dalux is approaching the size where UK and EU contractors such as Sisk, Willmott Dixon and Wates may start rationalising overlapping point solutions (e.g. separate 360° capture or progress-tracking tools) in favour of a single platform to simplify data governance.
Tripling SiteWalk usage and capturing over a million 360° images per month across Europe and the Nordics implies that site-based QA, claims evidence and as‑built verification workflows are rapidly becoming data-heavy; contractors in the UK, Ireland and Germany will need more robust storage, bandwidth and model-management practices than traditional document control systems provide.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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