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Industrial process plant at night, piping racks and distillation columns lit by work lights

Built by a controls practitioner, not a software company

Nothing gets paid ahead of the field.

VissRad is a Suite of Interactive Smart Tools for Project Delivery — project controls, commissioning, work packaging and finance for industrial capital projects — where progress, cost, certification and payment stay tied to one another instead of drifting apart in eleven spreadsheets.

24 modules in 5 packs Primavera P6 import Earned value & EAC forecasting Power BI star-schema exports SQLite or PostgreSQL Desktop, on-prem or cloud

Narrated overview

Fifteen minutes on what the suite does.

A narrated walk through the applications, the chain from field quantity to certified payment, and how Link keeps the numbers agreeing. Recorded, so you can watch it before deciding whether a live walkthrough is worth your time.

Fifteen minutes, 1080p, with narration. Recorded at twenty-two modules; VissRadSHE, VissRad Markup and the VissRadEST Bid Desk were added afterwards and are in the browser demo. Other platforms in the comparison are shown as Platform A to I.

The problem

Projects don't fail on arithmetic. They fail on disconnection.

Every discipline keeps its own version of the truth. The schedule says one thing, the field says another, the cost report is a month behind, and the invoice gets approved because nobody could contradict it in time.

Progress is claimed, not verified

Subcontractor claims arrive as a percentage on a cover sheet. Without rule-of-credit steps and shift-level quantities behind them, there is no defensible number to argue with.

Cost lives outside the system

Commitments sit in procurement, actuals sit in finance, and the forecast sits in a workbook on one engineer's laptop. Reconciling them is a monthly archaeology exercise.

Turnover is a separate universe

Systemisation, ITRs, punch and certificates are managed apart from construction progress — so completion status never informs retention, billing or the forecast.

The chain

Every number holds a receipt from the one before it.

Progress is not a percentage somebody typed. It is a quantity, weighted by rule of credit, signed onto a certificate, and only then allowed to move money. VissRad keeps that custody chain intact across four applications.

Field quantity

A shift entry records what was actually installed — spools, welds, terminations — against the subsystem that owns the scope.

Evidence · shift record

Weighted progress

Rule-of-credit steps convert the quantity into earned progress. The earned-value picture updates on entry, not at month end.

Evidence · rule of credit

Certificate

MCC, RFCC and RFSU gates refuse to advance while check sheets or category A punch items remain open against the subsystem.

Evidence · signed gate

Payment

A claim is checked against certified field quantities before approval. Retention releases on the certificate, and the cost report already knows.

Withheld unless verified

The rule: a link cannot be claimed without the one behind it — which is why an overclaim surfaces in the approval queue rather than in a reconciliation three months later.

What integration buys you

An eight-point overclaim, caught before the cheque.

A subcontractor submits a progress claim at 62% complete. In VissRadPCS the same scope is carrying 54% of field-certified progress, built from weighted rule-of-credit steps and shift-by-shift quantity entries.

Because VissRadARAP verifies claims against PCS field data through the Link exchange layer, the eight-point gap surfaces in the approval queue instead of after payment — with the certified evidence attached.

Progress claim verification Flagged
Subcontractor claim 62.0%
Field-certified progress 54.0%
Variance 8.0 pts
Overclaim withheld $152,522 before payment release

Scenario from the VissRad Suite demonstration dataset.

Close-up of an industrial gate valve handwheel and flanged carbon steel piping in the rain

A certificate is not paperwork. It is the moment money is allowed to move.

VissRad design principle

The suite

Five packs, twenty-four modules. One record of the project.

Each application is installed, licensed and run on its own — a cost engineer never has to open the payables system to do their job. They exchange business documents through Link, so the numbers agree. The applications are grouped into five packs by the work they cover; start with one pack, or one module, and add the rest when it earns its place.

Pack 1

Plan and Estimate

From the FEED gate to a priced, scheduled bid. In detail

VissRadFEED

FEED tracking

Front-end engineering design through the sanction gates: G0 to G3 gate readiness scoring, FEED deliverables against a 21-milestone skeleton, an optioneering study register, estimate basis by AACE class, a three-method duration benchmark and the pre-FID risk register.

G0–G3 readinessAACE classOptioneering

VissRadEST

Estimating

Discipline takeoff and cost estimating for piping, equipment, engineering and construction scope. Three methods sit side by side per discipline — parametric, known quantity and detailed takeoff — and only the selected one feeds the rollup to total installed cost. Quantities can be measured on the PDF drawing. A register keeps working and issued estimates, and the Bid Desk indexes the bid set, counts sizes, tags and symbols, and checks for missing sheets and spec sections.

3 methodsAACE classBid Desk

VissRadSCH

Scheduling and analysis

Native CPM schedule editor with P6 XER and MS Project export, plus analysis over XER, XML, CSV and XLSX sources, feeding activity structure and dates into progress, packaging and 4D sequencing. S-curve, earned value, critical path, float distribution and schedule quality in one place, with a CPM check, DCMA 14-point assessment, baselines, version comparison with half-step delay analysis, what-if scenarios, Monte Carlo risk and resource levelling.

P6 importEarned valueFloat

VissRadPreCon

Preconstruction

Making a sanctioned project buildable: constructability reviews, contracting strategy and bid packages, long-lead procurement with float to need-by, craft labour and logistics, permits, and a mobilisation readiness case. Bids are levelled side by side and, on VissRad Server, taken in through a bidder portal.

Bid packagesLong-lead floatMobilisation

VissRadTAR

Turnaround estimating

Module-driven turnaround estimating. Answer a short wizard for each scope item and the module returns the tasks, crew hours, equipment, logic and material — then the worklist rolls into an event fragnet, a manpower histogram and a material take-off, and goes out to Excel, P6 or SAP.

330 modulesMaterial take-offP6 / SAP export

VissRad Planner

Capital work planning

Steps out the work of a capital project before it goes into the schedule. Each work item is answered from a module and returns its work steps, crew sizes, craft hours, equipment and materials; work items are sequenced on the project's working calendar, and the plan loads into the Schedule Editor, P6 or Microsoft Project.

Work stepsCrew loadingP6 XER load

Pack 2

Control

Progress, cost, change and payment held to one record. In detail

VissRadPCS

Project controls

Completions, field progress, earned value, cost control and forecasting for one project per file. Rule-of-credit progress, shift entry, PF and CPI, five EAC methods and a contingency drawdown register.

Earned valueP6 importCost report

VissRadCost

Cost management

A cost breakdown structure with a locked original budget, commitments in any currency, an actuals ledger, change management, T&M tickets, pay applications, forecasting, earned value, FX and cost risk, and reports — twelve views over one cost engine.

CBSChange controlCash flow

VissRadChange

Change management

Trends, change notices, change orders and claims with an estimate build-up, approval by delegation of authority and a recorded decision, fed by RFIs and design changes and passed to VissRadPCS for incorporation. Management of change runs alongside.

Delegation of authorityChange ordersMOC

VissRadERP

Finance core — FI + CO

General ledger, accounts payable and receivable, cost centre accounting and internal orders, driven by a keyboard-first transaction-code command bar with period control, carry-forward and reconciliation.

GL / AP / ARControllingPeriod close

VissRadARAP

Payables & receivables

Invoice intake and coding, three-way PO/receipt/invoice matching, progress-claim verification against field data, a role-based approval queue, retention withheld and released on certificate, payment runs and supplier prequalification.

Three-way matchRetentionAging

Pack 3

Engineer and Procure

Deliverables, documents, questions and materials, with VissRad Markup on every drawing. In detail

VissRadDEng

Detailed engineering

Engineering to IFC: a deliverable register by revision and issue code from IFR through IFA, IFD and IFC to AB, man-hour progress by rule of credit, review and transmittal cycles, submittals against specification sections through sequential review, the project correspondence register, MTO quantity growth, changes and TQs, and EWP handover to the field.

Issue codesSubmittalsEWP handover

VissRadProCure

Procurement and material management

The supply chain from take-off to the crew: requisitions raised from the VissRadDEng MTO and VissRadPreCon long-lead items, enquiries and weighted bid tabulation, purchase orders approved by delegation of authority, expediting against the required-on-site date, vendor documents, inspection and release, logistics, receiving with OS&D, site stock reserved and issued to VissRadAWP IWPs with heat-number traceability, and a supplier score and grade calculated from the orders.

Bid tabulationExpeditingMaterial control

VissRadRFI

Requests for information, FEED to handover

RFIs with a ball in court and a due date, raised at every stage from FEED through SU&C and handover from the record the question is about. Each RFI keeps its own letters: notices of impact, reminders and responses under cover letter. An RFI with impact asks VissRadDEng for a design change.

Ball in courtRFI lettersAgeing

Pack 4

Execute

Work packages, worksteps, safety and sequence in the field. In detail

VissRadAWP

Advanced work packaging

The full CWA → CWP → EWP → IWP hierarchy with a constraint matrix, readiness scoring, an IWP release gate, path of construction, look-ahead, meetings with carried-over actions and field progress.

IWP gateConstraintsLookahead

VissRadConstruction

Construction planning & execution

Work packages broken into worksteps from commodity templates, with budget hours from productivity rates and duration from crew size. Everything the plan names is checked against the target P6 project before anything is written, and the plan and the field progress go out as XLSX, XER, P6 XML or through the Job Service. In the field it keeps daily reports, crew timesheets, permits to work and a weekly work plan with percent plan complete; safety records are kept in VissRadSHE.

P6 importPre-flight gateRule of credit

VissRadSHE

Safety, health & environment

Incidents classified by the OSHA recordkeeping questions onto each employer’s 300 log, with the 300A summary and severe-injury report-by times. Observations, scheduled inspections, toolbox talks, the training matrix and corrective actions, alongside spills and releases, hazardous waste and manifests, stormwater, monitoring and permit obligations. Hours and rain come from the daily reports.

OSHA 300 / 300ALeading indicatorsEnvironmental

VissRad4D

Visual sequencing

Pairs one P6, CSV or XLSX schedule with one elevation drawing and paints construction status over time. Planned sequence, progress versus plan and forecast views with SPI, finish variance and an S-curve. No 3D model required; when there is one, VissRad4D opens federated IFC models with clash detection and BCF issues.

No model neededSPIS-curve

Pack 5

Turnover and Operate

Completions, certification and handover into maintenance. In detail

VissRadSU&C

Startup & commissioning

System, subsystem and tag hierarchy with ITR check sheets, punch lists and test packages, driving a gated certificate ladder from RVC through MCC, RFC, SCC and DCC to HOC, with field inspections, rules-based completion packages and a handover dataset.

ITRs & punch6 gatesNavisworks

VissRadCMMS

Maintenance management

Maintenance that starts at turnover. The asset register is built from the SU&C tag register, certificates set asset status, and preservation hands over to operations PMs at RFC — then work requests, work orders with failure codes, preventive maintenance, job plans, backlog, stores and reliability, with printed QR asset labels that open the asset when scanned.

AssetsWork ordersPM plansHandover

Across every pack

Portfolio, reporting and exchange

The view above the packs, the reporting out of them, and the layer that keeps them agreeing. In detail

VissRadPortfolio

Portfolio health

The overview above every other module: stage-gate pipeline health, the cost and forecast position, schedule and earned value, and the risk and readiness exceptions that need a decision this week — across FEED, preconstruction, detailed engineering, execution and commissioning — with planned craft headcount across every project.

Stage gates5 phasesExceptions

VissRadBI

Reporting & exports

Star-schema exports and report packs designed for Power BI modelling, plus read-only ODBC connectivity for ad-hoc analysis. Man-hour loading, earned value and the controls pack read the same facts the applications wrote.

Star schemaPower BIODBC

VissRadAI

Project assistant

Questions about the project answered from the suite’s own records, quoting the RFI, commitment, punch or package numbers it used. Read-only. Includes the VissRad Computer research desk for your own documents, online or offline.

Ask the projectRecord numbersYour key

The exchange layer

VissRad Link

Document exchange

Not an application in its own right — the outbox and inbox layer that carries eleven business document types between the applications, with idempotent resends, a retry ladder and full replay from the hub console.

VissRad4D

Schedule time, painted onto a picture of the job.

Most 4D tools demand a federated model, a modeling team and a license stack before anyone can see the sequence. VissRad4D asks for one schedule and one elevation drawing.

Draw the regions once, map them to activities, and the drawing colors itself by status over time — planned sequence, progress versus plan, and forecast, with SPI, finish variance, an S-curve and an activity register alongside.

  • Takes P6 XER or XML, CSV or XLSX
  • Backdrop elevation drawing, Navisworks viewpoint, or optional live 3D
  • Standalone by design — its own database, no suite install required
Technical line drawing of a plant elevation with translucent red, amber and teal regions marking construction zones by status
Regions colored by construction status — status over time on a single elevation
Darkened industrial project control room at night with monitors and a wall display
Runs on your machine or on your own server — your API key, your files

VissRadAI

Ask questions of your own project record.

A working assistant rather than a chat window. Inside the suite it answers from the modules’ own records — open RFIs and who holds them, commitments against budget, punch by category — and quotes the record numbers so every figure can be checked. For documents outside the suite, point the research desk at a folder of specifications, estimating workbooks, schedules and vendor documents, and it builds a local full-text index that answers with the source chunk cited back to the file.

Switch to online mode for web research with citations, or stay fully offline where network tools are hidden and blocked. It runs Python over your data for the estimating and schedule work that a chat interface cannot do.

  • Indexes PDF, XLSX, DOCX, CSV, XML and XER
  • Connects to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with your own key
  • Deploys as a Windows application or a private hosted server

Deployment

One laptop, one plant network, or your cloud.

The same applications run in all three shapes. Nothing about the architecture forces you into a hosted subscription to get started.

Single machine

Standalone

SQLite databases per application, with Link running over a watched folder or a same-machine direct exchange. Suitable for one estimator or one controls engineer.

On premises

Plant network

PostgreSQL behind the Link hub, with an authenticated REST transport across the site network. Data never leaves your environment.

Cloud

Hosted

Managed PostgreSQL with a replicated Link hub behind TLS, for joint ventures and multi-office teams working the same capital project. Named sign-in with project roles, shared photos and drawings, e-mail digests and reply links, owner sign-off and bidder links, and an offline copy on the device.

What VissRad does not claim

Primavera P6 is a file-based import, not a live two-way integration. Payment files are generated in NACHA and ISO 20022 formats but are not bank-certified for transmission. Live 3D model translation depends on your own Autodesk platform entitlements. Clash detection works on the IFC geometry VissRad4D draws in the browser; it does not align models or apply rules beyond clearance. We would rather tell you this on the website than in month three.

Built by practitioners

VissRad comes out of the estimating workbook, not a product roadmap.

VissRad is built by Pennington Group Associates, a Houston practice delivering data driven project management and controls. Every screen exists because a live capital project needed it — industrial takeoff, P6 schedule data, earned-value reporting, procurement and payables. We still take that work on directly.

  • Project management — planning, risk, resources, delivery on time and on budget
  • Data analysis & visualization — advanced analytics and CPM schedule management
  • Project controls — full visibility of project cost and trend
  • Industrial estimating — piping, equipment, engineering and construction disciplines
  • Reporting — Power BI models, star schemas and dashboards
  • Systems design — ERP, procurement, AP and cost workflows