How PlanScanAI helps
Price a groundworks package wrong and the whole project goes upside-down. PlanScanAI was built to take the pain out of substructure take-offs — it reads foundation plans, section drawings, drainage layouts and site-levels drawings together, and gives you linear metres, areas and volumes tagged with their drawing references.
Pick ‘Groundworks’ as your trade. Run a Guided Scan targeting strip foundations, drainage runs, manholes or reduced-level excavations. The AI handles the dense dimension text and spec notes you’d otherwise be reading with a rule and highlighter.
What PlanScanAI extracts from groundworks drawings
Optimised for UK civil engineering conventions and typical substructure documentation.
- Foundation types — strip, trench-fill, raft, pile, pad
- Foundation dimensions, depths and reinforcement references
- Ground floor slab build-ups and DPC levels
- Below-ground drainage runs with gradient and diameter
- Manholes, inspection chambers and catchpits
- Attenuation tanks, soakaways and SuDS features
- Formwork and falsework linear metres
- Reduced-level dig areas and cut/fill volumes
- Site levels, spot levels and contour data
- Retaining walls — gravity, cantilever, piled
- Concrete volumes by mix and structural element
- Service entries and ductways for incoming utilities
Why groundworks contractors choose PlanScanAI
- Quote complex substructures in hours instead of days.
- Accurate excavation volumes pulled from levels drawings.
- Drainage runs coordinated with foundation plans in a single output.
- Concrete schedules ready for procurement.
- SuDS-aware — extracts attenuation and infiltration features separately.
Ready to try it?
PlanScanAI is currently in public beta with early-adopter pricing locked in for life. Start with a free trial — five scans, every feature unlocked, no card required. See the AI run on your own drawings and decide from there.