Use CasesBilling

Billing without measurements of your own.

Many construction sites lack a reliable basis for checking quantities and wall areas objectively.

What happens today

  • Stockpile and rubble quantities come from the subcontractor

    Rubble pile on a construction site
  • Hardly any objective basis for checks

  • Walls are measured by hand for billing

    Measuring a wall by hand
INVOICESubcontractor GmbH
Project: Musterstraße site
No. 2024-1187
15.05.2024
Pos.ItemQtyUnitUnit priceTotal
01Excavation / removal320€18.50€5,920.00
02Construction debris disposal45t€62.00€2,790.00
03Interior walls (drywall)480€38.00€18,240.00
Net amount€26,950.00
VAT (19%)€5,120.50
Total amount€32,070.50
What can actually be billed?

What this leads to

  • High manual effort

    Checking, queries, re-measuring, coordination.

  • Leeway in quantities and disposal

    Without measurements of your own, figures are hard to verify.

  • Subcontractor invoices are hard to check

    Deviations are often hard to trace.

  • Site management time tied up needlessly

    Instead of steering progress, resources are tied up in billing.

Use Case 1

Stockpiles / rubble.

A 360° walkthrough becomes a verifiable volume basis for stockpiles, rubble and disposal.

Plonda detects a stockpile in the 3D walkthrough and calculates its volume

How it works

  1. 1. Hover over the stockpile

    Select a stockpile, rubble or a container in the 3D walkthrough.

  2. 2. Automatic segmentation

    The AI detects and outlines the stockpile automatically.

  3. 3. Volume is calculated

    The volume is calculated from the 3D model and displayed.

Benefits

  • Verifiable quantity basis

    Objective, traceable volumes instead of estimates.

    ± 0.5% deviation
  • Faster disposal checks

    Capture and check quantities right in the walkthrough.

  • Less leeway in billing

    Clear, verifiable data reduces disputes.

Use Case 2

Rooms / BoQ billing.

One click into the room: floor, ceiling, walls, windows and reveals are detected in the 3D model and prepared as the m² basis for BoQ billing.

How it works

  1. 1. Click into the room

    One click in the 3D model is all it takes.

  2. 2. Automatic room detection

    Floor, ceiling, walls, windows and reveals are detected.

  3. 3. m² as the billing basis

    Net areas per room, openings deducted, mapped to the BoQ.

Benefits

  • Faster measuring

    Entire rooms in minutes instead of hours.

  • Traceable areas

    Every detected surface can be checked directly in the 3D model.

  • Better BoQ billing

    Mapped directly to BoQ items, with no manual rework.

Time savings

Ten hours of measuring become two.

Per billing stage: a 360° walkthrough instead of measuring on site, wall areas detected automatically, evidence linked directly.

Today

  1. Measure on site
  2. Calculate m²
  3. Assign photos / evidence
≈ 10 hper billing stage

With Plonda

  1. Record a 360° walkthrough
  2. Detect wall areas automatically
  3. Link m² directly to evidence
≈ 2 hper billing stage

Example calculation

Savings per billing stage≈ 8 h
Across 10 billing stages≈ 80 h
At €75/h≈ €6,000Potential per project

Only direct time savings are included.

Additional benefits

  • Direct visual evidence
  • Faster invoice checks
  • Fewer queries

Try Plonda on your site.

Write to us and we will show you Plonda on one of your projects.