HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE

Digital pull planning for hospital construction project management

 

Coordinate trades, streamline commissioning handoffs and hit turnover dates with Nialli™ Visual Planner.

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Today’s hospital projects face multiple challenges

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Spatial congestion and trade stacking

Modern healthcare facilities allocate around 40–50% of their total construction budget to MEP and specialized medical systems. Mechanical, electrical, plumbing and specialized equipment providers work in tight areas where minor delays can cause severe bottlenecks.

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Strict compliance and commissioning processes

Hospital builds face stringent regulatory standards and extensive commissioning for infection control and emergency management. A single failed rough-in inspection can cause an abrupt stop to commissioning and a ripple effect with delays that prevent healthcare facilities from opening on time.

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Working around active operations

Many healthcare projects are expansions or renovations of occupied facilities. Work must be scheduled around critical hospital operations —managing planned utility shutdowns, quiet hours and sterile corridor access to avoid disrupting patient care.

Meet Nialli™ Visual Planner

Easy-to-use, hands-on planning for complex healthcare construction projects

Nialli Visual Planner trade coordination and digital pull planning

Eliminate trade stacking and streamline MEP coordination

Use digital pull planning in Nialli Visual Planner to coordinate complex hospital MEP rough-ins, sequence trade handoffs and eliminate spatial congestion before boots hit the jobsite.

Visual workflow management

Show activities, dependencies and constraints in an interactive visual format to resolve spatial bottlenecks before they cause delays.

Unlimited contractor collaboration

Onboard unlimited trades at no extra cost. Simple, hands-on interface keeps users engaged and contributing daily status updates.

Cross-device connectivity

Connect jobsite and office teams across interactive touchscreens, desktops (Windows® and macOS®) and mobile devices (iOS and Android™) with instant, live synchronization.

Meet compliance and commissioning milestones on schedule

Build collaborative pull plans backward from critical inspection and turnover dates to ensure complex healthcare systems pass commissioning without costly rework.

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Plan backward from key dates

Import master schedule dates to work backward from key milestones and build a collaborative phase plan with full trade buy-in.

Set up a multiscreen visual workspace

Extend across multiple touchscreen displays for a wall-to-wall Big Room planning experience.

Keep conversations flowing

Support in-room collaboration and shoulder-to-shoulder commitments between teams with multitouch functionality.

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Pivot in real time to protect active clinical environments

Modern healthcare facilities cannot afford unplanned operational disruptions. Nialli Visual Planner provides instant cross-device visibility into daily jobsite production, empowering field teams to track constraints, adapt to strict protocols and maintain project flow without compromising clinical spaces.

Synchronize automatically

Ensure changes and updates are reflected live across all device types, ensuring everyone is working off the latest version of the plan.

Manage constraints

Log project- and task-level blockers with visual alerts that flag potential delays before they impact clinical operations.

Drive continuous improvement

Access full field-level project history to identify variance root causes and optimize future phases of work.

PCL uses hospital construction pull planning software

Watch how PCL Construction uses digital pull planning for a complex hospital project, keeping field teams coordinated and on schedule while working on the construction of one of the largest cancer care centers in North America.

Additional resources

How to video series - why use Nialli Visual planner

Why visual planning?

Explore the benefits of visual planning in construction and why your project should consider digital pull planning. Check out Nialli's full how-to series next.

Watch how-to videos

Contractual scheduling vs production planning

Contractual scheduling vs. Production planning

 

Traditional scheduling methods define what gets built, but not necessarily how the work will unfold in the field. Explore when to use production planning for project sucess.

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The Last Planner System guide

The Last Planner System guide

Why is collaborative planning valuable for healthcare project delivery? Learn more about the Last Planner System and how to apply it on your next project.

Read the guide

Improve healthcare project delivery

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