HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE
Digital pull planning for hospital construction project management
Coordinate trades, streamline commissioning handoffs and hit turnover dates with Nialli™ Visual Planner.
Today’s hospital projects face multiple challenges
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Improve healthcare project delivery
Book a demo or try Nialli Visual Planner free for 30‑days.
Your questions, answered
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Why should hospital construction projects use digital pull planning?
Healthcare construction is complex and requires strict alignment among numerous specialty trades. While pull planning has long proven effective for ground-level coordination, physical whiteboards and sticky notes limit visibility and speed.
Digital pull planning modernizes this collaborative framework by making project schedules dynamic, cloud-based and accessible from the trailer to the jobsite. Teams can resolve sequencing conflicts faster, capture live progress metrics and document process improvements across all hospital builds.
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What makes Nialli Visual Planner different from other hospital pull planning software?
Nialli Visual Planner is planning software built around hands-on, visual scheduling at the jobsite. Other planning and scheduling tools are built for the needs of knowledge workers: task tracking, approval management and progress checks. These tools are not built for active coordination in the field. Nialli is purpose-built for on-site construction management and production control. It accounts for trade sequencing, task dependencies, handoffs between crews, weather events and physical movement between project zones. It is specifically modeled on the Last Planner System. The interface is designed so jobsite teams can status and update their work in seconds without navigating construction planning software built for a desk-based workflow.
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Can Nialli Visual Planner work alongside my existing scheduling processes?
Yes, Nialli Visual Planner works alongside your existing contractual or master schedule. Your schedule in Oracle® Primavera P6, Asta Powerproject® or Microsoft® Project remains the contractual record for project controls, milestones and budget tracking. Nialli handles field-level production planning, giving teams a visual way to coordinate daily work. Project milestones and activity data can be imported from your master schedule into Nialli Visual Planner. If key milestones slip compared to the schedule, alerts appear in the plan. Afterward, your data can be exported into Microsoft Power BI for advanced analysis. Customers can also request access to Nialli’s data API.
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How does Nialli Visual Planner improve stakeholder relations and hospital owner visibility into the hospital construction planning process?
In modern hospital construction, key decision-makers such as hospital facility directors, project executives and clinical advisors cannot always be physically present at the jobsite. Nialli Visual Planner provides real-time visibility into the Lean pull planning process from any location. Distributed teams can join live pull planning sessions via web browser or interactive display to provide input, track milestone progression and align commitments. Because Nialli Visual Planner automatically records all ground-level field data and task statuses, owners and general contractors gain a clear record to track project reliability, streamline commissioning handovers and optimize future project phases.
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What is the licensing model for Nialli Visual Planner?
Nialli Visual Planner is offered on a flat-rate, annual subscription model. Licensing is plan-based, with no limits on how many users or devices can be added to each plan.
A small- or mid-sized project such as renovations to an existing healthcare facility can typically be run within one plan. Larger projects, such as new hospital campus construction or children’s hospital construction, are best split across several plans by phases of construction or areas of work. Learn more about pricing or contact our sales team for a custom quote.