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📊 The Evidence

The numbers behind
construction’s costliest problem.

Document coordination failures aren’t an edge case — they’re the industry’s most persistent source of waste. Here’s what the research shows.

$177B+
Annual cost of coordination failures across the global construction industry
30%
Of all construction work ends up being reworked due to errors and miscommunication
75%
Of projects fail to meet their original deadlines, with rework as a primary driver
The Rework Problem

Where the Money Goes

Poor coordination doesn’t just cause inconvenience — it drives billions in preventable losses every year.

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$31.3B
Annual U.S. rework costs from poor data & miscommunication
Nearly half of all rework in the U.S. construction industry — 48% — is caused by poor project data and miscommunication between teams.
PlanGrid + FMI Report
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5–20%
Of total project costs consumed by rework
Typical projects lose 5–15% to rework, but poorly managed coordination can push that to 20% — turning a $50M project into a $60M one.
McKinsey & Company; Construction Industry Institute
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20%
Of total project time lost to rework
One in five project hours is spent fixing work that should have been done right the first time — significantly increasing labor and material costs.
Construction Industry Institute
The Human Bottleneck

Why Manual Review Falls Short

The problem isn’t effort — it’s that humans are being asked to do something that exceeds human capacity.

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35%+
Time on non-productive tasks
Construction professionals spend over 14 hours per week looking for information, resolving conflicts, and dealing with mistakes.
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1,000s
Details to cross-reference
Project coordinators must manually compare thousands of details across dozens of document sets from multiple disciplines.
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48%
Of rework from miscommunication
Nearly half of all rework stems directly from poor data and communication between project teams working in parallel.
The Cascade Effect

How a Missed Conflict Becomes a Six-Figure Problem

A single coordination error caught on paper costs minutes. Caught in the field, it costs months.

1

Conflict Created

Disciplines design in parallel — MEP routes through structural elements, specs contradict drawings.

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2

Review Missed It

Manual coordination can’t catch everything across hundreds of pages. The conflict goes to permit and bid.

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3

Found in the Field

Work stops. RFIs are issued, change orders drafted. 2–6 weeks of delays and $100K–$500K+ in rework costs.

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Hypothetical Cost and Savings

Flikt.AI Review
$30K
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% of $50M Project
0.06%
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Typical Savings
$1M–$2.5M
A fraction-of-a-percent investment to prevent the 2–5% in rework and delays that coordination failures typically cause.

Sources & References

The data on this page is drawn from leading industry research.

PlanGrid + FMI Report — “Construction Disconnected” — Rework costs, miscommunication data, and time lost to non-productive activities
Construction Industry Institute — Studies on rework frequency, time impact, and coordination failure root causes
McKinsey & Company — “Reinventing Construction” and related research on project cost overruns and productivity
KPMG Global Construction Survey — Project deadline performance data across the global construction industry
FMI & Autodesk — Research on construction professional time allocation and administrative burden

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