To overcome some of the inherent challenges of construction, MOCA developed a construction simulation platform called MOCABuild™ that extends existing cost and scheduling software applications with the capability to:

• Fully integrate the cost estimate with the schedule for better pre-construction estimates and construction scheduled values development and management.
• Develop a detailed and intelligent labor-driven schedule by trade by day based on actual work contact and material requirements.
• Simulate construction alternatives and recovery options to make proactive and verifiable decisions based on labor availability, budget and time requirements, and changes/claims.  This provides a much faster and more definitive approach to meeting schedule milestones and completion dates, avoiding potential additional costs and crises.

MOCABuild™ augments Primavera™ and most cost databases to provide integrated cost estimates with detailed labor-driven schedules (by day and trade) based on specific variables relating to the construction project.  MOCABuild™ is based on initial research developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and developed over the past seven years by MOCA Systems.  MOCA Systems has two pending patents relating to resource allocation and construction simulation.

The MOCABuild™ platform includes a database of “micro-level construction activities” that identify the actual time to complete each construction task in a building.  It was developed through over 65,000 hours of research conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supplemented by over five years of commercial development at MOCA, validated by interviews and site observations at over 200 actual construction sites, and continually verified on current projects.

The MOCA team creates a baseline cost estimate integrated with a resource-loaded schedule based on the defined micro-level activities in MOCABuild™, quantity take-off information and local market cost and productivity benchmarks.  This baseline estimate is at the level of each physical component in each location within the facility, which identifies and sequences every task performed by each trade worker.

By integrating the cost and schedule together, the system allows you to assess BOTH the cost and schedule impact of a single change in construction design or technology.  This integration is required for getting more visibility into actual performance and making difficult complex decisions on design and technology decisions such as “green” technologies.  The MOCA system has a simulation environment for making tradeoff decisions in design changes as well as construction methodologies to allow users to quickly determine the best course of action from the conceptual design stage through construction completion.

The MOCA team has a deep knowledge of construction, engineering and project controls.  Using the MOCABuild™ system and a proven methodology for getting the design and build teams to collaborate in a fact-based environment, the MOCA team guides the development of the capital project through the entire lifecycle.