CONSTRUCTION PLANNING SOFTWARE

Pull planning has gone digital. Meet Nialli.

See the big picture with Nialli™ Visual Planner. Built on the Last Planner System®, Visual Planner provides managers and jobsite teams with visual, interactive construction planning software that keeps projects on track from the site trailer to the head office.

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People get out of their chairs. They gather around the board. It encourages conversations rather than hiding behind laptops. Issues can now be spotted much earlier in the construction process, where they can be proactively discussed and corrected rather than wasting time, effort and money retroactively resolving them as they occur.

Sean Sachtleben

Preconstruction Manager and Lean Practice Leader, Austin Commercial

Simple to master in minutes - a user interacts with Nialli Visual Planner using a touch display.

Simple to master in minutes

Trades need to know three things: how to add an activity, how to move it and how to status it. Most users are productive within 10 minutes of their first session on any active construction project.

Digital sticky notes in Nialli Visual Planner shown on an interactive display.

Feels like using sticky notes

Color-coded tags by trade, drag-and-drop scheduling and touch gestures on a large display all mirror how physical planning boards work. No need for additional wall space or transcribing updates to a spreadsheet.

Better conversations - 3 construction workers collaborate using Nialli Visual Planner on an interactive display.

Results in better conversations

When the plan is visual and easy to interact with, field teams and project managers become more actively engaged. Trades gather around the board and contribute to discussions and problem-solving.

Big room planning session using Nialli Visual Planner on multiple interactive displays.

Built for Big Room planning sessions

Multiple users can interact with and touch the board, across up to three connected displays, working on the same project plan simultaneously.

Multiple users collaborate using Nialli Visual Planner, with one individual using a laptop and multiple individuals collaborating on a interactive display.

Designed for multiple collaborators at once

Project managers, trade partners, owners and remote stakeholders all work simultaneously, with real-time updates across every device. There's no limit on the number of users.

Use Nialli Visual Planner on any device - a construction worker accesses from their tablet

Developed for users to join from anywhere, on any device

Remote participants can work from a laptop, tablet or phone. Teams with distributed crews or multiple subcontractors can stay aligned without being in the same room.

Importing activities into the phase plan in Nialli Visual Planner.

Imports data from your master schedule

Milestones and activities can be pulled from Oracle® Primavera P6, Asta Powerproject® or Microsoft® Project and uploaded directly to your plan. Your field teams can start planning immediately, without having to manually recreate the construction project schedule.

PPC reports and Power BI analytics in Nialli Visual Planner.

Includes analytics on construction project progress

Percent Plan Complete (PPC) and reasons-for-variance data generate automatically as your construction teams status their tasks.

A user twists tags on Nialli Visual Planner to update activities.

Highlights constraints with visual cues

Constraints appear as yellow warning dots on affected tasks so your construction teams can see and address blockers before they become an issue, protecting project timelines.

See Nialli Visual Planner in action

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.

“I met with the developers of Nialli, and it was like they’d read my mind. How did they know I needed this?”

Steve Hawthorne

Director of Operations, Mace

"Nialli has been a transformative software addition for our teams to really dive deeper into Lean and the Last Planner System® on our projects"

Dylan Almeida

Superintendent, PC Construction

"People get out of their chairs. They gather around the board. It encourages conversations rather than hiding behind laptops"

Sean Sachtleben

Lean Practice Leader, Austin Commercial

Designed for the Last Planner System®

Traditional top-down construction project management fails on real projects because variables in the schedule will surface only once work is underway. The Last Planner System addresses this issue by putting planning decisions in the hands of the people closest to the work and giving construction teams the flexibility to adapt as conditions change.

The result is more predictable project outcomes, less idle time for crews and fewer surprises at the handoffs between trades. Nialli Visual Planner digitizes the process with its construction work planning software, so your field teams retain the collaborative benefits of the Last Planner System without the limitations of paper planning.

Nialli Visual Planner running on multiple devices

Two construction workers collaborate on an interactive display using Nialli Visual Planner.

The value of interaction

Learn how tactile planning bridges longstanding communication divides between field and office teams.

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Why visual planning?

Explore the benefits of visual planning in construction and why your project should consider digital pull planning.

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How contractors benefit

Hear from companies like Willmott Dixon, Mace and PCL on why they've chosen Nialli Visual Planner for collaborative planning.

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Get started with Nialli Visual Planner today

Book a demo to see how Nialli pull planning software works on a project like yours. Or try a free plan for 30 days and test it on a real job.

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