Towards a 3D visualisation framework for construction planning with Procession

The construction industry traditionally uses two dimensional visualisation techniques to analyse project progress. This usually takes the form of an `s-curve´, so called because of the characteristic plot shape (anecdotally generated by resource application take-up in many projects). Analysing project progress in this manner provides a `single view´ guide to data trends. The building blocks of projects are `tasks´. Deeper interpretation of a project might require studying individual s-curves for each task. Indicative patterns can go unrecognised in this mass of unfiltered visual data. `Procession´ is an information visualisation software tool. It has been developed to provide a more comprehensive representation of project progress, utilising a three-dimensional data surface. In addition to offering a `single view´ navigable data-surface, Procession also intelligently filters and emphasises tasks, according to the significance of their deviant performance parameters