Qualus Wins Award for Pioneering Workflow Innovation

Qualus Wins Award for Pioneering Workflow Innovation 

Qualus has been named the winner of Looq’s Best Showcase – Defining New Professional Workflows award, recognizing the company’s breakthrough approach to modernizing surveying, modeling, and geospatial intelligence. The honor highlights Qualus’s ability to turn cutting‑edge technology into real‑world operational advantage for utilities and infrastructure owners.

Looq provides scalable, survey‑grade 3D capture for modern infrastructure mapping and this year’s competition highlighted engineering firms using the platform to dramatically improve the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of field data collection and analysis—and Qualus set the benchmark for excellence.

Breakthrough in Precision and Affordability for Infrastructure Analysis

Qualus’s winning workflow integrates Looq’s sub‑centimeter 3D photogrammetric data with Bentley Systems’ PLS CADD, creating an automated modeling pipeline that cuts pole‑modeling time by over 60% while improving structural assessment quality.

A major western utility engaged Qualus to evaluate alternatives to its existing field capture and pole analysis process. The utility needed a solution that could improve modeling precision without driving up costs—an increasingly common challenge as utilities face mounting regulatory, environmental, and operational pressures.

Qualus was tasked with comparing:

• The utility’s existing field capture and analysis tool
• A lighter version of Bentley’s PLS‑CADD
• The full-featured PLS‑CADD application

While the full PLS‑CADD suite offered the highest modeling fidelity, the key question was whether a high‑precision workflow could be deployed cost‑effectively at scale. Qualus believed it could.

A New End‑to‑End Workflow: Eliminating the Tradeoff Between Cost and Capability

The Qualus team proposed a reimagined workflow built around two core components:

1. High‑resolution 3D survey data captured via Looq AI’s photogrammetric platform
2. Automated modeling and structural analysis in Bentley’s full PLS‑CADD environment

This pairing allowed Qualus to challenge the long‑standing assumption that utilities must choose between affordability and analytical rigor.

Key advantages of the new workflow:

• Reduced field labor requirements through rapid, high‑accuracy photogrammetric capture
• Automated model generation, minimizing manual drafting time
• Shift of modeling tasks to lower‑cost engineering staff without sacrificing quality
• Higher‑quality structural assessments supported by defensible, sub‑centimeter data
• Significant cost savings for the utility, even at large scale

These efficiencies enabled Qualus to deliver a premium engineering product at a competitive price point—an outcome that resonated strongly with Looq.

Setting a New Standard for Utility and Engineering Workflows

Qualus’s success signals a major shift in how utilities can modernize their asset intelligence. By proving that high‑precision modeling can be both scalable and affordable, Qualus established a blueprint for the next generation of smart infrastructure analysis. From wildfire‑prone regions to storm‑impacted corridors, utilities face pressure to modernize their asset intelligence, and Qualus’s award‑winning workflow shows how to meet these challenges with confidence—reducing risk, improving reliability, and lowering operational costs. For engineers, utilities, and infrastructure owners, the message is clear: the future of efficient, intelligent workflows has arrived—and Qualus is leading the way.

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