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Construction Manager

Real-time building project data for any location

Construction Manager pulls together live, cited data for every stage of a building project — from initial property checks to contractor verification, material pricing, and blueprint generation. Worldwide coverage with UK-first depth.

Planning a build or renovation means juggling property constraints, planning history, weather windows, contractor checks, and material costs across separate websites. This tool consolidates all of it. Look up any property by address or postcode, check listed building and flood status, pull recent planning decisions nearby, verify a contractor's company status before paying a deposit, find local tradesmen, price materials, extract scope from drawings, and generate blueprint renders — all from one place.

What you can do

  • lookup_property — geocode any address and get property details including coordinates for downstream lookups
  • check_property_constraints — listed building status, conservation area, flood risk, and tree preservation orders
  • search_planning_permits — recent planning applications and decisions near any location
  • get_build_weather_forecast — activity-specific weather windows for scheduling outdoor work
  • verify_company — check a contractor's company registration, status, and filing history before paying
  • find_local_tradesmen — discover local trades for any discipline near a postcode or address
  • find_building_materials — live local pricing and availability for materials
  • analyze_construction_drawings — extract scope of works from uploaded drawings or blueprints
  • render_blueprint — generate floor plans, elevations, sections, and site plans from a description

Who it's for

Homeowners planning renovations, property developers scoping sites, contractors preparing bids, and architects checking constraints. Particularly useful in the UK where listed building and planning history data is fully integrated.

How to use it

  1. Start with lookup_property to get coordinates for the address
  2. Run check_property_constraints to identify any restrictions before starting design
  3. Use search_planning_permits to see what's been approved nearby — useful evidence for your own application
  4. Before signing a contract, use verify_company with the contractor's registered company name
Look Up Property

Resolve any address or postcode worldwide to a structured record with coordinates and admin areas so other skills can use the location.

Returns: Normalized property record with lat/lon, admin levels, postcode, country, and source attribution
Check Property Constraints

Check all legal and regulatory constraints affecting a property — listed status, conservation area, AONB, TPO, article-4 direction, flood zone, and more.

Returns: Constraint record with listed/historic status, conservation area, protected landscape, flood zone, TPOs, article-4 directions, and other overlays, with coverage flag and source URLs
Search Planning Permits

Find recent planning applications or building permits near a property so you can see what councils have approved and rejected in the area.

Returns: Nearby permit records with reference, description, status, decision date, distance, and link to the official notice
Build Weather Forecast

Daily forecast with build-suitability flags for a specific activity — concrete pour, external render, roof work, external paint, or earthworks.

Returns: Daily forecast with min/max temperature, rain, wind, suitability flag per day, and the longest good window for the chosen activity
Verify Company

Check a builder, contractor, or supplier on the official company register — status, officers, incorporation date, registered address, and outstanding charges.

Returns: Company record with legal status, officers, incorporation date, address, charges count (UK), and warnings for liquidation, dissolution, or missing accounts
Find Local Tradesmen

Find rated local tradespeople — builders, plumbers, electricians, roofers, plasterers and more — using live Google Places data with country-specific trade terms.

Returns: Ranked tradesperson listings with rating, review count, address, phone, website, and distance when available
Find Building Materials

Find live prices for building materials from country-appropriate retailers — Screwfix and Travis Perkins in the UK, Home Depot and Lowes in the US, Leroy Merlin in France, and similar elsewhere.

Returns: Ranked product listings with price, currency, supplier, availability, and link, sorted to prefer major regional merchants
Analyze Construction Drawings

Extract a structured scope of works from architectural or construction drawings — rooms with areas, structural items, MEP scope, door and window schedule, and external works.

Returns: Structured scope with rooms, structural items, MEP scope, door/window schedule, external works, and a confidence score
Render Blueprint

Generate a clean architectural blueprint — floor plan, elevation, section, or site plan — from a text description and optional dimensions. Ideal for sketching a proposed extension or refurb before taking it to an architect.

Returns: Generated blueprint image URL plus the prompt used, plan type, and description
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v0.022026-04-13
  • Improved error messages across all skills — service errors no longer expose infrastructure details
  • Weather forecast, planning permits, drawing analysis, and blueprint skills now return clean user-facing messages when services are unavailable
  • Weather forecast now automatically falls back to a secondary provider when the primary is rate-limited — more reliable forecasts during high-traffic periods
v0.012026-04-10
  • Initial release with eight skills: lookup_property, check_property_constraints, search_planning_permits, get_build_weather_forecast, verify_company, find_local_tradesmen, find_building_materials, analyze_construction_drawings
  • UK first-class coverage — planning.data.gov.uk sweep for listed buildings, conservation areas, AONBs, national parks, TPOs, article-4 directions, flood zones, SSSIs, ancient woodland, green belt, world heritage sites
  • US coverage for FEMA flood zones and building permits in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco
  • Global weather forecasts with build-suitability flags for external render, roof work, concrete pour, external paint, and earthworks
  • Global company verification through Companies House for UK and OpenCorporates for 140+ jurisdictions

Construction Manager Use Cases(3)

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Open Research Planning Permission Before You Build

Research Planning Permission Before You Build

Check planning constraints, permitted development rights, and existing permit history for any address before submitting an application.

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Construction Manager
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Open Verify a Contractor Before Hiring

Verify a Contractor Before Hiring

Check a contractor's registration, accreditations, and trading history before signing any contract or making a deposit.

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Construction Manager
4 agent guides
Open Search Papers by Topic

Search Papers by Topic

Find relevant academic papers on any research topic across millions of scholarly publications.

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Academic Research
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Open Geocode Addresses to Coordinates

Geocode Addresses to Coordinates

Convert street addresses into precise latitude and longitude coordinates for mapping and spatial analysis.

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Address Geocoding
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