Engineering for the AI future.

Faster, more accurate civil engineering for global land development. Powered by AI automation.

Benefits of AI

Unmatched Speed

Level AI accelerates project timelines, delivering results in a fraction of the time compared to traditional methods.

Cost Efficiency

By automating complex tasks, Level AI significantly reduces labour costs and minimises errors, leading to substantial savings.

Precision and Accuracy

Our AI-driven approach ensures unparalleled accuracy in civil engineering projects, enhancing the quality and reliability of outcomes.

Global Impact

Level AI supports sustainable and efficient land development worldwide, driving progress and innovation in the industry.

The Future of Engineering

Civix is revolutionising Civil Engineering by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence and automation. Level AI significantly reduces design time and minimises human error. This innovation saves you time, lowers holding costs, reduces delays, and provides a competitive edge.

Level AI’s Detailed Design Generative Artificial Intelligence can handle any site, no matter the complexity, enabling you to assess feasibility in hours instead of weeks. It seamlessly integrates with your existing design software, transforming 2D site layouts into impressive 3D models.

When faced with unexpected challenges like soil composition changes or evolving requirements, simply update the parameters and let the AI regenerate your designs with a single click. Plus, with the upcoming Service AI, you’ll soon be able to effortlessly generate servicing systems.

Civix holds exclusive rights to the advanced Level AI software used in our projects within New Zealand. This ensures that our clients benefit from cutting-edge technology and unique solutions that are not available anywhere else in the country.

Surface Design


Level AI has proprietary algorithms and AI models to generate full roading geometry in compliance with local roading standards. Our full roading geometry system takes into account:

  • K Value requirements populated based on road category and customisable per road
  • Tangential connections automatically generated for connectivity between existing and proposed road sections.
  • Complies with maximum and minimum grade requirements.
  • Low points in road avoiding except in identified locations.
  • Support for footpaths, cycleways and all roads from driveways to freeways


Retaining walls are fully supported in the Level AI model. If the site layout as proposed doesn’t have a viable solution for the grade controls, the artificial intelligence will automatically carry out an options assessment on increasing wall height and increasing the number of walls to provide a compliant design.

Features include:

  • Retaining wall location relative to boundary or free draw
  • Wall height limits
  • Feedback overlays for new wall locations or wall height changes to make the design compliant

Automatic 3D modelling of detention systems, specify the allowable extent of the system and whether the goal is to target a specific volume or maximize volume in a given areas.

Parameters include:

  • Optimization type > maximize volumes vs. target volume.
  • Minimum invert level.
  • Min/Max surface levels.
  • Min/Max Grades.
  • Min/Max Cut-fill.

Automatic 3D modelling of detention systems, specify the allowable extent of the system and whether the goal is to target a specific volume or maximize volume in a given areas.

Parameters include:

  • Optimization type > maximize volumes vs. target volume.
  • Minimum invert level.
  • Min/Max surface levels.
  • Min/Max Grades.
  • Min/Max Cut-fill.

Level AI takes the location of existing and proposed infrastructure along with minimum grade and freeboard requirements and ensures roading and lot levels can be serviced to local standards.

For flatter sites these systems can become the main constraint on site levels, Level AI's AI models factors into the design.

  • Drainage servicing requirements
  • Sanitary servicing requirements

How it Works

The Civix development process uses an AI-driven approach to guide clients from initial project scoping through detailed site design. Each step, from layout planning to model building and final outputs, ensures a compliant, balanced, and cost-effective design tailored to project needs.

Engagement

For a demonstration and comprehensive quote on your development project, reach out to Civix today. Our Level AI run services are competitively priced, ranging from $5,000 to $30,000, ensuring you receive the best results tailored to your needs.

In addition to our core services, we offer a variety of supplementary options to enhance your project. These include layout development, flood modelling, and engineering estimate preparation. Each of these additional services can be seamlessly integrated into your project scope for an extra fee, providing you with a holistic and customized solution.

At Civix, we are committed to delivering excellence and precision in every project we undertake. Contact us today to discuss how we can support your development goals.

Layout

To get started, all we need is a site layout. This can be provided by an Urban Designer or Architect, or we can create layout options for you.

If you don’t already have a layout, we offer a collaborative workshop with your project team to understand your requirements and goals. Following this workshop, we will work with suitable professionals to develop tailored layout proposals for your site.

Input Information

Grading Questionnaire: Upon signing up for the project, we will send you a grading questionnaire to complete. This questionnaire sets out the default parameters and standards to be used in the design.

Existing Surface: In addition to layout options, the only other required information for site testing is existing surface data. If you don’t already have a topographic survey for the site, we can use publicly available LIDAR records to establish the existing levels. While topographic surveys are more accurate than LIDAR, we can work with either. If a topographic survey is available, it is the preferred source of information.

Drainage and Sanitary Networks (Optional): The AI can account for levels required to connect to drainage and sanitary networks, making the produced surface designs more accurate. This information is publicly available in some areas and is often included in topographic surveys. Please provide any information you have on these networks, and we will incorporate it into the model.

Geotechnical Reports (Optional): LevelAI can model soil layers and apply design restrictions at each borehole location, allowing for precise control of design parameters. To include this information in the model, we need the geotechnical report for the site.

Model Build

Once we have the layout and other necessary information, we will proceed with the initial model build using default parameters. During this process, we will select the most suitable previously completed project to inherit design parameters from.

If the project is in an area we haven’t worked in before, we will review and incorporate local engineering standards to ensure the design complies with all relevant regulations.

Model Run

Once the model build is complete, we will run the model. Initially, we will set target grading parameters without specifying any ground break features such as batters or retaining walls. The AI will then attempt to grade and balance the site according to the specified requirements. If the site is flat, this first run may be viable and return a balanced design.

If the initial run is not viable, the system will enter ‘WhatIf’ mode. In this mode, the system will add retaining walls and adjust grades on lots and roads to determine what changes are needed to make the site design compliant. This information will then be returned to the designer to inform necessary design changes to meet grading goals.

Design Workshop

After the model run is complete and a viable design is available, we will hold a workshop with the project team to review the results and decide on any necessary modifications to refine the design.

This step may involve several iterations to perfect the design. Potential modifications can include:

  • Adding earthworks staging requirements into the model to balance subareas or the entire site.
  • Refining the placement and height of grade breaks to manage costs and achieve urban design goals.
  • Tweaking the site layout to help the model achieve balance.
  • Updating lot grading requirements to ensure the buildability of various lot typologies.

Outputs

Once the project team is satisfied with the model, we will export all the required information files, ensuring you have everything needed for the next steps in your development project.

Outputs include:

  • Drawings: Cutfill plans, Earthworks Sections, Retaining Wall Plan and Profiles, Roading Plan and Profiles.
  • Financial Information: A schedule of Quantities is automatically produced with the model run. Optionally, we can also include pricing information to create a draft engineer's estimate for the project.
  • Digital Files: Online 3D model viewable in any browser, LandXML file for import into 12D and Civil3D, DWG files, IFC files for import into Revit.

Other Features

Relationships

Level AI provides extensive grading capabilities, allowing relationships to be easily added between items such as roads and buildings. These relationships are optimised along with all other engineering parameters, resulting in a balanced design. This system works at scale, optimising levels on sites with thousands of relationships, enabling the design of master planned communities in hours, not days or weeks.

Level AI’s visualisation tools are excellent for client communication, providing insights into how environmental conditions impact the site.

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Trenching

Imagine having the power to model your trench excavation with precision, ensuring safety, compliance, and cost-efficiency—all at the click of a button. Our advanced trench modelling technology allows you to choose the optimal excavation method for your project, whether it’s stepped excavation or shoring. Our technology designs benching to comply with OSHA standards. Trench cut and backfill volumes are calculated and displayed in precise cut-fill tables, ensuring you have the most accurate estimate of trench spoils.

Our visualisation tools allow for seamless communication with your clients, making it easier to convey project details and decisions. All this power, precision, and peace of mind—available at the click of a button.

Automatic Detention and Retention Pond Sizing

Specify your target volume, depth, and pond grades,
and Level AI will handle the calculations for you.
Ensuring compliance with all good engineering design principles,
while perfectly balancing cut and fill.

Efficient, accurate, and designed to save you time.
Experience the future of pond sizing with Level AI.

GeoTech Points

We are integrating with popular Geotech software tools such as Data Nest and Leapfrog so bore log information can be directly imported into your projects. Additional design control information such as a maximum cut or minimum surface values can be added to control design. Level AI prepares control surfaces from these records to inform the Level AI optimization engine, ensuring the final levels produced comply with Geotech requirements. It takes less than 5min to import hundreds of bore logs and add them to the Level AI model. Allsite.ai - engineering for the AI future

OUR REVIEWS

Level AI has rapidly produced a design that will enable earthworks to be staged in a way that reduces our environmental permitting costs. This technology has the potential to enable Brookfield Developments to explore more design options and save development costs.”

Gonzalo Rodriguez

VP of Land & Planning at Brookfield Residential

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