STRUCINSPECT
Austrian cloud platform for AI-assisted structural inspection of bridges, tunnels and dams. It detects and classifies concrete damage on survey imagery, builds 3D models and orthophotos, maps defects in 3D and supports infrastructure lifecycle analysis for operators and engineering firms.
What is STRUCINSPECT?
STRUCINSPECT is an Austrian joint venture that operates the Infrastructure Lifecycle Hub, a cloud-based workplace for inspecting and managing civil engineering structures. It targets bridges, tunnels and dams, and is aimed at infrastructure operators and engineering companies rather than at general users. The vendor describes the platform as individually adapted to relevant inspection standards, naming DIN 1076.
The platform assembles a full chain, from raw imagery to a maintenance decision. Survey photographs taken on site — by drone, camera, or the mobile data collection app that synchronises with the hub — are uploaded, and photogrammetry produces a scaled, georeferenced 3D model together with orthophotos, single geometrically correct images composed from many individual shots. The AI then marks damage automatically and sorts it into five classes for concrete surfaces: fine cracks, efflorescence cracks, exposed rebar, corrosion and spalling. STRUCINSPECT states that certified engineers trained the model. Detected damage is projected onto the 3D model, so defects are located in space instead of being described in prose.
Around that core the hub adds asset administration with 2D plans and collaborators, condition ratings, planned measures with their monetary cost, image filtering and management, reporting, and an infrastructure lifecycle analysis module that predicts strategies to extend asset life and calculates risk and value from inventory and inspection data. Findings export to the BIM format IFC, and reports are generated from a Microsoft Word template each organisation can adapt. Successive inspections can be compared, which is what turns an isolated survey into lifecycle management.
The vendor is explicit that the AI assists rather than replaces the inspector: it marks and documents anomalies so the engineer can focus on assessment, and the terms state that a digital twin cannot replace an on-site inspection. Published references include a motorway bridge on the A99 near Munich, a subway tunnel network in the United States where data entry fell to three hours from sixteen night shifts, and the Clunie Dam in Scotland, delivered with Voith. Access is commercial rather than self-service: the site offers a demo request, and no price is published.
What it does
- Detect and mark damage automatically on uploaded survey imagery of concrete structures
- Classify detected damage into five concrete damage types
- Generate scaled, georeferenced 3D models of an asset by photogrammetry
- Project detected damage onto the 3D model to locate defects in space
- Produce orthophotos, a single geometrically correct image composed of many shots
- Generate inspection reports from an editable Microsoft Word template
- Run lifecycle analysis to estimate risk, value and life-extension strategies
When to use STRUCINSPECT / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if STRUCINSPECT is the right fit.
When to use STRUCINSPECT
- Infrastructure operators responsible for recurring statutory inspection of bridges, tunnels or dams
- Engineering consultancies delivering structural inspection and condition assessment as a service
- Bridge and tunnel inspectors who need to cut road or track closure time and night shifts
- BIM coordinators who must receive inspection findings as an IFC model rather than a PDF report
- Asset and maintenance managers building a multi-year condition history to plan and cost interventions
When not to use STRUCINSPECT
- Private individuals and consumers: the terms restrict the platform to entrepreneurs under Austrian law
- Teams expecting the AI to replace an on-site inspection, which the terms explicitly rule out
- Assets outside concrete structures, since the AI classifies only five concrete damage types
- Developers wanting to integrate inspection data programmatically: there is no product API
- Buyers who must budget from a public price list, as no rates are published anywhere
How to use STRUCINSPECT
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Request a demo through the contact page, since there is no self-service sign-up on the website
- Sign in to the Infrastructure Lifecycle Hub with your email and password, and add seats for your organisation
- Create an asset for the structure, upload its 2D plans and invite collaborators
- Create an inspection, which is assigned a project ID you will need for uploads
- Capture the survey imagery on site, using the mobile data collection app for on-site damage documentation
- Split the photographs into an AI set for damage detection and a Mod set for 3D modelling
- Upload large image sets with the SI-CLI tool, running si-cli.exe upi -t ai and si-cli.exe upi -t mod
- Ask support to trigger the AI on your project, then review the marked and classified damage
- Rate the condition, record measures and attach their monetary cost
- Generate the report from a Word template, and export findings to IFC for BIM
Pros & Cons
Pros
- A complete, documented chain from imagery to report, 3D model and lifecycle analysis in one platform
- Honest, bounded AI scope: five named concrete damage classes, with a model trained by certified engineers
- Measured results on named references, including a 79% cut in resource requirements on a subway tunnel network
- A contractual availability commitment of 99.85% per calendar month
- Detailed public product documentation covering accounts, uploads, ratings, measures and reporting
- European vendor with a complete Austrian legal notice and a GDPR-based privacy policy
- Interface available in four languages, including Croatian and Norwegian
Cons
- No price is published anywhere: there is no pricing page, and no amount appears on the site or in the documentation
- The terms grant an irrevocable, perpetual licence to use service results for AI development, with no documented opt-out
- No hosting country or region is disclosed for customer data, and no subprocessor list is published
- No data processing agreement is published or offered on the site
- The Help Center linked in the header and footer is unreachable: the wildcard certificate expired on 19 May 2026
- No product API, so inspection data cannot be integrated programmatically into other systems
- Reports are produced only as Microsoft Word files, and subscriptions are annual with no refund on cancellation
Pricing & Plans
STRUCINSPECT publishes no prices. There is no pricing page on the website, and no amount appears either on the site or in the product documentation, so no starting price, currency or billing unit can be stated. The documented commercial model is an annual subscription that renews automatically each year, preceded by a thirty-day trial: a customer is invoiced only if the subscription has not been cancelled within thirty days of registering. Cancellation is possible at any time by email to support, but no refund is given and it takes effect once the prepaid period expires. Additional seats can be added to an organisation. There is no permanent free plan for the hub, although the webinars in the Knowledge hub are free of charge. Commercial access begins with a demo request rather than an online sign-up.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how STRUCINSPECT handles your data.
GDPR overview
STRUCINSPECT is established in Austria, so the GDPR applies directly and no Article 27 representative is required or named. The privacy policy states it was written to meet the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and refers to the Austrian Data Protection Act. It sets out data subject rights, points to the Austrian data protection authority for complaints, and describes TLS encryption. The controller is STRUCINSPECT GmbH, Jakov-Lind-Strasse 5, 1020 Vienna; data protection questions go to peter.gyorgy@strucinspect.com and deletion requests to support@strucinspect.com. No data protection officer under Article 37 is designated: the contact given is the managing director. Two limits deserve mention. The policy carries version 12.05.2021, and it links to an Impressum address that is not the live legal page.
Who owns the data?
Under the general terms, everything a customer or its users upload — images and asset data — counts as "Proprietary Content", and so do the results STRUCINSPECT itself produces: digital twins, AI damage detection and 2D/3D damage mapping. The customer remains solely responsible for that content and warrants it is free of third-party rights. In return, the customer grants STRUCINSPECT an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, transferable and sub-licensable right to use and exploit those service results to develop and improve artificial intelligence, including reproducing and editing them. The vendor undertakes to make Proprietary Content downloadable for backup, and expects customers to take backups regularly.
Reuse rights
Customers may freely use their own uploaded material and the results delivered to them, and the terms encourage them to download that content regularly for backup. Everything else is tightly bounded: clause 5.2 forbids reproducing, downloading, distributing, selling, renting, transferring, broadcasting, editing, translating, disassembling or reverse-engineering the Service Hub and its content without prior written consent, with the customer's own Proprietary Content carved out. In the opposite direction, STRUCINSPECT reserves a broad and irrevocable right over service results for AI development. Separately, the privacy policy covers website visitors only: it names a Facebook pixel and Hotjar, and serves Google Fonts locally so no visitor data reaches Google.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
STRUCINSPECT publishes nothing about where customer data is hosted. The Infrastructure Lifecycle Hub is described only as cloud-based; neither the legal pages nor the product documentation names a hosting country, a region, a cloud provider or any infrastructure subcontractor, and no subprocessor list is published. The hosting country and region are therefore left empty rather than inferred. One measurable fact concerns the marketing website alone and not the hub: the domain resolves to an IP address operated by Host Europe GmbH in Cologne, Germany. That is where the public website is served from, established by IP geolocation, and it must not be read as a vendor statement about where inspection images, 3D models or damage records are stored. The privacy policy does note that Google Fonts is served locally from the site's own web server, so no connection is made to Google's servers. Any organisation with a data residency obligation should put the question to STRUCINSPECT directly, because it is not answered publicly.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting STRUCINSPECT.
- Your inspection results feed the vendor's AI under an irrevocable, perpetual licence, with no documented way to opt out
- Defects in delivered results must be reported in writing within three working days, or claims are lost
- Over-reliance on automated detection can erode the inspector's own visual judgement over time; the AI is an aid, not a verdict
- Nothing is published about where inspection images and structural data are stored, which may block a data residency requirement
- The legal page shows two different company register numbers, and the one in the terms no longer designates STRUCINSPECT
- The Help Center linked site-wide is unreachable behind an expired certificate, so support paths are less obvious than they look
- STRUCINSPECT is a joint venture: certifications, references and addresses of PALFINGER, VCE, Angst Group or Franchetti belong to the parent companies, not to the publisher
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Moderate, and more a matter of data than of software. The hub runs in a browser with an email and password, so nothing is installed for day-to-day use, but access begins with a sales conversation rather than a sign-up. The real prerequisite is producing usable imagery and splitting it into an AI set and a Mod set. Large uploads require the SI-CLI command-line tool on Windows, run with the inspection ID. Triggering the AI on a project goes through support, and report templates must be prepared in Microsoft Word.
Deployment
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Behind STRUCINSPECT
Resources
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Frequently asked questions
What kinds of structures does STRUCINSPECT cover?
What exactly does the AI detect?
Does the AI replace the inspector?
What can I get out of the platform?
Is there an API?
How much does it cost?
Is there a free trial?
Is my data used to train the AI?
Where is customer data hosted?
Which interface languages are available?
Should you pick STRUCINSPECT?
STRUCINSPECT is a serious vertical tool rather than a general-purpose AI product. It addresses one job — the recurring inspection of concrete civil engineering structures — and covers it end to end, from survey imagery through automated damage detection to a 3D model, an IFC export and a lifecycle analysis that puts risk and cost on the table. The scope of the AI is refreshingly bounded: five named concrete damage classes, a model the vendor says was trained by certified engineers, and an explicit statement that a digital twin cannot replace an on-site inspection. Named references with measured outcomes, a 99.85% monthly availability commitment and unusually detailed public documentation all support the claim.
The reservations are mostly about transparency rather than capability. No price is published anywhere, so budgeting requires a sales conversation. No hosting country is disclosed for customer data, no subprocessor list exists and no data processing agreement is offered publicly, which is a real gap for public infrastructure buyers with procurement checklists. Most consequential, the general terms grant the vendor an irrevocable and perpetual licence to exploit service results to improve its AI, and no opt-out is documented anywhere. Housekeeping is uneven too: the Help Center linked from every page is unreachable because the wildcard certificate expired in May 2026, the declared sitemap is filled with dead URLs, and the terms still cite a company register number that no longer belongs to STRUCINSPECT.
For a bridge, tunnel or dam owner already committed to digital inspection, this is a credible and well documented platform. Approach it with a written question list on pricing, data residency and training rights, because the website answers none of the three.
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