The Muse may be a physically small project for Graham Construction, a US$1 million transformation of a century-old timber-company’s offices into an upscale craft coffee house and speakeasy-style whiskey bar on the waterfront in Everett, Washington. But the lovely 6,000-square-foot building, which features nearly every kind of wood cut and milled in the Pacific Northwest, has played an outsized roll in demonstrating an innovative technology combination – newly applied to a construction environment – that promises to increase quality of work, save time and money, and improve the construction experience for building owners.

Michael Nesvik joined Graham’s Seattle Buildings office in 2018 with a mandate to find any technology that might help the team do things better or faster, assist in gaining projects, improve Graham’s preconstruction service offering, or accelerate the company’s use of Building Information Modelling (BIM). The particular technology Nesvik identified and recently pioneered at the Muse is called MatterPort. MatterPort produces high-resolution and measurable scans which, when married to a comparison tool, enables the company, subcontractors, and clients to effectively “see through” walls to know what lies beneath the skin.

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