Labour market
Skills shortage & cost pressure
Construction is short of skilled workers, and the pressure grows every year. Automation is becoming a necessity — not a luxury.
The PRALEX ecosystem
Open platform for construction robots and machinery.
PRALEX connects BIM planning with robot-assisted execution on the construction site — through an open data format, a coordination layer and a modular robot platform.
Early development stage · concept demonstrator
Why PRALEX
The problem
Construction in the DACH region is automating — but without a shared foundation, that automation fragments. PRALEX starts there.
Standardisation
Avoiding a format zoo
Today every robot manufacturer builds its own interface to BIM. Without a common standard, dozens of incompatible island solutions pile up over the years.
Access
The hardware & certification hurdle
Anyone wanting to automate a construction process must first develop a safe mobile platform — a six-figure effort. Many sensible applications are therefore never built.
Ecosystem
The four building blocks of PRALEX
Instead of every manufacturer reinventing format, protocol and platform, we propose a shared foundation.
Robotic Construction Format
Open data format
An open format for work orders in construction robotics — as an extension of IFC. Compatible with any BIM tool that exports IFC.
Draft v0.1 in progress
PRALEX Link
Coordination server
Infrastructure for the construction site (cloud + on-site): distributes tasks, tracks status and coordinates several robots — built on ROS2.
In development
PRALEX Chassis
Modular platform
A mobile platform with a shared navigation module (3D LIDAR, laser distance sensor, AI camera), power and safety architecture. Third parties mount their tools via standardised interfaces.
Prototype · designed for CE conformity
PRALEX Engineering
BIM engineering
Preparing BIM models for execution: your model becomes an RCF-ready version with enriched work data.
Early service module
Architecture in development
Robots
Three robots, one platform
Different tasks on the construction site — built on the same idea. The marking robot is the current demonstrator; the others show where PRALEX is headed.
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All robots are concept visualisations · not a photo of an available product.
Current status
What exists today
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Robot 2 — marking robot
Our current demonstrator: transfers positions from the BIM model as physical markings onto the construction site — built on an Ackermann chassis. The flagship that shows what PRALEX makes possible.
Robot 3 — follow-me robot planned
A second prototype on a different platform — proof that PRALEX works independently of any single robot.
- Now Concept demo End to end: BIM → RCF → robot → marking.
- Next Pilot First pilot projects and partnerships.
- Later Product Step by step toward a full platform.
Open & IFC-compatible
Complement, don't compete
The Robotic Construction Format (.rcf) is designed as an open standard — not proprietary. It extends IFC via property sets (e.g. Pset_RcfArbeit) and complements existing standards rather than competing with them.
This direction follows the philosophy of buildingSMART. Anyone already working with IFC should be able to adopt RCF without friction.
About
Who's behind it
PRALEX is being built in Germany, focused on construction in the DACH region.
Currently a one-person, self-funded project in an early concept phase — drawing on experience in BIM/Revit and robotics. We build step by step and communicate openly about where we stand.
Contact
Get involved & contact
Three ways to get in touch: