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Omnium International, the construction consultancy behind five decades of landmark projects, today announced the launch of IOX, a new joint venture with technology company Innovaite.

IOX has been created to help the built environment respond to a fast-changing market with stronger data, better tools and trusted AI. Its founding principle is simple: technology built by the people who lived the challenges.

The venture brings together two complementary strengths. Omnium contributes 50 years of deep industry expertise, trusted client relationships and valuable project data drawn from work on some of the world's most significant developments, including the Burj Khalifa, One Za’abeel, Atlantis the Royal, the Expo 2020 Pavilions, Jeddah Tower and Al Ula. Innovaite contributes the technology, product and AI capability to transform that expertise into scalable intelligence, rapidly turning ideas into solutions that create measurable impact.

The result is technology shaped by real industry knowledge, not generic tools pushed into the market from the outside.

"For more than 50 years, Omnium has been trusted to support some of the most ambitious and complex projects in the region and beyond,” said Nicholas Harris, Managing Director of Omnium International. “IOX represents an important next chapter in that journey. This is not about replacing the expertise, judgement and relationships that have made Omnium who we are. It is about strengthening them, giving our people and our clients better tools, clearer insight and greater opportunity to create value. We are building IOX from a position of real strength, with a clear understanding of the challenges our industry faces and the role we can play in helping to solve them.”

IOX launches with a platform focused on CapEx cost intelligence, beginning with four capabilities:

• IO Procure — an AI-enabled tender analysis solution that turns complex submissions into clearer, faster commercial decisions. By automating analysis and identifying commercial risk earlier, it can reduce the time required to complete a full commercial tender evaluation by up to 80% while creating reusable procurement intelligence for future benchmarking and supplier insight.
• IO Insight — a searchable rates and cost intelligence library with an AI assistant for instant, data-backed answers.
• IO Master — AI-enabled cost modelling and benchmarking that produces early estimates in hours rather than weeks.
• IO Translate — translation between measurement and design standards, reducing delays and improving consistency.

The longer-term ambition is broader still: a connected platform that supports multiple parts of the construction value chain, from project management and schedule risk to claims and dispute resolution.

"Across our industry, data is everywhere, but it's fragmented, and our people spend too long chasing information that should be at their fingertips," said Tim Shelton, Operations Director for Technology and Advisory at Omnium and CEO of IOX. "IOX removes those speed bumps. Every tool is shaped through workshops, user feedback and the expertise of the people who do this work every day. We're not adding AI for effect. We're using it where it genuinely helps and always with human judgement at the centre."

A core commitment of IOX is responsible, governed AI. The platform runs advanced AI models within a controlled architecture designed to protect client and corporate data, with human review built into every output. The approach reflects the wider industry direction, including the role of professional bodies such as RICS in promoting responsible AI and future professional skills.

“Too much technology entering the built environment is built by people who have never delivered a project,” said Gavin Britton, CEO and Co-Founder of Innovaite and Chief Product Officer at IOX. “IOX is different. By combining Innovaite’s product and AI capability with Omnium’s deep industry knowledge, we can build solutions around real problems, not assumptions. “This is what happens when technology and industry expertise are designed together from day one: tools that are practical, relevant and built for the people who will actually use them.”

IOX will continue to evolve with input from across the business and the wider market, supported by an ambassador programme, an external advisory board made up of leading voices from the construction industry and beyond and a growing pipeline of new capabilities.

About Omnium International:

Established for over 50 years, Omnium International is a niche, international and fully independent construction consultancy. Headquartered in Cyprus, Omnium has worked across Dubai, the wider Middle East, the UK and Europe, on some of the world’s most iconic projects such as Downtown Dubai, Atlantis the Royal, Jeddah Tower, Dubai’s Expo 2020 Pavilions and Al Ula.

About Innovaite:

Innovaite is a digital, data and solution development consultancy created to help organisations move from strategy to execution with greater clarity, confidence and impact. With a focus on practical innovation, rapid prototyping and measurable outcomes, Innovaite bridges the gap between advisory and implementation, helping organisations turn complex challenges into intelligent, usable and future-ready solutions.

About IOX:

IOX is a joint venture between Omnium International and Innovaite. Built by the people who lived the challenges, IOX exists to help the built environment turn fragmented data into clearer decisions, faster workflows and practical solutions, reducing delay, improving certainty and creating stronger foundations for a more capable, connected and resilient industry.

Nicholas Harris MD Omnium and Gavin Britton CPO Innovaite