Pre-Submission QA for UAE Construction
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Carbaba turns complex drawing sets into structured compliance reviews, so developers, PMCs, and construction teams catch building-code and coordination issues before they reach the municipality or the field.
Supported by Mohammed Bin Rashid Fund for SMEs
Manual compliance checking cannot keep pace with the region's ambition.
pages of building code, developer standards, and plot regulations to track on every project
of engineer time per submission cycle, repeated on every resubmission
of mid-to-large UAE firms still rely on spreadsheets and manual dimension checks
Every municipality comment triggers redesign, re-coordination, and delay. And issues rarely appear once — a single unaddressed condition on one typical floor repeats up the entire unit stack and across every coordinated discipline, so the cost compounds the later it's found. As authorities move toward automated checking, manual workflows are becoming a competitive liability.
Two engines. One platform.
Compliance Copilot
Pre-submission building-code review for developers and PMCs
Upload your architectural drawings. Carbaba checks them against ADIBC 2013, UAE Fire & Life Safety Code, DCR plot regulations, accessibility standards, and even private standards, returning a structured report with exact measurements, clause references, and remediation guidance.
- —Deterministic rule registry tied directly to code clauses
- —Room-by-room dimensional verification from floor geometry
- —Flags, never guesses, what a drawing can't prove
Shop Drawing QA
Drawing-to-drawing cross-check for construction teams
Upload the consultant's Issued-For-Construction (IFC) drawing alongside the contractor's shop drawing. Carbaba aligns grid references across scales, compares dimensions element by element, and surfaces mismatches, missing elements, and coordination gaps before they become field problems.
- —Automated alignment across different scales and detail levels
- —Dimensional comparison across 1,000+ elements per sheet
- —Discrepancy classification by severity and trade impact
From drawings to decisions in hours, not weeks.
Upload Drawings
DXF, DWG, IFC, or PDF, no manual conversion needed. Select the project, floor, and discipline. Carbaba reads the file directly.
AI-Powered Analysis
Geometry is extracted from floor entities and measured wall-face-to-wall-face, not estimated from pixels. Every measurement is compared against a deterministic rule registry of hundreds of code requirements.
Structured Report
A compliance scoreboard with pass, fail, and flagged counts. Every finding shows the measured value, the required threshold, the exact clause, and recommended remediation, in English and Arabic.
Pilot results from a G+11 residential tower in Abu Dhabi.
A systemic finding, caught before it reached the municipality.
A leading Abu Dhabi developer applied Carbaba to a G+11 residential tower at the detailed-design stage. Two typical floors were reviewed against compliance code, covering egress, accessibility, fire and smoke protection, interior dimensions, ventilation, setbacks, high-rise provisions, and plumbing.
Carbaba flagged a systemic accessible-door-width shortfall, bathroom doors measuring roughly 711mm clear against the 806mm Type B minimum (§1008.1.1 Exception 8). Because the same door specification repeats on every typical floor, the issue propagated building-wide, yet a single specification change resolves all of it. Caught before submission, it cost a hardware revision instead of a building-wide redesign and a rejection cycle.
Read the Full Case Study →“One line in a door schedule. Hundreds of non-compliant doors across the tower. A pre-submission check is the difference between fixing the line and redrawing every floor.”G+11 Residential Tower · Abu Dhabi · Detailed Design Stage
Built for the region. Built for precision.
Purpose-built for UAE codes and workflows
Not a US tool adapted for the Gulf. Carbaba is engineered from the ground up for ADIBC, DCR, Estidama, and Abu Dhabi/Dubai submission processes.
Deterministic rule registry — not a black-box chatbot
Every code threshold is extracted from the published standard and stored in a versioned registry. No hallucinated clause numbers, no probabilistic compliance guesses. §1008.1.1 always returns 806mm, on every run.
Geometry from CAD, not pixels
We parse DXF and DWG entities directly, walls, doors, arcs, corridors, and measure wall-face-to-wall-face from real geometry, not rasterized images.
Bilingual reporting in English and Arabic
Ready-to-submit reports that match the format and language requirements of UAE municipalities and client organizations.
Emirati-founded, nationally supported
Built and operated by an Emirati-founded team, supported by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Fund for SMEs, aligned with UAE digital-transformation and smart-government agendas.
What developers and PMCs ask before running a pilot.
No. Carbaba is a pre-submission QA/QC tool — an independent check before the set goes to the engineer of record or the municipality. It does not certify compliance and does not replace any licensed sign-off. Think of it as a structured internal review that catches issues before they become expensive external comments.
The registry references ADIBC, DCR setback regulations, Estidama provisions, alongside UAE Fire & Life Safety considerations and any other private compliance codes. It's versioned — as Abu Dhabi adopts newer editions, the registry updates and existing reports can be re-run against the new version.
Yes — Revit-exported DXF is the primary, validated input, the pilot ran entirely on Revit-exported files. AutoCAD native DXF is also supported. IFC drawings feed the Shop Drawing QA workflow.
They're classified as FLAGGED — not PASS, not FAIL. This means Carbaba can't make a determination from the documents provided. The system states its own verification boundary and lists what's needed for a complete check. This is by design: most of any building code can't be proven by a floor plan, and we won't pretend otherwise.
Municipal automated checking (where it exists) runs after submission. If it finds an issue, you get a comment that triggers a resubmission cycle — typically weeks. Carbaba runs before submission, during design, when changes are cheap. The same finding costs a drawing revision now, or a resubmission, redesign, consultant remobilisation, and programme delay later.
The pilot runs on one typical floor of your current set. You provide the DXF/DWG/PDF/IFCs; Carbaba returns a full compliance report, covering the applicable requirements with per-unit verification and full finding cards for every item. It's conducted to establish fit before any commercial discussion.
Ready to de-risk your next submission?
Talk to us about running Carbaba on your current project. We work with developers, PMCs, and construction teams across Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Or reach us directly: Info@carbaba.ai · +971 50 631 8499