In construction, knowledge has historically been siloed—locked in drawings, contracts, and institutional memory. Epistemology, the study of how we know what we know, becomes the foundation of every decision. When teams align on how knowledge is gathered, verified, and applied, they create the conditions for predictable outcomes.
Ontology, by contrast, defines what exists. It is the data model of reality itself—the structure of every system, component, activity, and constraint. In OntaBuild’s approach, epistemology informs ontology. We first build confidence in what we know, then formalize that knowledge into machine‑readable delivery frameworks.
The result is a living ecosystem of data—forecasts that learn, contracts that align incentives to probability bands, and governance models that evolve with each project. The epistemological shift precedes the ontological one; together, they define a new way to build with certainty.