Solar Plant Design Configurator. Every discipline. Ground-mount solar designs from MW to GW.
Civil, mechanical and electrical design automation for ground-mount solar. Produces construction-ready drawings inside Autodesk AutoCAD, in a fraction of the time.
See Solar Plant Design Configurator in action
Reduction in design time across grading, drainage, road layout and cable routing
Proven on giga-scale renewable rollouts
Built for detailed engineering, not just pre-bid
Civil, Mechanical & Electrical
Productive quickly, even for freshers and less experienced designers
Manual design is slowing down every stage of your solar pipeline
Bid windows are tightening. Plant sizes are growing. And most design teams are still doing grading, cabling and layout work manually, block by block, discipline by discipline.
That means:
Slow design turnaround
Design turnaround time that puts EPC bids at risk before construction even starts
Rework at scale
Rework and errors that compound as project scale increases
Senior CAD dependency
Heavy dependency on a small pool of senior CAD engineers who can't scale with the pipeline
Disconnected workflows
Disconnected civil, electrical, and solar panel installation workflows that slow down handoff to construction teams
The bottleneck isn’t your team. It’s the manual process they’re working in.
One tool. Every discipline. Built for solar, built for scale.
Solar Plant Design Configurator is BuildNova's AI solar plant design automation tool, part of the BuildNova AI platform. It automates solar plant design end to end, civil, electrical, structural, and O&M, inside the AutoCAD environment your engineering teams already use.
No new software to learn. No switching between disconnected tools. No fragmented handoffs between design disciplines. One tool. One workflow. Design, document and hand off construction-ready output from a single source.
Core capability modules
Utility-scale civil design
Automated area grading, drainage and road layout with cut/fill BOQ and geotechnical layout, built for terrain accuracy and constructability at any scale.
Full electrical BOS design
String, DC, LT and HT cabling, trench layout and section marking, SCB grouping and tagging, inverter tagging, and earthing/lightning protection (ESE) layout, generated automatically.
Construction Ready Documentation
Consolidated quantity takeoffs spanning civil and electrical disciplines, plus general arrangement layouts and sectional drawings, ready for direct handoff to execution teams.
Built for how EPCs actually work, not just how design tools usually work
Construction-ready output, not just design files.
General arrangement layouts, sectional views and trench-level detail meant for direct handoff to execution teams.
One consolidated BOQ, and separate takeoffs.
Civil and electrical quantities generated together from a single design, cutting manual takeoff work.
Design support that continues after commissioning.
Cleaning-robot layout and docking station placement extend the configurator's value into O&M.
Built for scale, without losing consistency.
As a dedicated ground-mounted solar design software, quality doesn't degrade as project size grows from mid-size to utility and GW-scale plants.
Fully customizable to your standards.
Client-specific design standards, drawing formats and report formats, built in, not bolted on.
Native to AutoCAD versions.
No new platform to adopt, no workflow disruption — just automation inside the tool your teams already know.
What changes when design work stops being manual
Time savings
Months to weeks, weeks to days, days to hours, across nearly every major design task.
Fewer errors, more consistency
Automated generation reduces manual rework and design mistakes across teams.
Faster bid cycles
Quicker design turnaround improves competitiveness on time-sensitive EPC bids.
Lower dependency on scarce expertise
Junior engineers produce compliant, high-quality layouts without years of specialised experience.
Smoother handoff to construction
Construction-ready drawings and consolidated BOQ reduce friction between design, procurement and execution.
Fits existing workflows
Runs inside AutoCAD, so teams don't need to abandon familiar tools to adopt modern solar design software.
Solar design, solved. Powered by BuildNova AI.
See the configurator running on your own plant layout.