~90%

Reduction in design time across grading, drainage, road layout and cable routing

GW-scale

Proven on giga-scale renewable rollouts

Detailed Engineering

Built for detailed engineering, not just pre-bid

1 Tool, 3 Disciplines

 Civil, Mechanical & Electrical

Easy to adopt

Be 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

Built for how EPCs actually work, not just how design tools usually work

Engineers reviewing construction drawings at a solar plant site

Construction-ready output, not just design files.

General arrangement layouts, sectional views and trench-level detail meant for direct handoff to execution teams.

Cleaning robot servicing a row of solar panels

Design support that continues after commissioning.

Cleaning-robot layout and docking station placement extend the configurator's value into O&M.

Aerial view of a gigawatt-scale solar farm in repeating rows

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.

Designer working on a solar plant layout inside CAD software

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 on your own plant layout, or estimate the hours and cost it gives back to your team.