The site as a surface.
The site as it is, in three dimensions, measurable by anyone who opens it: the ground on a 5 cm grid with the plant and the vegetation taken out, and the top surface with everything standing left in. Section it anywhere, difference it against design, hand it to the coordination call.
What it does
One flight leaves two surfaces on the record: the ground as it is graded, with vegetation, plant and formwork taken out of it, and the top of everything standing on the site. Both are measurable by anyone who opens them, and both carry the accuracy they were made to.
Take a section anywhere and read the profile against the design line. Difference this week's ground against last week's and the answer is a quantity. Hand the surface to the coordination model or the civil package — it arrives in the format the receiving engineer already opens.
In practice
- 01
Ask for a section
Any chainage, any face, any date on the record. The profile comes back against the design line with the accuracy it was measured to, in the time it takes to say where.
- 02
Difference two dates
Pick this week and last week, or today and the original ground, and the answer is a volume with its ± beside it — not an estimate somebody made standing on the pad.
- 03
Send it on
The same surface goes to the coordination model, the civil package and the machine on the ground, in the format each of them already opens. Nothing is redrawn on the way.
Spec
- SURFACES
- GROUND + TOP
- GRID
- 5 CM
- SECTIONS
- ANYWHERE, ANY DATE
- OPENS IN
- YOUR OWN TOOLS
5 cm
Grid the site's surfaces are held to