Bulk digs, basements and trenches measured against design every single day. The surface is flown before the first bucket, the cut is quantified before the trucks are paid, and the formation is caught before anyone digs past it.
Capture · Mission 03
The sheet above is a drawing of this. 10 capture waypoints, and every finding called as the aircraft reaches it — scroll sets the target, the mission keeps its own pace, and the page waits for it.
Sector · Excavations
Four sheeted faces, three prop frames and eighty-four thousand cubic metres — measured against the design line before the trucks are paid and before anybody digs past it.
Overdig is invisible until the concrete bill arrives. A formation 60 mm low across 240 m² is a lorry of lean mix nobody quoted for, and it is under blinding by the time anybody notices.
The dig surface is differenced against the design box every day at a 5 cm grid. Anything below the line is flagged as an area and a depth on the shift it happened, while the machine is still standing on it.
Props, walings and sheet-pile toes get checked when the temporary works engineer is on site, which is Tuesdays. What the box does on Thursday afternoon is a phone call from a foreman.
Every capture carries the shoring with it. A prop out of line, a lifted strut plate or a berm cut early is raised off the frame, assigned to a name and closed on the record — mean time to close 4.1 hours.
The haulier invoices 412 loads. The site diary says 380-something. Neither number has anything behind it, so the difference gets split and the job swallows it.
The volume out of the box is measured rather than counted: this week's surface against last week's, converted at the density on the ticket. The claim is paid against the hole that is actually gone.
84,000 m³
Bulk cut out of the box to date
0.4%
Overdig against the design line
5×/week
Captures — the hole measured daily
The program runs on the box's own clock — the first bucket, the stage change, the haulier's claim. The hole is measured every working day, and nothing on this list stands a machine down.
Daily at 07:05, before the first bucket
Three passes over box B before the shift digs. The surface is differenced against the design box at a 5 cm grid, so anything below the line is an area and a depth on the day it happened.
PASSES 3 · GRID 5CM · CUT 84,000M³Each stage, from setups on the dig floor
A scanner on the formation catches what the flight cannot see — under the struts, in the lift pit below formation — before 50 mm of blinding covers what was cut.
SETUPS 4 · STAGE 4 OF 6 · BLINDING 50MMWith every capture, between the Tuesday inspections
The walls ride every capture. INC-03 plots deflection against the dig stage — 18 mm at stage 4 — and the dewatering well's 12 L/s lands on the same record as the day's surface.
INC-03 MAX 18MM · DW-06 12 L/SWeekly, when the haulier's claim lands
The volume out of the box is measured, not counted: this week's surface against last week's, converted at the density on the ticket. The claim is paid against the hole that is actually gone.
CUT 84,000M³ · CLAIMED VS VERIFIEDThe dig surface is differenced against the design box at a 5 cm grid every working day. Overdig on box B stands at 0.4% — and when the formation went 60 mm low over 240 m², it was flagged at 11:40, while the machine was still standing on it.
OVERDIG 0.4% · GRID 5CM · DAILYNo. The surface is flown at 07:05, before the first bucket, and the numbers land while the shift works. The morning the low spot was flagged, the dig moved at 11:52 — twelve minutes, not a stood-down machine.
FLOWN 07:05 · FLAGGED 11:40 · MOVED 11:52The measured hole. The volume out of the box is this week's surface against last week's, converted at the density on the ticket — 84,000 m³ to date carries a survey behind it, so the claim is settled instead of split.
CUT 84,000M³ · CLAIMED VS VERIFIEDEvery capture does. A prop out of line, a lifted strut plate or a berm cut early is raised off the frame, assigned to a name and closed at a 4.1-hour mean — and INC-03's 18 mm of wall movement is plotted against the stage, not discovered on Tuesday.
TTR 4.1H · INC-03 MAX 18MMThe record reads anywhere on the surface. The bench against the west wall carries 205 m³ still to trim, the lift pit sits below formation at stage 4 of 6, and both are measured on the same 5 cm grid as the rest of the box.
BENCH 205M³ · STAGE 4 OF 6The formation as it was struck. The floor is captured before 50 mm of blinding covers it, so what is under the slab is a surface on the record — not a memory defended two years later.
FORMATION · BLINDING 50MMRead overnight on a box like this one: the daily dig flight, the formation scans, the wall round and the haulier's tickets against the measured surface. Three of the 27 profiles wake up to it.
05:40 · BOX B · CAPPING BEAM
SEQUENCE
Formation at prop level 2 read 60 mm low over 240 m² — the dig moved at 11:52, nobody ordered lean mix, and today's 07:05 flight reads the fix before the first bucket.
CITES: FLIGHT 07:05 · DESIGN BOX · SE-12 REV F
06:05 · BOX B · PROP LEVEL 2
TODAY
Night shift cut 3,120 m³ and 41 loads left the gate. The bench on the west wall still carries 205 m³ to trim, and the machine stays in the lift pit until it is called off.
CITES: DIG SURFACE 07:05 · NIGHT LOG · GATE COUNT
05:55 · BOX B · WEST WALL
HAZARD
The walls are read with every capture: INC-03 tops out at 18 mm against the stage, DW-06 holds 12 L/s, and anything seen on a frame is assigned by name with a 4.1-hour mean close.
CITES: INC-03 · DW-06 · OBSERVATION LOG
Earthworks quantities and stockpile volumes reconciled against design
VOLUME ±1.8% · NIGHTLYPay for work that is provably there
CLAIMED VS VERIFIEDAnything seen, logged, assigned, and closed
MEAN TTR 4.1HEvery measurement states the accuracy it was made to
FIX ±1.2CM · SATS 28Maps processed on the controller, in the field, offline
40MIN CAPTURE→MAP · OFFLINEFigures are a specimen record, drawn to the platform's own conventions.
Send us the design box and a week of tickets — we will fly one morning's capture and hand you the dig surface, the overdig map and the measured muck-away volume.