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Scoping a damaged dock
door from the model,
without a site visit

The property

A distribution warehouse — dock doors, the structure carrying them and the clearances around them.

Industry

Worked example / Logistics and warehousing

What runs on the twin

Element-level scope, measured dimensions, comparable quotes

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About this example

This is a worked example on a warehouse demo twin rather than a customer deployment. It follows one damaged dock door from the model to three comparable quotes, using dimensions already carried on the element instead of measured again on site by each contractor.

The Challenge: A site visit
for every quote

The problem this example is built around: three quotes means three contractors on site on three different days, each measuring the same opening and each reading the surrounding structure differently, while the building keeps running around them.

Three comparable quotes in the same week, with no site visits — the contractors work from better information than they would get standing in the doorway.

Worked example On a warehouse demo twin — not a customer deployment

The opening, measured once

The door, its frame, the structure carrying it and the clearances around it were already in the model. The scope went out with real dimensions attached, so every quote priced the same job instead of each contractor's reading of it.

What made the difference was not speed alone — it was that the three numbers were comparable. Choosing between them became a decision about the contractor rather than about whose measurements to believe.

  • Measured once:
    The opening, its frame and the structure carrying it are already in the model.

  • Comparable quotes:
    Every contractor prices the same dimensions instead of their own survey.

  • No site visit needed:
    The scope goes out with the geometry attached to it.

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