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Plan Before You Pour
The cheapest change order is the one you catch before construction. Scanning the site with LiDAR, the data showing it halves change orders, the owner's-rep case for planning early, and why the field's lived experience still beats the drawings.
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Part 1 of 4 · DATA-LED
A Knocked Sprinkler Head Costs $10,000 a Minute: How LiDAR Scanning Cuts Change Orders
Scan first: how 3D LiDAR catches the problems that otherwise become change orders.
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Part 2 of 4 · EP 27
How 3D LiDAR Scanning Cuts Construction Change Orders by 50% — Colin Gillis, Smarter Spaces
Smarter Spaces' Colin Gillis shows LiDAR scanning cutting change orders by 50% — and why adoption here is still slow.
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Part 3 of 4 · EP 43
How to Save $1M on Your Next Construction Project — Owner’s Rep, Cost Estimating & Design-Build | Terry Hussey, Vigilant Atlantic
Terry Hussey built Atlantic Canada's first construction-management agency — the owner's-rep case for planning before you pour.
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Part 4 of 4 · ANECDOTAL
Listen to the People on the Tools: When the Field Out-Engineers the Drawings
And listen to the field — where the crew's lived experience beats the drawings.
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