Notes from the team on BIM coordination, ISO 19650 in the African delivery context, engineering write-ups, and product updates.
We were paying for Autodesk Construction Cloud seats we never used, sweating the FX spread every month, and watching our coordinators screenshot clashes into WhatsApp groups because the official tool didn't work without 4G. So we built the thing we wished existed.
ISO 19650 was written with UK practice in mind. Most of it transposes cleanly to East African delivery — but some bits don't, and a few of the "best practice" guides from the UK BIM Framework will get you in trouble with local building authorities. Here's our running guide to what to adopt, what to adapt, and what to skip.
Five lessons from a year of building Planscape's mobile app for sites with no fibre, intermittent 4G, and the occasional total outage. Conflict resolution, replay queues, why we chose SQLite over Realm, and how the federated model loads on a 3-year-old Android.
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