08:05Capture
The inspection opens the record.
One tap starts it. From here, everything captured lands in this project, this inspection, with the engineer's name on it.
One inspection, start to finish
A first-fix fire-stopping inspection, as it actually happens.
One morning on a house extension in Dublin 4. Every screen is the proposed product. Nothing here is typed up at the desk afterwards, and that is the point.
On site · 08:05 to 09:10
08:22Mark up
Four photos of the riser penetrations, pinned to the drawing.
No signal in the riser. The photos are taken anyway, stamped with time and location, and dropped as Pin 1 on Plan A-101, Rev C. They upload when coverage returns.
Every pin has a type and a status.
Tap one and its finding, photos and task open beside the plan. A pin on Rev C is never confused with Rev B.
08:24Capture
Three minutes, three linked entries.
Hands full on the scaffold, so it is said out loud, not typed. By 08:27 the observation is a finding and the finding is somebody's job.
- 08:24Voice note, 42 seconds, transcribed.“The collar isn't seated square.” In the record before the boards go on.
- 08:26Finding #14 raised, Moderate.Linked to the same pin and the same inspection, with the photos as evidence.
- 08:27Task to the contractor.Re-seat the fire collar, riser 2. Owner and due date attached.
08:30Capture
Every photo knows who, where and why.
A photo without a project, a location and a reason does not exist here. The camera-roll problem goes away because the camera roll is never the record.
08:34Capture
Some photos are there to prove the work was right.
The slab pour and the scaffold strike-down are filed as Progress, with the same time, location and inspector stamps as a defect photo. When someone asks later whether the pour was seen before it was covered, the record shows it was.
08:40Ask
“Which fire-stopping findings are overdue?”
The assistant reads this project's records and the firm's own knowledge base, the uploaded specifications and the Irish regulation packs. Every answer carries the source chip it came from. Ask what the guidance requires where the riser services pass through the compartment wall and it answers from Technical Guidance Document B and the firm's own fire-stopping specification, citing both. It drafts the follow-up note; it never sends it.
What you let it read.
The standard packs come switched on: the Building Regulations Technical Guidance Documents, the BCAR Code of Practice and the Uisce Éireann codes of practice. Your own specifications, checklists, past reports and planning conditions sit underneath, private to your organisation, and each one can be switched on or off for a project.
09:10Report
Pick the template, pick the sources, read the draft.
The draft cites only records inside the sources chosen, and it is reviewed and edited before it becomes a watermarked PDF. Nothing is written from memory, because nothing has to be.
The report is finished before you leave site.
The days after
Day 3Follow up
The contractor, or you, closes it when the work is done, and photographs the fix.
The finding stays open until the work is done and the evidence is attached. The close-out photo lands in the same record, under the same pin.
Day 12Record
The stage is signed, with nothing open behind it.
A stage cannot be signed off while it has an open finding. When the last one closes, the inspection plan, the stage record and the certificates already agree with each other.
