Scope risk management
The turnover date is the only KPI
Design starts three years before construction, and the rack specs it was drawn around change more than once before the hall is built. CIM reads every revision against the last, flags the misses and clashes while they are still drawings, and cites each finding to the sheet - so they are resolved before they arrive as RFIs.
Trusted by the builders delivering Australian projects
“CIM Build pointed to new opportunities to de-risk project documentation and procurement.”
Where the exposure starts
Designed three years out, against requirements that keep moving
Design begins around three years before construction, with the buffer built in for permitting and delivery. Nothing holds still across that window. Rack data is out of date within a month or two of release, densities and cooling approaches change, and the design philosophy the job started under is not the one it finishes under. At the same time the boom has pulled experienced consultants into other work, so more of the set is produced by people seeing a data center for the first time. Design misses are the result, and they account for around half of every variation register - each one small on its own, and each one a decision that has to be made without stalling the job.
Where it costs you
Every RFI is time you have not got
A site change made in 2D only clashes during installation, months later
A structural or architectural miss costs more time than any services clash
The gap in your risk register
The bottleneck is human review capacity
Every revision lands as hundreds of sheets across civil, structural, architectural and services, and one design manager reads them between consultant calls and site walks. The misses slip past the desk and come back as RFIs and variations that get paid to keep the job moving, while review capacity stays flat and the schedule absorbs the difference.
Introducing CIM
Scope risk, managed from concept design to turnover
CIM.BUILDDesign risk register
3 gaps · trades not yet bought outDR-102Awning steel shown on arch, absent from structural setSteelworkRFI before award
DR-108Kitchen exhaust riser undocumented above L2MechanicalScope gap flagged
DR-115Guardrail fixing detail missing - added to package scopeFacadeScoped into package
Every gap lands in the register before procurement - qualified, RFI'd or scoped into the package.
Under the hood
How Construction Intelligence Management Is Built
Seven floors, built to house your project intelligence.
What your estimators priced, what your team assumed and every revision since all live in here. The stack runs on its own, on every revision that lands, and brings your team what it finds. Keep scrolling - the tower comes apart floor by floor.
Outcomes
The turnover date stops depending on who read the drawings.
The ambiguities that generate RFIs, found before issue
Every revision read within hours of it landing
Civil, structural and architectural read against the specs
Your past findings running as checks on every new set
What the industry says
“CIM Build pointed to new opportunities to de-risk project documentation and procurement. It's pleasing to see how the transformation of construction is accelerating now that the serious players have embraced what good looks like. The days of starting projects with only part documentation are now in the rear view mirror.”
David Chandler OAM
Former NSW Building Commissioner
Why we built CIM
“I've sat through too many design meetings where everyone assumed someone else had checked it. Drawings were technically ‘issued’, procurement moved and the risk only showed up once money was already committed. CIM exists to identify those risks early - before they turn into arguments, delays, or margin erosion.”
Kevin Le
Co-Founder of CIM Build · a decade managing construction projects