Scope risk management
Design drift is eating your return
The number was set at feasibility; the design develops for eighteen months after it. CIM reads every revision against the brief you underwrote, flags the scope the design has picked up, and cites each finding to the page. You see it while the drawing is still cheap to change.
Trusted by leading Australian builders
“CIM Build pointed to new opportunities to de-risk project documentation and procurement.”
Where the drift starts
Every developer-builder carries it alone
You underwrote the project on a brief and a concept set, then handed it to consultants you engage and a delivery team you employ. Everything after that is design development, and design development adds - a slab thickens, a facade system changes, the services reservation grows. Each change is defensible on its own and none of them arrive as change order, because there is no counterparty to raise one against. Eighteen months later the cost report catches up with decisions nobody costed at the time.
Where it costs you
It comes off the return, every time
A change found late costs rework and the holding time to fix it
Nobody is checking your consultants except you
The gap in your risk register
The bottleneck is human review capacity
Every revision lands as hundreds of sheets, and one person reads them between site walks and consultant meetings. The unclouded changes slip past the desk and surface months later as rework nobody priced and time you carry, while review capacity stays flat and the return absorbs the difference.
Introducing CIM
Scope risk, managed from feasibility to substantial completion
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 design stops moving the number without anyone noticing.
Every revision checked against the brief you underwrote
Every issue read against your brief and the other disciplines
The sales documents checked against the current set
A dated record of every change, built as the job runs
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