What surveying costs you — and what a wrong dimension costs
Three numbers. The first you already pay. The second you pay when something is wrong. The third is the one nobody puts in the spreadsheet, and it is the biggest.
Two technicians, two to three hours, plus the drive. It is rarely costed as a line item because the technicians are on salary anyway — which is exactly why nobody ever examines it.
A car, a door or a frame that has to be remade. Sometimes the guide rails, sometimes the whole entrance. It is a real invoice, and it is the number everybody quotes.
The order goes back to the factory and the building waits. The manager who was promised a working lift gets a phone call instead, and your technician is the one making it.
The remade car is an invoice. The delay is a reputation.
That call costs more than the car. It costs the next building the same manager looks after, and the one they would have recommended you for.
The same shaft, two ways
| With a tape | With 3DLiftLens | |
|---|---|---|
| People on site | Two | One |
| Time in the building | Two to three hours | About twenty minutes |
| Where it is measured | Where a person can stand | Every 10 cm, over the whole height |
| Checking it six months later | Go back to the building | Open the model |
| What the supplier receives | Numbers on a drawing | The same numbers, with the shaft attached |
It does not remove the visit — someone still has to go to the building and scan. It shortens that visit and removes the second one. And in a shaft already full of equipment, the automatic figures may not come out at all.
Put one shaft through it
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