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Project Preparation

Assemble accurate, tender-ready project data — fast

Before a project can be specified, you need the right data in one place and free of contradictions. LivingTWIN lets your project team assemble it from operational systems, resolve inconsistencies, and hand a clean package to contractors for quoting.

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In this workflow
Fork a project workface
Pull & reconcile source data
Baseline a project reference
Export a clean package to tender
The problem

Scoping a project starts with a data scavenger hunt

Assembling data from operational systems to specify a project is a huge undertaking. Get it wrong and you take on real risk — you open the door to change requests and rework, project delays and lower returns. The contradictions you miss now become the disputes you pay for later.

Slow manual take-off

Weeks of exporting, cleaning and cross-checking before you can even scope.

Contradictions surface late

Conflicts you missed appear mid-project, when they are expensive to fix.

Change requests & rework

Poor input data is a leading cause of scope changes and margin erosion.

Weak accountability

Without a clean baseline you can't hold suppliers to what you handed them.

The evidence

The price of starting from bad data

up to 25%

of project cost is lost to avoidable error — with inadequate planning and poorly coordinated information among the top causes1

14+ hrs

lost per person per week to non-productive work like hunting for project data2

5–10×

the cost to fix an error in execution vs. preparation — NASA puts operations-stage fixes at 29× or more3

80%

how far over budget large projects typically run4

Sources
  1. 1. Get It Right Initiative (GIRI), A Strategy for Change (2016, rev. 2019)
  2. 2. FMI / PlanGrid, Construction Disconnected (2018)
  3. 3. NASA, Error Cost Escalation Through the Project Life Cycle (Stecklein et al., 2004)
  4. 4. McKinsey, Imagining Construction's Digital Future (2016)
The solution

A clean package before anyone quotes

Project Preparation in LivingTWIN
1

Assemble in a project workface

Fork your as-operated twin or start fresh, and pull the relevant datasources into one place.

2

Resolve inconsistencies first

Work through flagged conflicts with issues and tasks — fix the data before it ever reaches a tender.

3

Baseline a reference

Lock a clean reference so you always know exactly what you handed over — and can measure change against it.

4

Hand over for quoting

Export as CSV or invite contractors directly — they quote against data they can trust.

Faster, cheaper mobilisation Fewer change requests Real supplier accountability Higher returns

Start your next project on solid data

Assemble your first project workface free and see how quickly a clean baseline comes together.

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