Every photo, pinned to the element it’s about.
Most condition assessments end their life as a spreadsheet and a folder of four hundred photos nobody can place. BIMspection anchors each observation to the actual column, beam or slab on your Revit model — and turns the site walk into the report.
Runs on any phone. Nothing to install in the field.
A photo without a location is just a photo.
The industry has excellent tools for construction QA. Condition assessment got left behind — most of it still runs on Excel, a camera roll, and the inspector’s memory of which level they were on.
The photo folder problem
IMG_4471.jpg shows a cracked beam. Six weeks later, nobody can say which beam, on which level, in which bay — including the person who took it.
The re-walk tax
Ambiguous findings get verified the expensive way: somebody drives back to the site to stand in front of the thing again.
The handoff gap
Owners and PMs receive a severity rating with no spatial context, so the finding is hard to prioritise, budget, or hand to a contractor.
Photograph it. Tap it. Ship it.
Three actions in the field. The report assembles itself from what you captured.
Photograph the defect
Capture on your phone, or pull from the gallery, and add a note. HEIC is converted automatically, so iPhone photos need no wrangling.
Tap the element
Touch the column or slab on the 3D model and the observation binds to that geometry — real world coordinates, not a pin dropped on a floor plan.
Rate and deliver
Set the FCI severity, then export a composite that shows the model, the photo, and a beam drawn between them — or email it from the field.
The export is the product.
Inspectors are paid to deliver reports, not to operate software. The composite puts the model view and the site photo side by side, with a beam funnelling from the marker on the geometry to the photo of what is wrong with it.
One image answers “where?”
Exports work the same indoors, where orientation is hardest. A reviewer who has never set foot in the building can place the finding immediately, at any level, in any bay.
Every export carries the model, the photograph, the note and the timestamp in a single file — so it survives being forwarded, printed, or dropped into a report years later without losing what it meant.
The model you already have.
BIMspection reads the Revit models your team already produces — 3D views and 2D sheets both — through the Autodesk Platform Services viewer. There is no separate model to prepare and no proprietary format to convert into.
Observations carry the element they were placed on, so findings can be grouped by what they are attached to rather than by the order they were photographed in.
Built for the basement of a parking garage.
That is not a figure of speech — the first project this was built for was a parking structure, which is exactly the kind of place where connectivity dies and a laptop is not welcome.
Bring it to your next assessment.
BIMspection is in active use on live inspection work and is opening to a small number of pilot firms.