datum (n.) — the established reference from which everything else is measured
Permanent records for the built environment.
Datum Point Advisory provides reality capture, existing-conditions modeling, and building-information advisory services.
Every building accumulates a record. Drawings, surveys, scans, models, photographs — produced by different teams, at different moments, to different standards.
Most of it is created as a byproduct of something else. A project needs a plan, so a plan gets made. When the project ends, what it produced scatters across consultants, contractors, and software platforms, in formats chosen by whoever happened to be holding the work.
Years later, someone needs to know what is actually there. What they find is rarely current, rarely complete, and rarely theirs.
A building's record can be treated as an asset instead. Captured deliberately, to a stated accuracy, in formats that outlast the tools that made them, and held by the party that owns the building.
Three decisions determine whether a building record holds its value.
What gets documented. At what accuracy. Who controls it afterward.
Most of the time none of the three are decided. They are inherited from whatever tool or workflow happened to produce the record.
Design & Construction
Existing conditions documented to the accuracy the design and coordination work require.
Owners
A building record you own, trust, and can still use in ten years.