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Glossary

A shared category needs a shared vocabulary. These are the canonical RDI terms.

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360 walk Capture: A structured 360-degree capture along a defined route, repeatable over time.
Access control Operations: The discipline of who can enter site, when, and through which route, evidenced by capture.
Action routing Foundations: Turning a finding into a task, observation, or escalation with a named owner.
As-built record Workflows: The verifiable record of how the project was actually built, used in handover.
Audit readiness Compliance: The state in which evidence required by a regulator or owner can be retrieved on demand.
BIM deviation Workflows: A discrepancy between the BIM model and as-built reality, surfaced through reality data.
Capture density Capture: The number of effective capture points per unit of project area or activity.
Capture plan Capture: The per-project plan that names what will be recorded, where, how often, and for how long.A capture plan is built from the workflows the project intends to support, not from a list of available cameras. It records who owns each capture point, what the trigger is, how often the record is reviewed, and what the retention period must be. The plan is revisited as the project changes shape.
Category boundary Foundations: The distinction between RDI and adjacent tool categories such as cameras, dashboards, or BIM.A category exists when buyers can name what is included and what is not. RDI sits next to cameras, AI dashboards, BIM, and project controls. Holding the boundary keeps each category honest and lets buyers choose between them on merit.
Chain of custody Evidence: The documented hand-off path of a piece of evidence from capture to use.Each step in the chain answers two questions: who held the record, and what could they have changed. A clean chain reduces the time spent re-establishing trust when an owner, insurer, or court reviews the record.
Claim substantiation Risk: The body of evidence assembled to support a formal claim or counterclaim.
Closeout archive Compliance: The long-lived evidence archive retained after handover for warranty and disputes.
Closeout record Workflows: The documented end-state of a workflow loop, kept for future reference.
Command layer Foundations: The portfolio and executive layer where patterns, exceptions, and outcome signals help leaders coordinate action across projects.
Command view Foundations: The cross-project portfolio view that helps leaders triage exceptions.
Commercial director Roles: The role accountable for project margin, claims, and contractual exposure.
Confidence band Economics: The published low, mid, and high range around an ROI assumption.
Coverage gap Capture: A part of the project programme that has no evidence layer, intentionally or otherwise.
Decision loop Workflows: The closed loop trigger, evidence, interpretation, action, and outcome that turns reality capture into a project decision.
Delay event Risk: A recorded event whose impact on the programme may be claimed for time, cost, or both.A delay event becomes useful only when its date, location, and duration can be cross-checked. Without that, the event is an assertion. With it, the event is a record that survives independent review by the owner, the contract administrator, and, if it gets that far, an adjudicator.
Delivery verification Operations: Confirming a delivery against its docket, including time, place, and contents.
Digital construction lead Roles: The person responsible for digital tools, BIM coordination, and reality data on a project.
Directional assumption Economics: A public assumption used to educate the market until project-specific data is available.
Dispute prevention Risk: Workflow design that reduces the likelihood of a dispute reaching a formal claim.
Drone survey Capture: A scheduled aerial capture for progress, earthworks, or safety review.
Escalation path Workflows: The named chain of people who receive an observation when no one closes it in time.
Evidence count Evidence: A signal in the workflow ledger showing how much customer or field evidence supports a workflow definition.
Evidence export Workflows: Preparing a clip or record in a format suitable for an owner, insurer, or court.
Evidence grade Evidence: Internal grading of a record by completeness, integrity, and chain of custody.
Evidence retrieval time Economics: How long it takes to locate and assemble a specific piece of project evidence.
Evidence saturation Capture: The point at which adding more raw recordings stops improving decision quality.
Evidence search Workflows: The act of finding the relevant clip or record for a specific decision.
Evidence stewardship Foundations: The practice of preserving, indexing, and curating evidence so future teams can use it.
Evidence window Evidence: The time period in which captured site reality must be preserved before it stops being useful for a claim, incident, or audit.The window opens when an event occurs and closes when the project no longer has a credible reason to retrieve the record. A claim window is set by contract; an incident window is set by regulators and insurers; an audit window is set by the owner or by statute. Workflows that lose evidence inside the window force teams to reconstruct events from recollection, which is the failure mode RDI exists to prevent.
Fixed camera view Capture: A persistent camera position whose framing does not change between captures.
Gate record Operations: Captured movement of vehicles, people, and deliveries through a controlled access point.
Ground truth Evidence: Time-aligned, location-aware evidence of what happened on site, created from cameras, 360 capture, drone imagery, records, and related site data.
Handover pack Compliance: The closeout deliverable assembled from progress, quality, and compliance evidence.
Incident record Risk: The assembled evidence and witness account of a reportable safety event.An incident record is built quickly and preserved carefully. It pairs the captured visual record with the written account, the medical record where relevant, and the regulator submission. The record is the artefact that survives; everything else is recollection.
Interpretation layer Foundations: The analysis step where captured reality becomes a finding with meaning and ownership.
Manual reporting load Economics: The recurring time cost of preparing progress and safety updates without automation.
Material trace Operations: The link between a delivery, its location on site, and its installation record.
Meeting evidence pack Workflows: The evidence assembled before an OAC, programme, or safety meeting.
Mobile capture Capture: Opportunistic site walks recorded by phone, helmet, or wearable.
OAC meeting Roles: Owner, architect, and contractor coordination meeting where progress evidence is reviewed.
Observation Workflows: A tagged finding routed to an owner with an expected response time.
Outcome measurement Foundations: The closing measurement step that records whether the action changed the project.
Package manager Roles: The person accountable for a single trade or works package.
Pattern of recurrence Foundations: Repeated evidence of the same exception across projects, escalated to the command view.
Payment evidence Economics: The evidence that supports or disputes an interim payment application.
Portfolio pattern Foundations: A recurring exception across projects that the command view turns into a programme of work.
Programme baseline Workflows: The agreed reference programme against which actual progress is compared.
Progress claim Economics: An interim or final claim for payment based on quantified work in place.
Progress evidence Workflows: Evidence assembled to demonstrate or dispute the state of physical work at a date.
Quality non-conformance Workflows: A documented deviation between as-built reality and design intent.
Reality-driven decision Foundations: A project decision made with time-aligned, location-aware evidence rather than recollection.
Reality-Driven Intelligence Foundations: A construction intelligence discipline that turns captured site reality into ground truth, interpretation, action, and project-level command.
Regulatory event Compliance: An inspection, audit, or finding that requires documented project evidence.
Replacement workflow Workflows: A workflow where RDI replaces a manual or third-party service the project already pays for.
Risk mitigation credit Economics: The value attributed to avoiding a low-frequency, high-cost project event.A credit is sized by the cost of the event, the probability of recurrence, and the share of risk an evidence layer can plausibly remove. Credits are presented with a confidence band rather than as a point estimate, so the conversation stays honest.
Safety observation Risk: A recorded near-miss, hazard, or unsafe act that becomes part of a safety workflow.
Stand-down Risk: An interruption to work, recorded so its programme impact can be quantified.
Subcontractor attendance Operations: Verifiable evidence of who was on site, when, and at what package.
Supporting workflow Workflows: A workflow where RDI supports an existing process rather than replacing it.
Theft investigation Risk: The post-incident workflow that uses captured records to identify when and how property left site.
Time-aligned record Evidence: A record whose timestamps can be cross-checked against schedule, weather, and gate data.
Time-lapse Capture: A compressed visual record of progress at a fixed view, used for reporting and review.
Weather claim Risk: A claim for time or cost rooted in weather conditions, evidenced by site capture and meteorology.
Weather record Evidence: The time-aligned weather data attached to a delay event for substantiation.
Workflow pack Workflows: A reusable group of workflows connected by a common site problem, evidence type, decision, and value pattern.