Practitioner course / 102 min
Capture Planning and Coverage
A practitioner course for digital construction leads, planners, and project directors who decide where the cameras, 360 routes, and drone flights go. The course moves capture decisions from camera counts to workflow-led coverage and treats the capture plan as a living document that travels with the project.
Introduction
Capture Planning and Coverage
Capture decisions on a live project are resourcing decisions: tower crane mounting brackets, helmet cameras for confined-space inspections, 360 route discipline through scaffold churn, drone cadence on linear infrastructure, and retention budgets that have to survive a six-year warranty. This course treats those choices as the day job of the digital construction lead and the project planner, not the supplier. Each lesson works through a capture problem from the workflows backwards, names the trade-offs, and shows the failure modes that show up when the plan is left to procurement.
What you will learn
- Translate workflow scope into a capture plan rather than a camera schedule.
- Plan coverage by workflow first and area second, with named overlays where the workflow view leaves a residual risk.
- Choose between fixed, mobile, 360, and drone capture for each evidence requirement, and combine them without paying for redundancy.
- Recognise evidence saturation and prune the capture plan without weakening the workflows it supports.
- Run a scheduled and trigger-based revision cycle that keeps the plan current as packages, fronts, and risks change.
- Hand the capture plan and its archive over together, so the owner inherits a usable record rather than an orphaned set of files.
Who this is for
Digital construction lead · Project planner · Project director · BIM coordinator · Site logistics manager
Chapters
6 chapters · 102 minutes
- Chapter 01From camera count to capture planWhy the procurement question "how many cameras?" produces the wrong plan, and how a workflow-led capture plan changes the conversation, the budget, and the project outcome.17 min
- Chapter 02Coverage by workflow, not by areaWhy coverage planned by area produces gaps the workflows hit, and how planning by workflow first inverts the failure mode without abandoning the safety and security overlays that area-led plans get right.18 min
- Chapter 03Fixed, mobile, 360, and droneHow to choose between the four main capture modalities for each workflow and combine them so the project gets coverage without paying twice for the same evidence.19 min
- Chapter 04Evidence saturation and pruningWhen more capture stops improving decisions, how to recognise saturation in the time-to-find and tagging metrics, and how to prune the plan without weakening the workflows it supports.16 min
- Chapter 05Revisions as the project evolvesWhy a capture plan is a living document, how to schedule revisions so it stays aligned to the project, and which triggers should bring a section of the plan back to the table immediately.16 min
- Chapter 06Handover of the capture planHow the capture plan transitions at handover, what survives into warranty, and how to leave the owner with a record that is usable years later rather than a folder no one can navigate.16 min