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Owners and operators · Use case 01

Your standards, checked on every design issue

We have a design standard. Finding out whether this project follows it takes a review team and a month.

Early design runs several options in parallel, and a technology change can land mid-design. Load your standard, your basis of design or an open specification beside the project documents. Criad checks each option and each design issue against it, element by element, and lists the departures with the clause and the measurement, so your reviewers spend their time on the judgement calls.

Every answer cites its source. People decide.

How it works

Ask. Inspect. Verify. Publish.

1

Ask

A plain-language question.

"Where does this design issue depart from our standard?"
2

Inspect

The full blast radius, on the model.

The elements that fail a requirement, on the model, grouped by hall and by system.
3

Verify

Checked against the governing drawings and specs.

Each requirement is checked against the model and the project spec. Where the project spec and your standard disagree, both are shown and the governing one is named.
4

Publish

A dashboard, report or register, citations attached.

A departures register per design issue, clause and measurement attached, re-run when the next issue lands.
Worked example

One job, start to finish.

Values come from a structured reference campus, not from a client project.

Reference campus
  1. 01

    Reference campus: the requirement sets a cabinet depth limit of 0.92 m.

  2. 02

    The model shows 0.90 m: pass, on all 96 cabinets.

  3. 03

    A requested 1.0 m product would be 0.08 m over, and is listed as a departure for a person to accept or reject.

  4. 04

    The same checks run again on the next design issue and on the next site.

Owner standard against product data · rack envelope

governs
PDFRack specificationpage 42 of 118

Envelope clause

Racks shall fit the envelope

0.60 × 1.20 × 2.00 m (W × D × H)

at every position shown on the layout.

42 of 118

Ranked by authority

Positions checked on the model

240 of 240 fail on height

PDFOpen Rack V3 base specificationpage 3 of 12

Public specification, rev 1.1

Width 600 mm · depth 1,068 mm

Height 2,286 mm

Load rating 1,400 kg

3 of 12

Width and depth fit. The 2.286 m height exceeds the 2.00 m envelope at every position. Departure listed for the designers.

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