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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 measures 0.925 m: the 0.90 m body plus a 25 mm front panel. 5 mm over, on all 96 cabinets, and listed as a departure.

  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.

Spec against submittal · electrical cabinet depth

governs
PDFElectrical specificationpage 42 of 118

Cabinet envelope clause

Free-standing cabinets shall fit the

envelope shown on the layout drawings.

Depth shall not exceed 0.92 m.

Deeper units require a design change.

42 of 118

Ranked by authority

Modelled depth against the limit

0.925 m · request 1.0 m

PDFCabinet submittal, proposed productpage 3 of 12

Data sheet · depth 1.0 m

Overall dimensions (W × D × H):

0.60 × 1.00 × 2.00 m

96 units · one long-lead order

3 of 12

The requested 1.0 m is 0.08 m over the limit, on all 96 cabinets, and the modelled cabinet is already 5 mm over. A design change, not an approval.

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