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Method

Five steps. The third one is where software earns its place.

Civiltech AI is named for the tools, not instead of the engineer. This is the sequence a commission follows unless the written scope says otherwise.

  1. 01

    Brief

    What decision the work has to support, and by when. A house approval is not a subdivision, and the scope should not pretend otherwise.

  2. 02

    Ground

    Survey, services, flood, planning controls, geotechnical advice. Missing information is listed before design starts, not discovered at issue.

  3. 03

    Options

    Where the site allows more than one lawful arrangement, we test them. Computation is useful here: more options, compared on the same criteria.

  4. 04

    Issue

    Drawings, a calculation summary and a report pitched at the reader who has to use them — assessor, builder, or another consultant.

  5. 05

    Close

    Review comments answered against the document that raised them. Revisions are numbered. Superseded sheets are marked as superseded.

On computation

What the software is allowed to do.

  • Compare options on the same criteria.Grades, pipe sizes, detention volumes, pavement depths — varied quickly, then judged.
  • Check a set against a written rule.Missing levels, clashing revisions, a note that contradicts the calculation. A list for a person to accept or reject.
  • Draft quantities for review.A first measure, not a tender schedule, until an engineer has checked the items and the units.
  • Never the author.No model, script or assistant issues advice in the company’s name. Drawings and reports carry a person.
A physical terrain model of a creek valley in pale timber and plaster, with a copper pin marking a culvert.

Standards are cited, not gestured at.

Work is set against the instruments that govern it: the relevant Australian Standards, Austroads guidance where roads are in scope, council engineering controls, authority codes for water and sewer, and the NSW flood and planning framework that applies to the site. The proposal names which of those the fee actually covers.

If a specialist input is missing — survey, geotechnical, ecological, traffic — it is identified as missing. We do not paper over it with a generic note.

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