
Most inspection tooling records what was found and when, but records where only as a room, a zone, an asset tag or a typed sentence. That files the report. It won't get anyone back to the exact spot six months later.
So somebody walks the site again to find it, and that cost repeats every cycle.





Related: spatial incident reporting covers unplanned events and near-misses, and connected worker covers the wider case of getting system-of-record data to people in the field.
Also related: field inspection and verification pairs the check with the model, so design against as-built becomes a measurement rather than an argument, and pharmaceutical manufacturing applies the same evidence trail to line clearance.
One more: BIM overlay and progress verification in construction, which compares as-built against design without re-surveying and gives every site photo the exact position it was taken from.