I have written before about how Thursdays have become my construction site visit day. And that is still very much the case. It's something I look forward to — seeing our progress, testing my discomfort with heights, and learning what not to do in the future.

One of my rules for site visits is that you can never take too many photos. Because invariably, at some point in the future, something will come up and you'll wish you had a progress photo to look back to.

I find that having text somewhere in the image is the easiest way to search for stuff later. So if it doesn't already exist, I think someone should make a flip card-like contraption with common construction words on it that you can use when taking site photos. You know, with fun words like schluter.

Taking this logic even further, the best practice is a full 3D scan at each inspection stage. A digital twin is naturally going to be better than photos for finding where a particular pipe is going or what the waterproofing detail looks like in the location where you're now experiencing a leak.

We've been using Matterport, but I'm writing today to see if any of you have any other construction software that you would highly recommend. It could be for this exact purpose or for any other construction-related purpose. If you do, please leave a comment below.