What is the digital object passport

The object passport is a record of what was done on the site: which work, with which materials, with photographs.

It is not written separately. The passport grows out of work that is happening anyway: tasks get completed, workers write final reports, those reports go into the stage passport, and published stage passports build up into the object passport.

What it is made of

A stage passport covers one front of work. The final reports of completed tasks are added to it automatically. The manager edits it and publishes it to the client.

The object passport is formed from the published stage passports. So the client does not get one document at the very end, but a picture that grows as the work proceeds.

Either can be exported as a PDF.

What it does for the contractor

Disputes. Six months after handover somebody claims the work was never done, or was done wrong. A passport with dates and photographs ends that conversation in a minute.

Warranty obligations. In France the décennale runs for ten years. For all that time you are answerable for work nobody will remember in five. A document with photographs of hidden work is the only way to show it was done properly.

Repeat business. A client who holds a passport for their flat remembers who produced it. Three years later, when something needs doing, they open the document and see your name.

What it does for the client

They get something people almost never get from a refurbishment: a clear record of their own home. Where the pipes and cables run, what paint is on the walls, what is inside the partition.

That matters at the next refurbishment, when something breaks, and when the property is sold.

Next

How a stage passport is assembled

Editing the passport

Publishing the passport to the client