PROJECT1.617

Places by 1.617

Places by 1.617

One live route to open.

Intelligence for hotels, restaurants and shops.

Places is software we're building for people opening, refitting or furnishing places.

It reads, tracks, understands and quantifies the risks, requirements and decisions that can move cost, time, procurement, trading or opening connected from the first idea to the day the doors open.

Places is in development.

Risk & requirements
Decisions & approvals
Money & time
Procurement & FF&E
Operations & trading

Pick a stage or a marker. The line shows how far the selected flag reaches.

What could stop the next step?

Legislation, technical guidance and approval requirements depend on what you're doing, where you're doing it and where the project is now.

Places is being built to keep those requirements connected to the project as it changes.

Places doesn't make the professional decision. It keeps the question, the source and the consequences connected.

Nothing changes alone.

Simulated project

A hotel refit. Ground-floor restaurant and kitchen, guest rooms above.

Opening up, the contractor finds a beam where the drainage run should go.

Guest rooms above01
306ROOM 307308GUEST CORRIDOR
Ground-floor kitchen02
RESTAURANTKITCHEN
Discovered beamDrainage route

The question, the source and the consequences

See it in action →
  1. 01

    The project

    A hotel refit. Ground-floor restaurant and kitchen, guest rooms above.

    OwnerThe hotel stays open. Rooms upstairs keep trading through the works.

  2. 02

    What changed

    Opening up, the contractor finds a beam where the drainage run should go.

    OwnerSomething on site doesn't match the drawings.

  3. 03

    Drawing issue

    The drainage route on the current drawing no longer works.

    OwnerThe plan you approved may need to change.

  4. 04

    Approval question

    Does a new route or a change to the beam need another approval?

    OwnerWe don't know yet. This is what needs checking.

  5. 05

    Who looks next

    Structural engineer and drainage engineer, with the architect.

    OwnerThe judgement stays with the people doing the work.

  6. 06

    What it could affect

    Cost, programme and trading — to be confirmed, not guessed.

    OwnerPossible extra works · A later kitchen handover · Restaurant reopening · Noise near occupied rooms

Showing the owner perspective for all six connected consequences.

Bring us a project.

Tell us what you're opening or changing, where it is, whether it is trading now and how far along you are.

Drawings are optional.