Drawings and dimensions
Plans, surveys, sections, elevations, ceiling heights, openings, structure, stairs, and fixed service locations.
Project information checklist
Send the information that lets remote design begin with fewer assumptions.
A complete brief is not required on day one. The first review identifies what exists, what is reliable, and what still needs to be measured or confirmed.
Remote-firstClear online reviews, records, and deliverables.
Local coordinationDefined handover to licensed local teams.
Private by defaultClient locations and identifying details stay unpublished.
Direct answer
Plans, verified dimensions, photographs, video, project facts, and local-team contacts form the minimum useful starting point.
Clients should provide available plans, measured dimensions, ceiling heights, window and door sizes, structural information, site orientation, photographs, a slow walkthrough video, utility locations, inspiration, household requirements, budget range, programme, and local-team details.
Key controls
Organise the starting information into four practical groups.
Visual record
Wide and detailed photographs, exterior context, views, daylight conditions, and a slow continuous walkthrough video.
People and routines
Household members, accessibility needs, storage, cooking, entertaining, work, hobbies, privacy, and future change.
Project controls
Current stage, budget range, target dates, decision-makers, local architect, engineers, builder, and procurement plan.
Scope and responsibility
Unknown information should be recorded, not guessed.
Every missing measurement or condition becomes an action for the client or local team before the dependent design decision is approved.
Upload
Collect current drawings, images, videos, references, and project facts in one shared location.
Review
Volume Plan identifies gaps, conflicts, and information that needs professional verification.
Verify
The client appoints a suitable local party to confirm critical dimensions and conditions.
Freeze
Approved base information receives a date and version before detailed design develops.
Questions
Clear before the project begins.
For projects led by Volume Plan: A preliminary review may begin, but reliable dimensions are required before dependent design work is finalised.
For projects led by Volume Plan: Use a slow continuous walkthrough in daylight, showing every wall, ceiling, opening, view, and transition between spaces.
For projects led by Volume Plan: A realistic range is enough to guide scope, material level, FF&E, and sourcing strategy.
For projects led by Volume Plan: Provide survey information, orientation, access, surroundings, planning information, and the local architect’s current work.
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