Site inspection
Site inspection is a structured, in-person walkthrough of a venue before an event is contracted or built, used to verify that the space matches the floor plan, check access routes, utilities, rigging points, and safety provisions, and surface constraints that never appear in the venue's sales pack or CAD drawings.
The floor plan you sell is only as real as the building it sits in, and the site inspection is where the two get reconciled. Organizers walk the halls with a checklist: ceiling heights and rigging points, floor loading, pillar positions, dock access, power distribution, Wi-Fi dead zones, storage, and the routes crowds and freight will actually take. Exhibitors doing large custom builds should inspect too, because a pillar or a low beam discovered at load-in becomes an expensive overnight redesign. Commercially, the inspection protects revenue: every constraint found early is a booth you don't have to refund or relocate later, and venue concessions are far easier to negotiate before the contract is signed than after. The common mistake is treating it as a hospitality tour — following the venue's salesperson past the nice bits instead of working your own checklist with your own measurements. Bring the operations lead, not just the sales team. One honest nuance: venue CAD files are frequently out of date, and venues won't volunteer that. Renovations, new ductwork, and moved service points accumulate between surveys, so measure anything your plan depends on rather than trusting the drawing.
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Site inspection is a structured, in-person walkthrough of a venue before an event is contracted or built, used to verify that the space matches the floor plan, check access routes, utilities, rigging points, and safety provisions, and surface constraints that never appear in the venue's sales pack or CAD drawings.
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