Draw Inspections in 5 Unique Places, March 2025

The market

Asheville is the seat of Buncombe County, about 2,100 feet up in the Blue Ridge Mountains where the Swannanoa River meets the French Broad. In September 2024, Hurricane Helene drove both rivers to record crests, above the historic flood of 1916, and the floodwater tore through the River Arts District and Biltmore Village.

How RAZE ran it

Mountain sites around Asheville can sit up steep roads and a long way from a signal. The RAZE Mobile App is built for that: capture carries on offline, the app keeps track of which sets of data are still waiting to sync, and the complete record uploads as soon as the phone reconnects. For a rebuild, that record shows the work line by line, geo-stamped and time-stamped.

The market

DeFuniak Springs is the seat of Walton County, inland in the Florida Panhandle on Interstate 10 and U.S. 90. The town grew up around Lake DeFuniak, a spring-fed lake of about 40 acres that is almost perfectly round, and the Chautauqua Hall of Brotherhood, an auditorium for 4,000, was built on its shore. Walton County has ranked among the fastest-growing counties in the country.

How RAZE ran it

Orders here have come in as lot numbers, before a street address existed. When an order carries only a lot, the location travels with the evidence: each photo taken in the RAZE Mobile App holds GPS latitude and longitude plus date and time stamps, tied to its draw sheet line item, so the reviewer sees the lot and the stage of work in one place.

The market

Oak Ridge was established in 1942 as a production site for the Manhattan Project, and the Secret City grew from about 1,000 people to more than 75,000 by the end of the war, with some 2,500 prefabricated cemesto homes built for its workers. Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex are still here, about 25 miles west of Knoxville. Most of the city lies in Anderson County, between parallel ridges and the Clinch River.

How RAZE ran it

A draw in Oak Ridge can be a new home on a ridge lot or work on a house with decades behind it, and either way the budget breaks into line items. RAZE links each photo to its draw sheet line item, geo-stamped and time-stamped, so a reviewer sees the foundation, the framing or the finish work against the line it pays for, in the same report format as any other market.

The market

Beaufort is South Carolina's second-oldest town, first planned in 1711, and its historic district has been a National Historic Landmark since 1973. The Richard V. Woods Memorial Bridge, a swing bridge opened in 1959 and now on the National Register of Historic Places, links downtown with Lady's Island and the outer Sea Islands.

How RAZE ran it

A site on Lady's Island sits across a swing bridge from downtown, and one in the historic district sits inside a National Historic Landmark. The record has to make the location plain either way: every photo the inspector captures in the RAZE Mobile App is geo-stamped and time-stamped, linked to its draw sheet line item, so a reviewer sees which side of the bridge the work is on and when it was documented.

The market

Muscle Shoals is the largest city in Colbert County, with 16,275 people at the 2020 census, and one of the four cities of the Shoals on the Tennessee River in the northwest corner of Alabama. FAME Studios has recorded here since 1961, and Wilson Dam, completed in 1924 and the first dam to come under TVA's administration, spans the river between Muscle Shoals and Florence.

How RAZE ran it

The Shoals is a long drive from Birmingham or Nashville, and a lender based in either may have no inspector this far along the Tennessee River. The Marketplace answers that: RAZE sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network, and the photos, time stamps and report come back through the same workflow as an order down the street.