Field notes · 11 June 2026
Naming zones before the first photograph
Why a shared floor-naming sheet saves more meeting time than any chart style in a construction progress pack.
On Hong Kong high-rises, “Level 12” can mean three different things depending on whether the podium, refuge floor, or marketing numbering is in play. Before we photograph anything for a construction progress dashboard, we ask the site agent for the naming sheet the trades already use.
When that sheet is missing, captions drift. A lender reading the pack overnight will ask which twelve you meant, and the site team loses the next morning answering. We have watched projects waste more time on naming disputes than on the actual incomplete waterproofing the photos were meant to show.
Our practice is simple: lock names on the kick-off call, print them on the cover of the site reporting pack, and refuse to invent parallel labels. If a floor is sealed, we keep its name and mark “no access” rather than skipping the row. Readers trust the gaps when the vocabulary stays stable.