Loma Build
Building Clarity

Stand in the drawing
before you build it.

A flat drawing can describe a staircase. It cannot make six trades picture the same junction. We bring the difficult parts into one view, test them before they are built and keep the record aligned with what is actually on site.

Model-led coordination, physical mock-ups, setting out, site verification and digital handover for high-end residential projects in London.

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brook@lomabuild.co.uk 07544 770206 London
The same room, twiceLeft, the plan as issued. Drag it and the plan stands up.
The drawing2D · as issuedWhat gets built

What we do

Before, during and after construction

One clear line from drawing, to site, to handover.

Before — resolve it

Put the drawings, the site and the difficult detail in the same space.

We model the parts that need to be understood, not the whole job for presentation. Where a screen is not enough, we make the profile, jig or full-size mock-up. The purpose is a sound decision before material is ordered.

3D coordinationBuildabilityPhysical mock-ups
During — build it

Carry the agreed answer onto site and check it back.

Geometry tied to gridlines and anchor points. Templates cut from the same information used to agree the detail. Questions, decisions and hold-point photographs kept with the work, before finishes cover the evidence.

Setting outTemplates and jigsSite verification
After — keep it clear

Hand over a record that works for the people looking after the home.

What was installed, where it is, how to reach it and what it needs next. We organise that information around the property rather than the folder it arrived in, so the handover remains useful after the project team has left.

Digital handoverAsset informationAftercare
A tablet showing the modelled detail held up against the built curved joinery, with a tape measure across the opening

These are not separate ideas. It is one way of working: keep the information clear as it moves from design to site, and from site into the life of the home. We work alongside main contractors, consultants and specialist trades on high-end residential projects in London.

The problem

Why we exist

The problem is not that people cannot read drawings. It is that they do not all read the same building from them.

Drawings are essential, and often very detailed. But each one has a job to do. The architect shows the intent, the engineer shows the structure and each specialist shows its own package. The difficult part is usually where those drawings meet.

That is where six capable people can understand the same information six different ways. The difference is often found by the person standing on site with the material in their hands. By then the question has become time, cost and rework.

Most construction problems are not caused by people not caring. They happen in the gaps between packages, trades and records. That gap is where Loma Build works.

A finished room where a cornice runs into a structural beam, with an inset coordination model showing the two overlapping in red

Stand in the drawing

Walk the hall · six places the packages meet

A drawing is one line where the building is six trades.

This hall is not a client’s house. It brings recurring coordination conditions into one place: a curved post-tensioned stair inside a drum, a lantern light over the well, a gallery on a downstand steel, a fluted feature wall, a cased opening with curved reveals, and a coffered ceiling that has to get past a beam.

Walk it at eye height. At each numbered spot the card tells you what the plan says and what you are actually standing in front of. Then press See the drawing and watch the room fall back to the lines it came from.

The hall: a curved stair rising inside a drum to a gallery, under a lantern light Modelled from a few dimensions · the plan is drawn from the same numbers

Building clarity

Use the thing that makes the answer clear

The technology is useful. The answer is what matters.

Sometimes the answer is a model. Sometimes it is a piece of timber offered up on site, a full-size mock-up, a photograph before the ceiling closes, or one clear question sent to the right person. We use whichever makes the work easier to understand and safer to build.

Where the drawings meet

Architectural intent, structure, services and specialist packages brought into one view around the junction that nobody owns on their own.

Physical proof

A rod, profile, CNC template or full-size mock-up. If the question is physical, the clearest answer often needs to be physical too.

Site evidence

Agreed grids, setting-out references, hold points and photographs kept with the decision they prove. Clear enough for the next person to follow.

Technology behind the work

3D, AR, CNC and AI-assisted records each earn their place by shortening the route to a reliable answer. Technology supports the craft; it does not replace it.

Handover and aftercare

The property record assembled while the job runs, then used to make maintenance and future work clearer. The end of a project tells us what the beginning should have known.

Practical management

Working with the contractor and specialists to turn the agreed answer into sequenced work on a real programme. Clarity is only useful when somebody carries it through.

A tablet held up in a stripped kitchen, showing the finished joinery in augmented reality over the full-size mock-up built on the floor

Selected experience

Private residential work · identities withheld

What was unclear, what we made visible, and what changed.

Curved stair, feature wall and lantern light

Three packages arriving in one corner.

  1. The conditionA feature wall, lantern light and curved post-tensioned staircase arrived in the same corner through separate design packages. Each drawing made sense on its own.
  2. What we didPlaced the three packages in one model on the same grid and took the profiles directly from the issued information. The conflicting geometry became visible.
  3. On siteCoordinated setting-out issued against gridlines and anchor points, with the revised geometry cut as templates for the stair joinery.
  4. The resultThe identified clashes were resolved in the model and the agreed geometry was issued for setting out and manufacture.
Private penthouse handover

The information existed. Finding and using it was the problem.

  1. The conditionManuals, asset information, access knowledge and emergency procedures sat across folders, documents and the heads of people who had worked on the project.
  2. What we didOrganised the information around the rooms and assets in the property, with short access videos, key contacts and clear routes to the source documents.
  3. On siteRecorded how concealed equipment is reached, what keys and tools are needed, and where the emergency shut-offs sit before that knowledge left with the project team.
  4. The resultA working digital handover hub designed for the property team to use, rather than another folder of information to search through.
Kitchen, mocked up full size

A decision made standing in the room.

  1. The conditionA kitchen with tight clearances that the client could not read off an elevation, and nobody wanted to order first and find out.
  2. What we didModelled the joinery, then mocked its profile up full size in Jablite polystyrene on the floor of the actual room.
  3. On siteAnchored the real joinery over the polystyrene in AR through an iPad, so it could be walked around at full size in its own space.
  4. The resultThe client could judge the clearances at full size, in the actual room, before the joinery was released.
A tablet in a leather folio being handed over in a finished room, beside three screens of the handover record: the home by room, emergency isolation, and the maintenance plan

The handover screens above are from our own anonymised demo; the address and every value in them is a placeholder. Selected experience includes work personally delivered by Brook Lomas before and since forming Loma Build Ltd. Project roles and authorship are described accurately; client names, addresses and identifying finishes remain private.

How we work

Between design intent and built reality

Start with the thing that is unclear. Finish with evidence.

We do not model everything or put a system in for the sake of it. We use the simplest method that gets the right people looking at the same thing, reaches a sound decision and leaves a record somebody else can follow.

  • 1Find the gapNot every part of the job is difficult. Find the junction, decision or missing information that is holding the work up or likely to do so later.
  • 2Put it in one viewBring the relevant drawings, survey, specialist input and site condition together. The disagreement often becomes obvious once it is visible.
  • 3Use the clearest testA model, profile, rod, full-size mock-up, CNC template or one written question. The simplest thing that gets a sound decision wins.
  • 4Carry the decision onto siteTie it to the grid, set it out from the agreed information and photograph the hold points before they disappear.
  • 5Leave the next person a useful recordKeep the decision, evidence and asset information together. What is learned at handover and in aftercare feeds the next project at the beginning.
A close view of a steel connection, three beams and a column meeting at one point, with the structural drawing linework behind it

Who does it

Loma Build

Construction is one language. Technology is another. I work in both.

I came through carpentry and joinery, then moved into construction management on high-end residential projects. I know what it is to stand on site with the material in your hands while six drawings explain six different parts of the same detail.

I taught myself SketchUp because I needed a better way to understand what we were being asked to build and explain it to other people. From there came CNC templates, physical mock-ups, VR, AR and the systems that keep the decision connected to the work.

AI now helps with the administration and records around that process. It does not replace the judgement of the people designing and building the job. The thread through all of it is clarity: make the difficult part visible, get the right people looking at the same thing, build it, then leave a record that is useful to whoever comes next.

Brook LomasDirector, Loma Build Ltd

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One unclear point is enough

Bring us the point where the job stops being clear.

It may be one difficult junction, a setting-out problem, a handover spread across disconnected folders or a recurring property issue nobody quite owns. Send what you have. We will work out where the gap sits and the simplest useful next step.

If Loma Build is not the right fit, I will say so.

brook@lomabuild.co.uk
07544 770206
London

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