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Case study 02 · Mall expansion programme

How a landlord team brought design approvals for a new phase into one reviewable workflow.

Industry

Shopping centre development

Solution

RDD / Delivery Teams

01

Client introduction

A landlord delivery team preparing a major expansion phase with a fixed opening window and a large number of new tenants.

02

Business challenge

Tenant submissions arrived in bursts, comments came back from several disciplines, and revision history was scattered across email threads.

03

Existing workflow

Email-based submissions

Consolidated comment sheets

Drawing versions in shared folders

Weekly status meetings

04

Key pain points

01

Version confusion between revisions

02

Comments repeated across cycles

03

No live view of the review queue

04

Opening window at risk without early warning

05

VRDnet implementation

Discover

Reviewed the design criteria and existing review cycle.

Configure

Set up discipline-based review routes and comment categories.

Onboard

Invited tenant designers to submit through VRDnet.

Operate

Ran weekly queue reviews directly from the platform.

06

Workflow transformation

Before

Fragmented visibility

✕ Email-based submissions

✕ Consolidated comment sheets

✕ Drawing versions in shared folders

✕ Weekly status meetings

After

Connected retail delivery

✓ One unit record across the portfolio

✓ Structured submissions and reviews

✓ Owned actions with reminders

✓ Reporting from live data

07

Key lessons

01

Structure comments by discipline from day one

02

Make waiting time as visible as review time

03

Link every revision to the comments it answers

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