Building inspection / Construction

Peters Bouwadvies

Tablet-first inspection software that captures findings on-site and turns them into .docx advisory reports and invoices.

Netherlands · Custom web & tablet app Visit website

Peters Bouwadvies, building-inspection software built by TopDevs

About Peters Bouwadvies

Peters Bouwadvies (officially Peters Bouwkundig Adviesbureau) is an independent building-inspection and structural-advice firm in Milsbeek, in the north of the province of Limburg (municipality of Gennep). It inspects homes, older farmhouses (woonboerderijen) and listed monuments, carrying out purchase and sale inspections, zero-measurements (nulmetingen) and surveys for both private and corporate clients. The firm is listed in the expert register of the Dutch judiciary (deskundigenregister van de Rechtspraak) and is engaged by lawyers and courts as an independent building expert.

The challenge

Peters Bouwadvies is a one-man building inspection practice doing multiple inspections a week for corporate and private clients. Each inspection took hours, with findings captured as handwritten or mental notes. The real work started afterwards: back home, he re-entered everything into 25-year-old software to produce extensive advisory reports. Double work, slow, and a hard ceiling on how many clients he could take on. He wanted software he could actually use on a tablet during the inspection itself, then generate the report from what he had already recorded.

The analysis

The bottleneck is not the inspection, it is the second pass. Re-typing notes into old software at home doubled the work and capped how many inspections he could realistically run per week.

On-site speed is everything. Typing full sentences on a tablet during an inspection does not work, so the workflow had to run on taps. A library of standardised texts and options he can move through fast, with the keyboard reserved for the rare exception rather than the rule.

Findings only make sense in context. A photo and a comment need to be attached to the specific room they belong to, so the report writes itself in the right structure later. Tag as you go, and the structure is already there when the .docx gets generated.

The office side is a separate job. Reviewing a recent inspection, adding comments, checking open flags and then producing both the report and the invoice all had to live in the same tool, not a second app he switches to.

One codebase, two contexts. The same tablet-optimised React app runs on-site and at the office, so a finding recorded in a hallway is the same record he reviews at his desk. No export step, no copy between systems.

The standardised-text library is the workflow. Because it is customisable, the wording he taps in matches the way he actually writes a report, which is what makes tapping faster than typing instead of just shorter.

What we built

On-site capture app

A tablet-optimised React app built for the inspection itself. Instead of jotting notes to type up later, the inspector records everything on the spot by tapping through a library of standardised texts, snapping photos and assigning each finding to the room it belongs to.

Tablet-optimised React app, usable on-site and at the office from one codebase.
A customisable library of standardised texts and options, so findings get recorded by tapping with minimal keyboard use.
Photo capture of findings during the inspection, attached to the right finding.
Per-room tagging, so photos and comments stay tied to the specific room and the report structures itself later.

Office review & flags

The desk side of the same tool. Back at the office the inspector pulls up a recent inspection, walks back through the details, adds comments and clears any open flags before the report goes out.

Find a recent inspection and open it to review the captured details.
Add comments and refine findings after the visit.
Check and resolve open flags so nothing is missed before the report is generated.

Report & invoice generation

The output stage that removes the second pass entirely. From a reviewed inspection, the advisory report and the matching invoice are generated in one step, drawn straight from what was recorded on-site.

One-click generation of advisory reports in .docx format from the recorded findings.
Invoice generation tied to the same inspection record.
No re-typing into old software at home, the report comes from the on-site capture.