Bring the estate, the plant list or the problem that will not settle. The practice reads every enquiry the way a field book is read, from the fixed station outward, and will tell you plainly whether the estate can be integrated and what the first survey would cover.
The practice works with commercial buildings, mixed use towers, logistics floors and industrial grounds where more than one subsystem must be made to agree. A single gate, a chiller plant or a grounds network on its own is enough to begin, because every estate is read from the same fixed station regardless of its size.
No. The first instinct of the practice is to bring old equipment into the estate system with documented protocol bridging rather than to discard plant that still has good years ahead of it. Replacement is recommended only where a device cannot be read, cannot be made safe, or costs more to keep alive than to retire.
Every reading is written into the estate field book, alongside the naming scheme, the topology and the calibration record. From there the estate can be commissioned, handed to operators, and kept current under managed estate stewardship, so that the next engineer inherits facts rather than folklore.