<p>A clash caught in the model costs about $50; the same clash found in the field costs $5,000 to $50,000. That gap is why coordination teams stop arguing about software cost.</p> <p>Here is how to think about it:</p> <ul><li>Count the labor behind a single unresolved clash: crews standing by, equipment rented, schedule slipping.</li><li>Multiply by the time it sits. The longer it waits, the further it moves toward the top of that range.</li><li>Add the meeting time. Two hours a week spent finding out who moved a duct is time nobody recovers.</li><li>Compare that to a licence. Basics is $260 per licence per year and Max is $590. One field fix is not close.</li></ul> <p>BidLight keeps one live record of the project inside Revit and Navisworks. Every publish is a versioned snapshot, any two revisions compare element by element, and every clash or issue is pinned to the elements it concerns, so problems surface before they reach the field. Cost rides on the same model: you get labor, equipment, material and time costs in minutes, and the number moves when the design changes.</p> <p>The field fix is never the cheap option.</p>