A plot on the map becomes a feasibility case and a PDF you can hand over.
BUILDPLAN takes one project through seven steps in a single web app: set up the site, generate massing, check it against Japanese building code, run the financial case and export the proposal.
BUILDPLAN is built for the Japanese market: Japanese building code and yen today, with the interface in English, Japanese, Korean and Mongolian.
The seven steps below are the product's own tabs. How long a project takes depends on the site.
Address, boundary and area come out of a map tool and get retyped somewhere else.
A first volume study means asking someone else to draw it, then waiting for the answer.
Coverage ratio, floor area ratio and height limits are checked manually against the drawing.
The numbers live in a spreadsheet and the material for the meeting is built from scratch.
Create the project and open it from your signed-in account, where it stays between sessions.
Search an address, draw the land boundary on the map, and watch area and perimeter update as you draw.
Set use, structure and floor count; setbacks are applied and the volume is built, with a violations list for coverage ratio, floor area ratio and height.
The assistant reads the project's own data and drafts the proposal text for it.
Generate one exterior image from the current 3D view of the massing.
Construction cost, income and expenses, NOI, cap rate, payback period and cash-on-cash return, with charts.
A PDF proposal with the generated image, ready to hand over in the same sitting.
No time claims here. What BUILDPLAN removes is the switching between tools and the wait for a first massing.
One place
Map, spreadsheet and deck
Site geometry, the code check and the financial case sit in one project instead of three files
No queue
First massing
You generate the volume yourself from use, structure and floor count, instead of waiting for someone to draw it
Same sitting
Something to hand over
The PDF comes out of the project you just built, so nothing is rebuilt for the review
Address, boundary and live measurements
Use, structure and floor count become a volume
A violations list, not a guess
From geometry to a return in the same project
An assistant that knows the project, and a PDF at the end
Test a site before committing to it: what fits, what the code allows and what it returns.
â example use case, not a customer quote
Produce a first massing and a code check in-house, before a design team is engaged.
â example use case, not a customer quote
See what a plot could hold and what it might earn, before talking to anyone.
â example use case, not a customer quote
BUILDPLAN is early-stage and prices are not published yet â commercial terms are agreed per project.
Free
We walk the seven steps on a site you choose and answer your questions on the call
By arrangement
We set up one of your real sites in BUILDPLAN and work it through with your team, from boundary to PDF proposal
By arrangement
Work with us as an early partner and shape what BUILDPLAN builds next: markets, code sets and outputs
Not yet. BUILDPLAN works to Japanese building code and yen today: coverage ratio, floor area ratio and height, with a yen-based cost and rent model. Mongolian norms and tugrik are on the roadmap. The interface is already available in Mongolian.
It is good for deciding whether a site is worth pursuing and for the first conversation with a partner, a lender or an owner. It is not construction documentation, not a permit submission and not a compliance certificate â a qualified professional has to verify the figures before you commit.
Construction cost, income and operating expenses, NOI, cap rate, payback period and cash-on-cash return, shown with charts. The model is all-cash today: there is no loan, interest or debt service in it.
No. You work from an address and a boundary you draw on the map, and the massing comes from use, structure and floor count. BUILDPLAN does not ask you to import a CAD or BIM model.
Treat it as a reference. The slant planes are drawn in 3D at fixed angles so you can see the shape of the restriction against your massing; BUILDPLAN does not issue a pass or fail on them. The coverage ratio, floor area ratio and height checks do produce a violations list.
BUILDPLAN ships reference figures: a Tokyo ward rent table and yen-per-tsubo construction costs by structure type. They are a starting point for a first pass, not an appraisal of your site.
The interface runs in English, Japanese, Korean and Mongolian. Projects are saved to your signed-in account and are there when you come back.
Bring an address in Japan and we will walk the seven steps through to the PDF proposal.