Meanings
- not comparableRelating to the form in which something was originally built.
It was restored to near as-built condition by EWS ahead of the RAIL/EWS Toton Open Day in August 1998, and was withdrawn from traffic in December 1999, passing to the National Collection.
2020 December 2, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: Anniversary run for pioneer '37' thwarted by pandemic”, in Rail, page 31
plural as-builts · alternative as built
- businessA drawing showing how a project was actually built as opposed to how it was intended to be built.
Maintaining as-builts on the Big Dig was a major undertaking, as it required keeping thousands of utility drawings up to date with the latest changes.
2013, Virginia A. Greiman, Megaproject Management, →ISBN
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