About
What the practice is, and how it got here
House Cleo is an independent technical practice for temporary event infrastructure — setting the standard a build is measured against, verifying what was achieved, and holding the record. Based in Miami, FL; working wherever the programme is.
(01) — POSITION
The independent technical practice that sets the standard, verifies the result, and holds the record.
House Cleo works for the parties who carry the consequence of temporary infrastructure: venue owners, host committees and rights holders.
The practice is deliberately narrow. It sells judgement about what should be measured, and evidence about what was.
(02) — HOW IT GOT HERE
Where the discipline came from
The work began in measured survey for architecture and construction: recording what already existed so that design, fabrication and installation could start from a measurement instead of an assumption.
It moved into temporary event infrastructure, where the same discipline is scarcest. Structures that stand for a weekend and carry thousands of people often run on tape measures and trust.
(03) — HOW WE WORK
Four working principles
Independent of the build
House Cleo is paid by the party carrying the risk, and takes no position in the supply chain it reviews. Nothing depends on a finding coming out one way.
Measured evidence, not adjectives
Every figure is labelled by kind. ±6 mm at 10 m is an instrument specification; 0.006 ft is a tolerance worked to and reported against.
One coordinate system, one record
A programme is specified against a single datum, and every measurement taken on it — by whoever takes it — is reported into a single record.
The record outlives the build
Temporary infrastructure comes down. What it was, where it stood and who checked it should not — so the record is dated and retained.
(04) — SCOPE
Where the boundary is
Where a programme needs a certification, it is identified at scoping and carried out with the licensed party who can give it.
House Cleo provides independent technical review, specification and documentation. Work requiring certification is carried out with a licensed surveyor or engineer of record.
Ask for the method.
The method document sets out what is specified, what is verified, and what the record contains.