From UPCS points to NSPIRE severity: retraining your eye

Veterans of the REAC/UPCS era carry a scoring instinct that NSPIRE quietly punishes: under the old system, lots of small items could outweigh one serious one; under NSPIRE, severity and location drive the math, and a single life-threatening item in a unit outweighs a page of minor building findings. Retraining the eye means re-sorting the walk: life-threatening first, unit interiors before site cosmetics, affirmative requirements checked as their own list. The knowledge from the old system is not wasted — the prioritization is what changed. Which UPCS instinct was hardest for your team to unlearn? — Admin