Most contractors are good at building. The part that trips them up is proving what they built. Closeout documentation is the collection of records, approvals, manuals, warranties, and drawings that

If a submittal gets sent without a transmittal, did it get sent? Technically yes. But if a dispute comes up later, proving it is another story. A construction transmittal is

A Revise and Resubmit action adds at least two to four weeks to a submittal cycle. On a project with a tight procurement schedule, that delay can push material delivery

A deferred submittal is a portion of the design or construction documentation that is not included with the original permit application and is instead submitted to the building authority for

A construction document control workflow is the system a project team uses to manage every document that a project generates, from the first drawing set issued for permit to the

An RFI and a submittal are both formal construction documents, but they do entirely different things. An RFI — request for information — is how the contractor asks the design

Shop drawings and submittals are related but not the same thing. A submittal is the broader category. A shop drawing is one specific type of submittal. The confusion between the

A submittal log is the document that tracks every submittal on a construction project — from the moment it is identified to the moment it receives final approval. It records

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