Shop Drawing Submittal and Review Issues

Shop Drawings Services and their review process play a crucial role in any construction process.

While there is no substitute for professional judgment, liability risks can also arise during submittal review due to failure to maintain a highly organized, efficient, and timely review process.

Failure to review submittals within a certain time period or other organizational missteps can result in problems for all parties.

 Organizational Issues That Can Surface Are:

• Lack of a clear schedule for submittals, or too many submittals arriving at the architect’s or engineer’s desk at the same time.
• Lack of a clear logging and tracking process that documents, dates received, dates returned, actions taken, and does so with consistency for thousands of documents and reviews.
• Submittable not being delivered promptly to the final reviewer, whether it is another individual in the same office or an outside consultant.
• Submittals not being reviewed and returned in a timely manner.
• Notes and revisions not being copied consistently to all copies of a submittal.
• Not all submittals required by the specifications being delivered for review.
• Design team reviewing submittals that are not required by the specifications.
• Submittals bypassing key steps in the review process; for example, going directly from a subcontractor to the architect, bypassing the general contractor, or going from a subcontractor to an engineering consultant, bypassing both the general contractor and architect.

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Nikunj Patel is a design engineer working at Outsource Structural Drafting for the past 4 years. He loves designing Expert industrial equipments and can always be found in the lab discussing, brainstorming and tweaking designs. He has also worked on architectural projects taking interest in every aspect of design and analysis.