Shop drawings, submittals and RFIs
The paper trail between the contract documents and the shop floor: the submittal types, what a flashing shop drawing must carry, a documented method from register to approved drawing and from question to answered RFI, and why submittals come back.
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Lesson 1 · 15 min · 11 slides · 14 questions
Shop drawings, submittals and RFIs: principles and terminology
The paper trail between the contract documents and the shop floor: the five submittal types, action versus informational, what an RFI asks and does not ask, what AFS provides, and why a review stamp is not a design check.
You will be able to: Tell a shop drawing from product data, a sample, a certificate and design data, tell action from informational submittals, say what an RFI is and what it is not, and name each party's job and the limits of a review stamp.
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Shop drawings, submittals and RFIs: what a flashing submittal must carry
What a flashing submittal carries: the Division 01 and Division 07 pair, the items that need shop drawings, how thickness, thermal movement, edge-system testing, finishes and delegated design show up on the drawing, and the AFS limits that bound it.
You will be able to: List what a sheet-metal flashing shop drawing and its product data must show, and name where the values come from: the specification sections, published expansion coefficients, the material register and the limits of the shop.
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Shop drawings, submittals and RFIs: a documented method
The method from the submittal register to an approved drawing and from a question to an answered RFI, with worked examples for a drip edge data block, review-time arithmetic and thermal movement.
You will be able to: Apply the method of register, collect, field-measure, draw, check, flag deviations, transmit, track and resubmit to a drip edge or coping submittal, and write a complete RFI with the assumptions, units and inspection points recorded.
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Shop drawings, submittals and RFIs: why they come back
The ways a submittal or RFI is returned, why a stamp does not rescue an unflagged variation, how a limit is caught on the drawing, how revisions are compared, an inspection checklist, a teaching case and the records to keep.
You will be able to: Diagnose why a submittal or an RFI comes back, choose the correction, catch a limit on the drawing before the shop does, and keep the evidence.
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Practical task
Build the job packet for a drip edge or coping submittal on a project of your own choosing, or a made-up one: a register line, the shop-drawing data block read from a FlashDraft profile, one flagged deviation, a transmittal, one RFI and a self-check against the ten-box checklist. Use the numbers from your own Section 01 33 00, or say you have none.
Hand in
- A register line: the specification section, the submittal type, the approving authority and the dates you assume, each with where it came from
- The drawing data block: legs, bend angles, girth, material, gauge and the thickness it means, piece length (standard 10 ft, maximum 126 in), with the AFS limits check result
- One deviation, flagged: what the contract documents say, what you propose, and why
- A transmittal: project, date, from, to, specification section, drawing reference and the revision number or suffix
- One RFI with every item of the twelve-item list filled, a field dimension marked as such and a suggested solution
- A completed self-check of the ten checks, with any empty box explained
Rubric
| Criterion | Meets the standard when |
|---|---|
| Data block | Every leg, angle, girth and thickness is read from one profile and one register, with units; nothing is retyped from memory and no blank is filled with a guess. |
| Limits | Girth is checked against 48 in, the piece against 126 in, and a hemmed profile in 18 ga or thicker steel is caught as blocked. |
| Deviation and revision | The deviation is stated against the contract document it differs from, and the revision carries a number or suffix in the scheme the specification uses. |
| RFI | The question could not be answered from the documents, names the specification section and detail, carries a field dimension and a suggested solution, and is not a submittal, substitution or price question. |
| Source of numbers | Every review time, copy count or sheet size is attributed to the specification it came from, not presented as a trade rule, and no price appears. |