Shop drawings, submittals and RFIs · Lesson 2 of 4

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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Division 01 says how, Division 07 says what

Section 01 33 00 sets how submittals are handled; a Division 07 section such as UFGS 07 60 00, Flashing and Sheet Metal, lists which ones the flashing work needs.

UFGS 07 60 00 lists shop drawings for exposed sheet metal coverings, gutters, downspouts, expansion joints, gravel stops and fascia, base flashing, counterflashing, reglets, scuppers, copings and drip edges.

Sources

UFGS 01 33 00 Submittal Procedures (August 2026, 36 pages), Part 1 General - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NAVFAC and AFCEC (Unified Facilities Guide Specifications), via the Whole Building Design Guide
UFGS 07 60 00 Flashing and Sheet Metal (August 2023, Change 1 05/25, 38 pages) - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NAVFAC and AFCEC (Unified Facilities Guide Specifications), via the Whole Building Design Guide

Glossary

Division 07: The thermal and moisture protection division of the project manual, where flashing and sheet metal sections such as UFGS 07 60 00 list the submittals the flashing work needs.
Section 01 33 00: The submittal procedures section of Division 01 General Requirements, which sets how submittals are numbered, checked, stamped, sent and reviewed on a project.
Thermal movement: The growth and shrinkage of a metal run as temperature changes, calculated as expansion coefficient times length times temperature swing; a flashing drawing shows how a run is allowed to move.
Delegated design: Design work the contract assigns to the contractor, submitted with a statement signed and sealed by the responsible design professional.
Deferred submittal: A building-code term: a part of the permit documents the building official allows to be submitted after the permit, reviewed first by the design professional in responsible charge.
ES-1: ANSI/SPRI/FM 4435/ES-1, a test standard for roof edge systems under simulated wind load, covering copings and edge systems on low slope roofs.