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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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The nine-step method

Nine steps: register, collect, field-measure, draw, check, flag deviations, transmit, track, resubmit.

Each step leaves a record: the register line, the data and samples, the field note, the drawing revision, the contractor stamp, the encircled deviation, the transmittal, the log entry and the revision suffix.

The method is a way of working, not a standard; your specification sets the details.

The nine-step method and the record each step leavesA nine-step method, each step with the record it leaves: register (register line), collect (data and samples), field-measure (field note), draw (drawing revision), check (contractor stamp), flag deviations (encircled deviation), transmit (transmittal), track (log entry), resubmit (revision suffix).Nine steps, nine recordsRegisterregister lineCollectdata and samplesField-measurefield noteDrawdrawing revisionCheckcontractor stampFlag deviationsencircled deviationTransmittransmittalTracklog entryResubmitrevision suffixA method, not a standard:your spec sets the details.

Nine steps, each with the record it leaves: register (register line), collect (data and samples), field-measure (field note), draw (drawing revision), check (contractor stamp), flag deviations (encircled deviation), transmit (transmittal), track (log entry) and resubmit (revision suffix).

A way of working, not a standard. Your own specification sets the details of each step.

Sources

Glossary

Submittal register
The list of every submittal the specifications require, with the approving authority and dates, prepared and kept up as the work progresses.
Transmittal
The cover form that travels with a submittal and records what it is, who sent it, and which specification section and drawing it relates to.
Resubmittal
A corrected submittal sent after a "revise and resubmit" action, numbered as a revision of the original, such as 06100.01.A or 25B.
RFI log
A running table of every RFI by number, with its description and the dates it was sent and answered.
Girth
In AFS quoting, the sum of the legs plus any hem allowances, measured at the sharp corners. It is an AFS quoting figure, not a developed flat pattern.
Thermal movement
The change in length of a metal run with temperature: expansion coefficient times length times temperature swing.