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Major commercial project coordination · Lesson 3 of 4

Major commercial project coordination: methods and worked application

A six-step method from reading the drawings to the submittal package, worked examples for pieces and expansion joints in a 62 ft run, writing an RFI, working a schedule backward, and sequencing and temporary protection.

You will be able to: Take a roof-edge scope from drawing set to a submittal-ready package, recording assumptions, units and inspection points, and work the pieces, expansion joints and schedule of an example run.

12 min · 12 slides · 8 questions

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The method in six steps

The method has six steps: read the drawings and specification, check them against limits, work out pieces and joints, raise an RFI for each gap, assemble the submittal package, and plan the meeting and the sequence.

Each step records its assumptions and units so a reviewer can follow the arithmetic.

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Glossary

Splice lap
The length by which one piece overlaps the next in a run. In AFS's piece count every piece after the first gives up the lap, so a lap can add a piece.
Takeoff confidence
AFS's high, medium or low rating of how sure a reading of a drawing is; anything not high is highlighted as unsure and is to be checked before the takeoff is sent.
Stale result
In the AFS Design Center, a saved result whose upstream section has since changed. It is flagged rather than silently recomputed, and the user recalculates.
Information-only submittal
In the federal UFGS, a submittal that needs no approval from the contracting officer, who marks it received; it is provided at least 14 calendar days before the preparatory meeting.