Shop Drawing Review
Shop Drawing Review
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Greetings,
I am looking to get some young design engineers engaged in shop drawing review, primarily for water/wastewater treatment plant equipment, piping, valves, and pumps. I was hoping to find an established shop drawing review checklist that will help guide them in their first endeavors so they can better ascertain how to perform a complete and appropriate review of shop drawings that may involve multiple disciplines.
I have checked EJCDC and AIA websites, but found nothing useful. Can anybody offer a suggestion on where to find such a checklist so I may share with these engineers. Thank you.
I am looking to get some young design engineers engaged in shop drawing review, primarily for water/wastewater treatment plant equipment, piping, valves, and pumps. I was hoping to find an established shop drawing review checklist that will help guide them in their first endeavors so they can better ascertain how to perform a complete and appropriate review of shop drawings that may involve multiple disciplines.
I have checked EJCDC and AIA websites, but found nothing useful. Can anybody offer a suggestion on where to find such a checklist so I may share with these engineers. Thank you.





RE: Shop Drawing Review
For the specification information, they'll get a copy of the specification and a highlighter. They go through the submittal and highlight each piece of information in the submittal that matches. When everything is highlighted in the copy, the submittal is reviewed.
I don't think you'll find a nice checklist. They need to check everything that's in the contract documents. That's their checklist.
RE: Shop Drawing Review
What I am doing to review a drawing is to follow machining steps, then if you are missing a dimensions to cut one feature you know where is the problem. This way, you can catch almost all the missing dimensions if they are in 3D model already. To catch design problems, one has to assume design engineer role to come up with improvement ideas.
RE: Shop Drawing Review
RE: Shop Drawing Review
Now, ten years later, I like to do my own reviews...in my industry, the battle is won and lost in the specifications.
RE: Shop Drawing Review
We mentor our younger engineers in how to do it, (how to check model numbers, how to check ASTM numbers, etc.) and run a less time consuming back check of their work. That way the younger engineer gets trained and the company makes money because the older (more expensive) engineer didnt have to do all the work.
They get what they pay for because we give them a quality check, but don't tie up the older engineer in something a younger (and less expensive) engineer can do with proper training and oversight.
RE: Shop Drawing Review