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Shop Drawing Review

Shop Drawing Review

Shop Drawing Review

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How do others handle review of shop drawings when the owner had made a change since the drawings were issued? Often we circle the area and tell the detailer to see the new drawings and then continue on checking the rest of the project. Problem is, the changed area is often resubmitted for review and then we have to check the shop drawings all over again. I find this a little annoying. I have toyed with the idea of noting in the revised drawings that we only reviewed the area circled in the last submittal but I am not sure if this is the correct way to go about solving this problem.

RE: Shop Drawing Review

Unless it's a time sensitive item where they need to and can start production on individual parts of the submittal, I tell them to resubmit the entire submittal with the updates. It saves me from having to review something twice potentially and it's usually no extra work for the contractor as the part that needs the revision they would have done anyway.

RE: Shop Drawing Review

Ask the contractor to cloud the changes on the resubmittal. Just review the clouded areas.

RE: Shop Drawing Review

You could call the detailer and ask him what he wants to do. If schedule is ridiculous, you may need to review as much as you can so the fabricator can get going. If you still have a reasonable schedule, it is likely that the fabricator doesn't want to deal with unnecessary additional paperwork and wouldn't mind just getting a clean set of documents through once all the changes have percolated.

RE: Shop Drawing Review

I like WannabeSE's suggestion, and this is what I see from most steel fabricators in my area. They will put a revision line in the title block with a delta number, and then place clouds and that same delta number at all revisions throughout the set. This helps avoid confusion later.

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