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Project delivery and program guides
Who reviews the drawings, and when, depends on how the project is delivered. These guides cover delivery methods, tenders, and milestone reviews.
Follow an addendum through the whole bid packageCheck construction addenda against bid drawings, specifications and dependent schedules. Track scope questions with an editable CSV checklist. Make the document questions visible before the GMPReview the drawings, specifications, assumptions and unresolved decisions behind a guaranteed maximum price. Includes a pre-GMP checklist CSV. Trace a proposed substitution through its interfacesReview value engineering proposals and substitutions against project performance, support, services and design requirements. Includes a comparison CSV. Reduce avoidable RFIs with drawing reviewFind avoidable drawing questions before construction. Learn how to verify conflicts, route clarifications, and backcheck responses, with a free worksheet. 30%, 60%, and 90% design reviewPlan reviews around design maturity. Use a practical 30/60/90 milestone matrix for inputs, coordination questions, reviewers, and expected outputs. How drawing review works under each project delivery methodWho reviews construction drawings in DBB, design-build, CMAR, GC/CM, and IPD? Compare review stages, responsibilities, and how Groundbook supports each workflow. Construction project delivery methods: an owner's guideAn owner's guide to construction project delivery methods: compare design-bid-build, design-build, GC/CM, CMAR, IPD, and more, with a project selection guide. Small drawing errors. Expensive construction fixes.What research says about construction rework costs, why drawing conflicts escape review, and how earlier AI-assisted checks can help prevent expensive corrections. Data Center Construction: How Plan Review Helps Teams Build FasterData center plan review helps teams improve drawing coordination, reduce avoidable permit resubmittals, and address construction RFIs and rework. Tender drawings: what they are and how to review them before you priceTender drawings meaning: the set issued to contractors to price the work, called the bid set in the US. See what it contains and what to check before pricing. Tender vs. construction drawings: how to find what changed after awardThe construction set rarely matches the set you priced. Compare tender and Issued for Construction drawings, log each change, and raise it in time. AI in airport construction workflowsWhere AI fits across an airport program's five stages: planning, design, document review, construction, and operations, each with its own maturity read. How to write a DD-to-CD change narrativeWhat a DD-to-CD change narrative is, who reads it, what to include, and a step-by-step method for building one from two drawing sets.
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Construction document review basicsWhat construction document review covers, the vocabulary it uses, and how to prepare a set. Drawing review checklists by disciplineSheet-by-sheet checklists for a single discipline, most with an editable CSV. Cross-discipline coordination guidesWhere consultant documents disagree with each other, and the checks that surface it. Mass timber coordination guidesCoordinate CLT and glulam drawings across disciplines before fabrication. Specifications vs. drawings guidesTrace a specification section into the drawings, schedules, and details that have to match it. Comparing drawing revisions and toolsWhat each vendor's own compare feature checks, and the question none of them answer. California permitting and state plan reviewState agency review for schools and healthcare, and private plan review under AB 253. Building codes, permitting, and calculatorsAdopted codes, plan check responses, and free calculators that show their math. Review evidence and evaluationPublished findings, accuracy pilots, and how to prioritise what a review returns.
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