subject: Why You Should Review Shop Drawings & Submittals Before Fabrication? [print this page] Shop Drawings are technical drawings, diagrams, schedules and other details particularly produced for certain portion of construction work by the contractor or manufacturer.
For the Building construction industry, shop drawings are "an essential evil". For Contractors producing shop drawings is a costly affair and for architects they are quit difficult to review. The fact is that one cannot construct buildings without shop drawings; but production of shop drawings is becoming more complex day by day and notably a considerable source of liability claim against the architect.
Shop Drawing Process as per AIA Manual:
As per standard AIA construction Manual, The contractor is required to oblige to the contract documents and must submit shop drawings, design data and samples to the architect for approval. The architect is responsible to comply with the owner-architect agreement and review/approve/take necessary action on the submittals provided by the contractor.
Are Shop Drawings Really Needed?
The drawings and specifications prepared by the contractor should furnish complete details regarding the design concept, construction components and their relationship with each other. Many times the Shop drawing supplier may provide additional drawings, diagrams and schedules to clearly show the way in which fabrication, assembly and installation work will be carried out.
Architects and engineers must thoroughly review shop drawings in order to ensure that the contractor has clearly interpreted the architectural and engineering design concepts as per the contract document. It also helps them to correct any mistakes before they are sent for the fabrication or to the construction site.
Reviewing and correcting shop drawings prior to construction is more economical option than to remove and replace fallacious construction. If shop drawing review and production of it as per contract specifications is not core to your expertise, then outsourcing the whole process makes sense for you. At OSD services we have skilled and experienced team of structural shop drawers, detailers and checkers to deliver quality, error-free and on-time shop drawings as per the contract specifications.
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