Tilt up construction scope gaps, and where the shell packages stop
Tilt up construction scope gaps appear at the panel joints, the embeds and the perimeter, where three packages meet and each assumes another closes it.
Constructability, scope and design
The gaps between trade packages, and drawings that disagree with the specification.
What this covers
The questions in this category
- Where scope gaps always appear
- Why clash detection is not a commercial review
- Drawings against specification
- A price agreed before design is finished
- Existing conditions nobody surveyed
- Base building against fit out
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Warehouse slab tolerance specification, and the racking it has to serve
A warehouse slab tolerance specification is a number that decides whether the racking works. Getting it wrong is discovered after the concrete has cured.
Phased construction occupied healthcare facility work, and the swing space it needs
Phased construction occupied healthcare facility work depends on swing space and decant dates, and both of those belong to the owner, not the builder.
Medical equipment construction coordination, and the decisions that arrive late
Medical equipment construction coordination fails on timing rather than on drawing. The room is built before the machine that defines it has been selected.
Owner furnished equipment construction risk, and the gap it creates
Owner furnished equipment construction risk is not about the equipment. It is the five items around it that no trade package claims by name.
Podium construction cost risk, and what sits in the transfer level
Podium construction cost risk sits at one level, where a residential grid lands on a parking grid and every discipline changes direction at once.
Core and shell scope gaps, and the handover line nobody drew
Core and shell scope gaps open at the line between base building and tenant work, because that line is described twice and drawn properly by neither.
Existing conditions risk, and the survey that was never done
Existing conditions risk on a renovation is carried by whoever the contract says. What a survey establishes, and what an as built drawing does not.
MEP coordination, and the ceiling space everyone assumed was empty
MEP coordination decides whether the services fit above the ceiling. When it happens after the price is fixed, the fix is always paid by somebody.
Construction commissioning scope, and who is paying for it
Construction commissioning proves the building works. The scope sits across three contracts and the gaps between them are found at the worst moment.
Drawings vs specification conflict in construction, and who decides
A drawings vs specification conflict in construction is priced by whoever saw it first. The order of precedence clause decides the argument that follows.
Clash detection vs constructability review, and what each one finds
Clash detection vs constructability review is a question of what gets tested. One compares geometry. The other reads scope descriptions against drawings.
Scope gaps between trade packages, and where they always appear
Scope gaps between trade packages appear in the same six places on almost every job. Each one is a change order waiting for somebody to notice it first.
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