Working notes for general contractor teams on schedule review, RFIs and drawings, project records, closeout, and checking AI findings against their sources.
Connect schedules, RFIs and subcontractor updates to spot emerging construction risks, assign decisions and act before the next reporting cycle.
How GCs can test construction AI with source-linked reviews, clear approval boundaries and measures that reflect real project work.
A practical workflow for GCs to connect drawing revisions, RFIs and subcontractor commitments with the activities and handoffs they affect.
Why we drop findings whose evidence reference does not resolve, and why a dropped finding is a cheaper mistake than an unverifiable one.
Most weather delay claims fail on arithmetic, not weather. Here is the baseline, the threshold, and the float test that decide whether a lost day is compensable.
The last month is too late to reconstruct a project's evidence trail. Build the closeout map while equipment is installed and decisions are still fresh.
A practical way to turn a folder of drawings, specifications, addenda, scope exhibits, and schedules into a package a reviewer can actually trust.
An XER loading without an error shows that the receiving tool can parse the export. It does not prove semantic completeness, schedule integrity, or broader compatibility.
The tables, the record structure, and the five documented silent drops — baselines, risk data, past-period actuals, secure codes, and resource curves.
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