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We introduced a weekly constructability review where the site engineer walks the next six weeks of work through the model with the designer.
Requests for information are a symptom: they show where the drawings and the site disagree. The earlier you find those gaps, the cheaper they are.
We introduced a weekly constructability review where the site engineer walks the next six weeks of work through the model with the designer. Every question raised is logged and assigned before it becomes a formal RFI.
The number of open RFIs at handover fell sharply, and the questions that remained were genuine design decisions rather than coordination errors.
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