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Sheet 01 · The Procedure, The Turnaround, The Deliverable
A construction document audit is a procedure, not a black box: an owner side construction review that runs directly against your issued set — no model, no special software required to start. Run as a pre-construction document review, before the set is bid or built, it turns into a written, severity-ranked findings report inside 48 hours. Here's exactly what happens between sending the set and reading the report.
48-Hour Turnaround · No Model Required · $50K Exposure Guarantee
Step By Step
A 30-minute call to look at the set's size and complexity, confirm which tier fits, and set expectations before anything is signed. Nothing about the set is shared yet.
Confidentiality is in place before a single drawing moves. The set is deleted on completion — never retained past the engagement.
Drawings and specs, in whatever format they already exist. One reviewer reads the full set: sheet against sheet, discipline against discipline, spec against drawing, general note against detail — logging each conflict against its sheet reference as it's found.
Every finding priced, severity-ranked, and delivered as a written report — then walked through live in a meeting, not left buried in a PDF.
Why 48 Hours, Specifically
A 48-hour turnaround isn't a marketing number — it's what's possible when a set gets one continuous, focused read the moment it arrives, by a reviewer who's drawn these sets themselves, rather than being split across a shift schedule or stacked behind a backlog of other engagements.
That matters because a set that sits in a queue is a set that's still exposed while it waits. A pre-construction document review that takes three weeks to come back has already missed the window on anything that needed to be redlined before bid.
ONE FOCUSED READ. 48 HOURS, EVERY TIME.
What The Findings Report Actually Looks Like
Every finding lands in the report the same way: a severity tier, a sheet reference, a plain-language description of the conflict, an estimated dollar exposure range, and a schedule-impact estimate. Critical and High findings get a full write-up, not just a line item.
| Priority | Finding | Est. Field Cost | Schedule Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | Structural beam clash — HVAC duct routing, Level 4 | $42,000 | 18 days |
| MED | Electrical panel schedule doesn't match one-line diagram | $6,200 | 3 days |
| LOW | Door hardware finish mismatch — Suite 220 | $400 | 0 days |
This isn't illustrative dress-up — it's the format. See an actual anonymized findings file, 26 real findings from one bid set at the exact level of detail a paying client receives, and read the anatomy of a findings report for how each line gets built.
Pre-Construction Document Review: Where This Fits
The same audit procedure runs whether the set is at pre-bid or issued-for-construction — what changes is how much is still a redline versus already priced into a bid. Run as a pre-construction document review, before the set goes out, a finding is still just a line move on a sheet. Run after bid, the same finding means reconciling what was priced against what actually has to get built.
Timing changes the value of the same 48-hour procedure — see pre-bid vs. IFC review timing for the full breakdown of when to run it.
Owner Side Construction Review: Who It's For
An owner or owner's rep is who typically commissions this, on any project with multiple trades sharing tight coordination — there's no minimum construction value. It runs alongside the architect's QC and the GC's coordination review, not instead of either one, because neither of those was ever scoped to report to the owner specifically. See what owner-side QA/QC actually means for the full distinction, and what a construction document review is if the underlying terms need unpacking first.
The Guarantee
If a construction document audit doesn't surface at least $50,000 in documented cost exposure, you don't pay for it — no partial credit, no fine print, on every pricing tier.
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The full issued package — drawings and specs together, across every discipline. No particular software or format is required; whatever you already have as the current issued set is what the audit runs against.
No. The audit reads the issued drawings and specs directly, so it can run whether or not a coordination-ready model exists yet — unlike BIM clash detection, which needs one as a prerequisite. See what BIM clash detection catches (and misses) for the full distinction.
48 hours from the point the set is received, for a single-pass review. That includes the full cross-discipline read and the written findings report — not just a first look.
A severity-ranked register (Critical/High/Medium/Low), one line per finding, with a sheet reference, a plain-language description of the conflict, an estimated dollar exposure range, and a schedule-impact estimate — plus a full write-up for anything Critical or High, and a live walkthrough meeting to go through it. See a real anonymized example.
If a construction document audit doesn't surface at least $50,000 in documented cost exposure, the client doesn't pay for it — no partial credit, no fine print. On a multi-discipline set of any real size, there's consistently something to find.
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