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Sheet 01 · Built To Protect Your Schedule, Not Audit Your Work

NOT A REVIEW OF YOUR WORK. ONE LESS CLASH YOUR CREW FINDS IN THE FIELD.

A construction document review for general contractors is an independent check of the issued design documents — drawings and specs — run before anything is priced or built. It's not scoped to grade your workmanship or your means and methods; there isn't any yet at this stage. It's scoped to catch the cross-discipline conflicts in what you're being asked to build from, before your crew finds them in the field and before a dispute starts over whose number the fix comes out of.

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What This Isn't

IT CHECKS THE PAPER. IT DOESN'T CHECK YOU.

This review runs on the issued set before pricing or construction starts — before there's field work, a sub's install, or a punch list to grade. It reads the drawings and specs, not the job site. The goal is the same one your own coordination review has: fewer conflicts making it to the field. This is one more set of eyes catching them earlier, not a second pass judging your crew's performance.

Not A Performance Audit

Nothing about your crew, your subs, or your install is in scope — there's nothing built yet to review.

Not Means & Methods

How you sequence, staff, or execute the work is entirely yours. This stays on the issued documents.

Not A Substitute For Your Coordination Review

Your team's pricing-focused coordination pass still runs. This one runs alongside it, earlier and independently.

What Gets Caught Before You're On The Hook

EVERY SHEET, READ FOR WHAT SHOWS UP AS A CHANGE ORDER LATER.

The issued set is read once, in full, by reviewers who've drawn these sets themselves — not a keyword search, not a single-discipline pass. Four things get checked on every construction document review:

SUBMITTAL CROSS-CHECKS

Specified equipment and finishes checked against what's actually drawn and scheduled — before it's priced and someone has to eat the swap.

SPEC-TO-DRAWING ALIGNMENT

Written spec sections read against the sheets they're paired with — the mismatches that turn into an RFI mid-install.

CODE COMPLIANCE

Fire ratings, egress, and life-safety call-outs checked for consistency sheet to sheet, before an inspector stops the work.

MEP COORDINATION

Structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing sheets cross-read for routing and clearance conflicts, before a sub finds them with a ladder in hand.

The output is a written findings report — every conflict located by sheet and detail, severity-ranked (High/Med/Low), with an estimated dollar exposure and schedule impact on each — plus a live walkthrough meeting. See the full four-step process on the homepage, or the complete step-by-step procedure and turnaround detail on what happens during a construction document audit.

Where This Sits

ALONGSIDE YOUR TEAM'S CHECKS. ONE FEWER THING YOUR CREW HAS TO ABSORB.

vs. Architect QC

DESIGN INTENT VS. FIELD-READY CLARITY

The architect's QC checks the set against design intent. This review is a separate pass looking for what turns into an RFI or stop-work once your crew is building from it. What owner-side QA/QC actually means →

vs. Your Coordination Review

PRICING THE WORK VS. FLAGGING THE RISK IN WRITING

Your coordination review is scoped to price the work accurately and keep subs from colliding in the field. This one is scoped to put cross-discipline conflicts in writing, severity-ranked, before pricing locks in.

vs. BIM Clash Detection

GEOMETRY VS. THE ISSUED PAPER

Clash detection catches modeled elements overlapping in 3D. This review reads the issued set itself — specs, notes, and sheet-to-sheet conflicts a coordinated model never surfaces. Full comparison →

Preempt Global also gets compared against clash-list and checklist software directly: see vs. RediCheck, vs. LightTable AI, and vs. CHECKSET.

Why This Matters To You

the cost of a conflict reaching the field, across the industry

$177 billion

yearly cost of un-coordinated construction items

3-5 weeks

avg. schedule delay per commercial project

12%

of total project budget goes to change orders

76%

of projects fall behind schedule due to poor QA/QC

A clash caught in a construction document review costs one redline and five minutes. The same conflict caught in the field averages $18,400 and a 12-day schedule slip — and the dispute over whose number absorbs it. If your project has multiple trades sharing tight coordination — any size, no minimum construction value — that's the gap this review is built to close before your crew ever sees it.

The Guarantee

$50K IN EXPOSURE FOUND, OR THE REVIEW IS FREE.

If a construction document review doesn't surface at least $50,000 in documented cost exposure, no one pays for it — no partial credit, no fine print, on every pricing tier. On a set of this size and complexity, there's always something to find before it becomes a field problem with your name on it.

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Before You Ask

STILL GOT QUESTIONS?
HERE'S THE STRAIGHT ANSWER.

Is a construction document review an audit of the general contractor's work? +

No. It runs on the issued design documents — drawings and specs — before pricing or construction starts, which means before there's any GC work to audit. It's scoped to catch conflicts in what you're being asked to build from, not to grade what you've built.

If the owner ordered this, not the GC, why does it matter to my crew? +

Because a cross-discipline conflict caught on paper costs one redline. The same conflict caught in the field costs an RFI, a stop-work, and a dispute over whose number it comes out of — usually the GC's, even when the drawings caused it. Fewer conflicts reaching the field means fewer of those conversations.

Doesn't the GC's own coordination review already catch this? +

The GC's coordination review is scoped to price the work accurately and keep subs from colliding once you're building — real, necessary, and not replaced here. This review reads the issued documents independently, before your team is committed to a price or a schedule built on them, and catches what a pricing-focused pass isn't scoped to look for.

Who typically orders a construction document review for general contractors — the owner or the GC? +

Most often the owner or the owner's rep, since it's an owner-paid review that reports to the owner. GCs increasingly ask for one during preconstruction anyway, specifically because fewer design conflicts reaching the field means fewer disputes over cost and schedule that land on the GC's side of the table. See the breakdown built for owners →

When should this run relative to a GC's bid or GMP? +

Pre-bid or at GMP is the ideal window — findings land before the number is locked in. It's just as useful at any bulletin, addendum, or RFI-driven revision after that, since a revised issued set can introduce the same conflicts a first one did.

What kinds of projects need this? +

Any set with multiple trades sharing tight coordination — office, manufacturing, warehouse and distribution, healthcare, higher-ed, data centers, multifamily residential, and other complex, multi-discipline builds. There's no minimum construction value; the deciding factor is coordination complexity, not project size.