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Title: What Contractors and Subcontractors need to know about Submittal Management


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What Contractors And Subcontractors Need to Know
About Submittal Management
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A submittal is a construction document, or a
document stack that consist of various contract
documents like product data samples, mock-ups,
shop drawings, and more. Contractors and
Subcontractors need to create these documents for
review by the concerned architect or engineer. It
is not easy to prepare these documents as it
takes in a lot of time and analysis to study each
facet of the project process.  Project engineers
are responsible to review the submittal log,
forward them to the concerned personnel, note the
approvals and return them back for editing or
changes. Submittal Management or Submittal
Management Services are vital for construction
personnel to initiate the project.
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What is the starting point?
The basis of the construction process begins with
plans and necessary specifications, these plans
are drawings that are actually delivered through
digital media, or on paper by various
stakeholders like engineers, architects, and
consultants. A project manual can turn into
hundreds and thousands of pages that includes
parameters like scheduling, project
documentation, third party payment processes, and
more. A plan is more of a visual presentation of
a project that depicts a structure put together
graphically.
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Submittals, and who needs to do it..
Submittals are prepared by General Contractors
and Subcontractors. Submittals are actual
physical samples of the project that are to be
delivered to architects, engineers, and various
project consultants before a project actually
begins. Construction Submittals include various
document formats like meeting minutes, project
information, shop drawings, etc. A project that
comprises of multiple subcontractors can envelope
hundreds, or even thousands of submittal
documents. Furthermore, if owners and contractors
look up to Submittal Management Services, they
can easily get their work cut down by miles, and
focus on various subject propositions that need
to be accomplished during project progress.
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Action Submittals 
As the word prescribes, Action Submittals are
project data or multiple shop drawings that need
to be verified by engineers and architects. If
there are changes that need to be made in any of
the action submittals, then are responded back to
the contractor or subcontractor for
rectifications. Now, there are ways these
submittals are responded to, these can be
designated with words like Approved, or Approved
with Notes, Revise and Resubmit, or if the
submittal is completely wrong, then it is marked
as Rejected and sent back to the general
contractor or subcontractor. Submittals can take
a lot of time to get approval from various
parties in the project. This was all about action
submittals, wherein an action needs to be taken
for construction submittals.
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Information and Closeout Submittals
Information submittals are submittals that
contain data, test reports, quality control,
meeting minutes, and more. These submittals give
out information to various parties informing them
about the data that needs to be reviewed in those
submittals, it serves as an information point for
all stakeholders. Closeout submittals are created
to inform all the parties and owners about
maintenance and operations through requirement of
extra assets like walls, floors, ceilings, etc.
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Why are they so important in the initial phase?
Project teams need to streamline the entire
process to anticipate major issues or ambiguities
that can be confronted during actual onsite
construction. This means, submittals are vital to
mitigate issues between architects, designers,
and builders to resolve problems behind the desk,
rather than onsite. Submittal Management
Services follow five key parameters to achieve
precise submittals. Study the info graphic to
know more.
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To sum up
Clear and concise submittals actually payoff in
technicalities. A submittal review and approval
procedure needs to be managed efficiently for
construction projects, old ways of storing
various data in silos can cause heavy efficiency
and productivity issues, leading to onsite
disputes. Poor quality submittals can also mark
questions on accountability, ability , and
transparency of contractors and subcontractors on
their submittal management services.
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