Why Documentation needs to be Priority in Every Construction Project
What is an RFI? Why are submittals so important? Who needs to track transmittals? These questions are asked everyday in the construction industry outlining an underlying issue within the construction industry, lack of digitalization. As I discussed in a previous post, Construction and Technology: An Unlikely Duo , the construction industry is the second least digitized industry in the United States falling only behind hunting / agriculture. It's all too common to see project managers and superintendents putting too little emphasis on proper documentation in favor of maintaining schedule. Even if the project manager has the best intentions, or makes the correct decision, the undocumented change or modification will be just that, undocumented, and opens pandoras box for change order rejection and General Contractor liability in the future. Liability has always been present in construction; or any other service, manufacturing, or goods industry. As information technology has bec...
