In the initial stage of our work the pre-construction planning and all of our submittals will be administered by Building Solutions Since 1977, LLC. We will assign a full time project coordinator that will provide a single point of contact for you and your company for each new project.
In order to provide the highest level of support and service, the following is our pre-construction process and typical time lines for each activity. After many years of experience and many successful projects, we have strong belief that proper pre-construction planning and communication is critical to the timely execution of our scope of work at the lowest possible overall cost. Our pre-construction work will begin within 3 business days of receipt of a fully executed contract and a digital copy of the CAD files for the project as outlined in our proposal. (We define receipt of the contract and CAD files as the pre-construction start date).
Our pre-construction work almost always discovers errors and/or generates questions. We will address all such issues using a written ‘Request For Information’ (RFI) submission. All responses must be in a written response to the RFI. Our ability to provide timely pre-construction work product is wholly dependent upon timely responses to requests for information (RFI) advanced by our engineering department.
Our Pre-construction Services phase is administered in a 6 stage submission format on a building type by building type format, assuming all RFI’s have been answered and we have all window and door rough opening schedules on our rough opening format.
Stage 1 We will provide all of our typical framing detail shop drawings and our control lines plans within 10 business days of our pre-construction services start date.
Stage 2 We will provide our fully dimensioned wall plan layout plan view submission within 5 business days of receipt of all windows and door rough openings and full approval on our Stage 1 submission. We do not provide individual panel shop drawings.
Stage 3 Upon receipt of approval on previous submission and/or answers to relevant RFI’s we will provide floor truss shop drawings (sealed) and our floor truss layout view plan (unsealed) within 5 business days of receipt of Stage 2 submission approval.
Stage 4 Upon receipt of approval on previous submission and/or answers to relevant RFI’s we will provide roof truss shop drawings (sealed), roof truss layout plan (unsealed), industry “best practices” truss bracing plan within 5 business days of receipt or our Stage 3 submission approval.
Stage 5 Upon receipt of approval on previous submission and/or answers to relevant RFI’s we will provide our hardware, hold down and/or uplift resistance cable system submission within 5 business days of receipt of our Stage 4 submission approval.
Stage 6 Within 5 business days of receipt of approvals on Stage 1 through 5 submissions we will provide product submissions for all applicable products to the jobs, including but not limited to:
- Pressure Preservation Treatment
- Fire Treatment
- Lumber Species Design Value
- Sealants
- Adhesives
- Epoxies
- Sheet Goods
- Flashing/Tapes
- WRB System
- Hardware
- Gypsum/Shaft Liner Products