Your standards,
with the page number.
"What is the minimum edge distance for a ¾" bolt in your shop?" Answered in one sentence, with the page of your standards it came from, and checked against that page before it is shown. If it is not in your documents, it says so.
- Readsyour shop standards, the job specification, the contract drawings, the RFIs
- Answersone sentence, the page reference, a quote of the line it used
- Checks itselfthe answer is read back against the source before it is shown; a doubtful one is marked
- Counts"how many RFIs are open?" is counted from the register, not guessed from text
- Keeps apartone client's files are never visible to a question about another client
- Says nowhen the documents do not answer the question, it says they do not
Why a detailer
asks it
A detailer with twenty years on steel still does not have your standards by heart. Finding the page used to take ten minutes. Now it takes the question.
Ask
In plain words. "Bolt grade for secondary framing?" "Does the spec allow A325 or A490 here?" "Who answered RFI 14?"
Find
The relevant pages of your standards and the job documents are found, by meaning as well as by word, so "edge distance" finds "end distance" too.
Answer and check
One sentence with the page. Then the answer is read back against the page it cites; if they disagree, the answer is marked doubtful.
Detail
The detailer reads the page and details. The chat found and quoted; it did not decide anything about steel.
What a person
still does
All of the detailing. The chat is a faster way to the page.
- 01Reads the page.The answer points at the source. The detailer reads it; nobody details from a summary.
- 02Decides.Where the standards are silent or contradict the specification, a person decides and, if needed, raises the RFI.
- 03Not yet.It answers from documents we have been given. It does not read the model and it does not design.
Send us your standards.
Send one package with your shop standards in it. Every detailer on your job will be answering from them, with the page, from the first sheet.
Start a package— contract drawings and specs
— your shop standards
— the sequence or phase
— the date you need it