How Shop Drawings Reduce Risks in Construction Projects Liabilities

With today’s changing construction industry landscape, building construction projects are getting stiffer as far as economics and risk management are concerned. Project finances are suffering, risks are increasing, and contractors are always in the crunch of money, time and labor.

As the project advances to the construction stage, more challenges start surfacing. Construction companies and general contractors embark on to shop drawings and Request for Information (RFIs) where enhanced management is found. To manage every service offered by the construction company, onsite engineers and contractors leverage shop drawings and steel shop drawing to manage their activities with fabricators and sub-contractors.

But even shop drawings are eccentric in assisting contractors when everything is haywire on site owing to mismatching of data at multiple technical levels.

Drawings discrepancies and challenges on construction site

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