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Do you find yourself with too many notes and marked up pages to easily incorporate into a drawing set? Or do you fear that pieces of information have ‘gone missing’ during the construction process, leaving you with incomplete information to pass along to the client?  \nThis is an all-too-familiar scenario in the construction industry. And like other document control issues, it is usually a function of not having the right information in the right place at the right time. By the time drawings are produced, cumulative errors from the document management process, along with missing markups and revisions, can result in a highly inaccurate and disjointed set of drawings.  \nFortunately, technological innovations are helping this situation. Construction management software companies are adding functionalities to their product suites which follow every phase of a project’s construction, from estimating and planning all the way through to completion. The result is a complete record set, the product of an iterative information sharing loop that can include related RFIs, punch items, markups, and detail callouts. Because the drawings always reflect the current status of the project in real time, team members are automatically in possession of an accurate as-built drawing set upon project completion.  \n1   \neBook  Generating Accurate As-Built Drawing Sets  \nWHAT IS AN AS-BUILT  \nDRAWING SET?  \nAs-built drawings are intended to represent the finished condition of a newly built structure. The term “as-builts” is often used interchangeably with “record documents”(although legal parsings generally suggest some differences between the two) . Architects and designers are usually responsible for compiling this final drawing set, but because they are not always onsite to see work being performed first-hand, they rely on drawing markups from contractors in the field. This means that owner-architect agreements typically include language relieving architects of liability for any inaccuracies. Contractual documents, therefore, are likely to place responsibility for as-built accuracy with the contractor. Often, contract language also specifies that changes be “redlined;” that is, modifications to the original design need to be clearly identifiable.  \nSHARE THIS eBOOK!  \n2   \neBook  Generating Accurate As-Built Drawing Sets  \nHOW WERE DRAWINGS MANAGED BEFORE?  \nHistorically, all information was tracked and captured using paper documents. In the preelectronic world, the construction industry, like all industries, put sophisticated systems in place to organize and track their printed materials. Rigid rules governed every aspect of construction documents, from the timing of printing to assembly requirements. Even so, keeping up effective communications between team members and maintaining updated documents proved almost impossible and costly.  \nPaper documents are now being replaced by electronic files, not only for original construction documents but for the contractually specified drawings of record (which are usually requested to be in PDF or CAD format) . In the field, however, it is still common for markups to be done on paper. And for a commercial construction project, the amount of documents required can number in the thousands. Transferring accurate information from one document set to another is an enormous challenge.  \nSHARE THIS eBOOK!  \n3   \neBook  Generating Accurate As-Built Drawing Sets  \nAs with document management on the administration end, standard procedures for drawing markups have been established in the field. Typically, design drawings—either digital files or paper copies—are sent from architects to general contractors, then distributed in sets to subcontractors. Subcontractors usually have the drawings printed if they are not in ","cbCaifw74cAfNhkp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifw74cAfNhkp","pdf",4513281,12,"English","# What Is an As-Built Drawing Set?\n# How Were Drawings Managed Before?\n# The Solution: Real Time Data Capture","[{\"question\":\"What problem does generating an as-built drawing set usually face at the end of a project?\",\"answer\":\"Teams often struggle with too many marked-up notes and pages to integrate, while missing or outdated information can leave incomplete details for the client. 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