Chapter 7 Quiz

C. Shop drawings are submittals — the contractor's representation of how it intends to build what the contract documents require. Reviewing a submittal does not modify the contract. A, B, and D are all enumerated contract documents in essentially every standard form.

D. Under a complementary clause you have no authority to self-resolve — the architect interprets. A is wrong because "specifications govern over drawings" is one possible regime, not a universal rule. B misapplies the figured-dimension convention, which resolves scaled versus written dimensions on the same drawing, not drawing-versus-spec conflicts.

B. The second character is the view type: 6 = schedules and diagrams. Plans are 1, elevations 2, sections 3, large-scale views 4, details 5, schedules and diagrams 6.

B. Division 00 is procurement and contracting requirements (bid forms, the agreement, general and supplementary conditions). Division 01 is general requirements — and it is the division no trade owns, which is why it defaults to the general contractor.

C. Field Quality Control lives in Part 3. Part 1 carries submittals, quality assurance, mockups, and warranty; Part 2 carries what you buy.

B. A bulletin is a request for pricing. Building a bulletin is building unpriced, undirected scope. A describes a construction change directive; C describes a change order; D describes what an ASI claims to be.

B. UniFormat organizes by building element (B2010 Exterior Walls), which captures everything the change drags with it — framing, insulation, air barrier, sealants, connections, crane requirements — as one system. MasterFormat would price the visible panel section and miss the cascade.

C. Order-of-precedence clauses resolve conflicts between document families. Two architectural sheets are the same family. The "large-scale governs over small-scale" convention may help if one is a detail and one is a plan; otherwise the architect must interpret. There is no "lower sheet number" or "later sheet" rule.

B. Design is divided by discipline, and each consultant is careful inside its own boundary. Nobody is paid to own the seam. That is why Pass 6 of the review method goes deliberately to boundaries — between disciplines, between subcontracts, between furnish and install, at the five-foot utility line.

C. $5,150 per calendar day of extended general conditions plus $5,500 per calendar day of liquidated damages.

B. One line imports the whole standard, including its test methods, acceptance criteria, frequencies, and reports. Check which edition applies; if the section is silent and the standard has been revised, that ambiguity is worth an RFI. And where the adopted code is stricter, the code governs, because it is law.

C. Most general conditions impose a duty to study, compare, and promptly report discovered errors, inconsistencies, and omissions. Proceeding with knowledge generally shifts responsibility for the resulting damages to the contractor, and can waive the associated claim.

False. Three real mechanisms: reproduction (half-size sets, "fit to page" PDFs), printing distortion (paper stretch, non-uniform plotter shrink), and — most importantly — a dimension string states intent while a line is only a representation of it. That is why figured dimensions govern over scaled.

False. Nothing said at a pre-bid meeting binds anyone unless it is reissued as an addendum. If it matters, ask for it in writing before bid.

False. A detail tells you how one condition is built. Extent comes from plans, elevations, sections, and schedules. Confusing the two is a classic takeoff error.

False. It contains no trade work, which is exactly why it is dangerous: no subcontractor's survival depends on reading it, so everything in it defaults silently to the general contractor's general requirements budget. Ray's $214,000 lesson.

False. An RFI response interprets the documents. If the interpretation adds scope, that is a change — and you have a notice obligation with a deadline. Silence after an RFI response that adds work is how contractors perform free work.

False. They are a weekly habit — the field engineer redlines the control set in a distinct color, initialed and dated, about fifteen minutes a week. Reconstructing fourteen months of field changes from memory at closeout produces a fiction, and the owner's facilities team will need the truth at 2 a.m. in year three.

(1) Read Division 00 and 01 completely, before any drawing. (2) Cross-check drawings against specs by assembly, not sheet by sheet. (3) Cross-check disciplines against each other at the same location. (4) Check schedules against plans for count. (5) Check details against sections for continuity of the barrier, the vapor retarder, and the rated line. (6) Go deliberately to the seams — between disciplines, between subcontracts, between furnish and install, at match lines and the five-foot utility line.

The scope delta itself is unchanged — on Northgate's air barrier conflict, $18,900 either way. What changes is everything the delta now has to move: work already installed must be removed and reinstalled ($95,200 across 14,000 SF), failed performance must be investigated and remediated ($22,400), the designer must be paid for supplemental service ($8,600), and the correction consumes critical-path time (11 CD × $10,650/CD = $117,150). $20,200 versus $262,250 — 13.0×. The general principle: in preconstruction a conflict costs the price of an answer; in the field it costs the price of an answer plus the price of everything built on the wrong one.

The mechanism is incentive. Every other division has a trade attached to it: Division 03 is read by concrete subs, Division 26 by electricians, because that is how each of them prices and gets paid. Division 01 has no trade attached. There is no "general requirements subcontractor," so no bidder's commercial survival depends on reading it — which means everything in it defaults, silently, to the general contractor's general requirements budget. On Northgate that budget is $2,900,000, burning at $5,150 per calendar day for 565 days, whether or not anyone read the document defining what it must cover.

Three obligations that appear on no drawing: an independent testing and inspection agency engaged and paid by the contractor; contractor-prepared composite coordination drawings with a defined review process; and construction waste diversion targets with sorting, hauling, and documentation requirements. Others that qualify: required mockups, temporary heat, monthly progress photography, commissioning support labor, work restrictions in owner-occupied areas, and closeout training and record-document deliverables.

(a) None of them yet — and that is the right answer. Two of the three documents are architectural drawings, so no order-of-precedence clause resolves it, and under a complementary clause the architect interprets. The real finding is that partition type C-2 is internally inconsistent: a 2-hour rating on a non-loadbearing steel-stud partition generally requires two layers each side or a different listed assembly, so its description does not match the rating it claims.

(b) Stop that specific wall but move the crew to non-conflicted work on the same floor (stopping eleven people costs roughly $600/hour; moving them costs the walk). Check the current revision of A-011 and G-004 against the drawing log, the rated-assembly schedule on the G-series, and the AHJ-stamped permit set. Tell the superintendent and the PM verbally, then in writing, and log it.

(c) Precise references (sheet + revision, section + article) for all three documents; the conflict stated without argument; a suggested resolution; and separate schedule-impact and cost-impact statements.

(d) Guess low (build 1-hour, need 2-hour, caught after finishes): roughly $284,042 — added board, ceiling grid removal and reinstall, re-firestopping, re-taping and painting, 46 replaced door frames because the throat depth no longer matches the wall thickness, re-inspection, and 7 CD of delay. Guess high (build 2-hour, only 1-hour required): roughly $62,540 unrecoverable, because betterment furnished without a directive is not compensable. Write the RFI: 45 minutes, $0.