A submittal is something the contractor sends for approval before it is built or installed — shop drawings, product data, samples, calculations. Submittals hang off the specification they answer to, which is what makes "everything outstanding against 09 21 16" a question you can ask.
This topic includes:
The submittals list
Submittal items, each against a specification section, with the manager and the
responsible contractor.
Items, packages and revisions
- An item is one thing being submitted, against one spec section.
- A package groups items that travel together for review.
- A revision is a resubmission. The revision number rises; the history stays.
Each item records a type — Shop Drawings, Product Data, Samples, Calculations — a manager, a responsible contractor, a priority and a due date.
Statuses
Draft, Required, Open, Closed and Void. Required is the useful one
at the start of a job: it lets you build the register of everything the
specification demands before any of it has been sent.
Tip: create the Required items from the specification first. The submittal register then doubles as the checklist of what is still owed.