Construction guides
Running the job: RFIs, submittals, daily logs, inspections and the schedule.
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How Do You Do a Job Hazard Analysis?
Do a job hazard analysis as OSHA 3071 lays it out: break the task into steps, name each hazard, set controls in order, with a worked saw-cutting JHA.
· 6 min read
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How Do You Document a Weather Delay?
How a GC documents a weather delay that wins a time extension: the daily log entry, the critical path, comparing to normal weather, and the notice.
· 8 min read
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How Do You Fill Out the OSHA 300 Log?
Fill out the OSHA 300 log from 29 CFR 1904: who keeps one, which construction injuries are recordable, columns A to M, and a worked year with 300A totals.
· 8 min read
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How Do You Keep an RFI Log?
How a GC keeps an RFI log: the columns that matter, ball in court and days open, a filled-in log, and how to run it at the weekly meeting.
· 7 min read
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How Do You Run a Toolbox Talk?
Run a toolbox talk in ten minutes: one hazard from today's work, shown at the work, the controls, the crew's questions, and a record of who attended.
· 6 min read
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How Do You Run an OAC Meeting?
How a GC runs an owner-architect-contractor meeting: who attends, what each party brings, a worked agenda, and how open items carry to the next one.
· 8 min read
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How Do You Update a Construction Schedule?
How to update a construction schedule each month: the data date, actual dates, remaining durations, the baseline comparison and a slip narrative.
· 7 min read
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How Do You Write a Construction Incident Report?
Write a construction incident report: the first hour, the facts to record, the root cause, and how a filled-in report decides the OSHA 300 log.
· 7 min read
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How Do You Write a Recovery Schedule?
How a GC writes a recovery schedule: measure the slip, price crews, overtime and resequencing, show the days each recovers, and keep the logic honest.
· 8 min read
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How Do You Write a Weekly Owner Update?
How a GC writes a one-page weekly owner update: the numbers owners read, schedule status in one line, decisions needed, and an example.
· 7 min read
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How Does a Subcontractor Request a Substitution?
How a sub requests a product substitution: when the spec allows it, what the request must show, a side-by-side example, and how it is routed and decided.
· 7 min read
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How Does a Subcontractor Write a Notice of Delay?
How a subcontractor writes a notice of delay to the GC: what to include, when to send it, a sample letter, and why the subcontract's deadline comes first.
· 7 min read
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How Does an Architect Issue a Drawing Revision?
How an architect issues a revised drawing sheet: clouds around what changed, a delta with the revision number, the revision block and the issue.
· 7 min read
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How Does an Architect Write a Field Report?
How an architect writes a site visit field report: what to record, the words to use and avoid, a filled-in example, and carrying open items.
· 7 min read
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How Should a Contractor Prepare for an OSHA Inspection?
Prepare for an OSHA inspection on a construction site: the records to have ready, who meets the inspector, and each step of the visit from OSHA's manual.
· 6 min read
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How Should an Owner Respond to a GC's Delay Claim?
An owner's first 30 days after a contractor's delay claim: check the notice, sort the days by cause, test the schedule and money, answer in writing.
· 6 min read
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How to Write Construction Meeting Minutes (With Example)
How to write construction meeting minutes: header, attendance, numbered old and new business, action items with owners and dates, and an example.
· 7 min read
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Revise and Resubmit: What Should a Sub Do Next?
A submittal came back revise and resubmit. What a sub should do next: read every comment, answer each one, and get the next revision approved fast.
· 6 min read
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What Do You Do After a Failed Building Inspection?
What a GC does after a failed building inspection: split the correction notice by trade, fix and check, book the reinspection, protect the schedule.
· 7 min read
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What Does OSHA Require for Fall Protection?
OSHA fall protection in construction from 29 CFR 1926.501: the 6-foot rule, where other heights apply, the fall protection plan exception, a roof example.
· 8 min read
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What Does OSHA Require for Trench Safety?
OSHA trench rules from Subpart P: the 5-foot rule and its exceptions, soil types, sloping, shoring and trench boxes, daily inspections, a worked trench.
· 8 min read
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What Does OSHA's Silica Rule Require on a Job?
OSHA's construction silica rule, 29 CFR 1926.1153, task by task: Table 1 controls and respirators, the four-hour rule, the written plan, a worked day.
· 8 min read
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What Should a GC Do When a Sub Falls Behind?
What a GC does when a sub falls behind: measure it, talk, send written notice with a cure period, ask for a recovery plan, supplement, terminate.
· 7 min read
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How Do Architects and Engineers Review a Submittal?
How the design team reviews a submittal: what the review covers and what it doesn't, choosing the review code, writing comments, and returning it on time.
· 8 min read
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How to Write a Construction Daily Log (With Example)
How to write a construction daily log: what to record each day, a filled-in example, and the habits that make a log hold up in a delay claim.
· 6 min read
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How Should an Architect Respond to an RFI?
How the design team answers an RFI: check it against the documents, answer the question asked, cite the sheet and spec, and say if it changes the work.
· 8 min read
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How Do You Build a Three-Week Look-Ahead Schedule?
How to build a three-week look-ahead from the master schedule: crew-sized pieces of work, what must be ready, and how to run it at the weekly meeting.
· 7 min read
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How Does a Subcontractor Prepare a Submittal?
How a subcontractor prepares a submittal the GC and architect can approve the first time: what to include, how to mark it up, deviations, and resubmittals.
· 9 min read
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How Does an Architect Write an ASI?
How an architect writes an ASI: what it may change, the parts of a good one, a filled-in example, and when it must become a change order.
· 8 min read
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How Do Builders Schedule Trades on a Home Build?
How builders schedule trades on a new home: the trade order by phase, the inspections that gate each step, and how to keep subs lined up weeks ahead.
· 5 min read
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How Does an Owner Read a Construction Schedule?
How an owner reads a contractor's schedule: the Gantt chart, milestones, the critical path, float, the baseline, and what to ask at each update.
· 6 min read
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How to Write an RFI in Construction (With an Example)
How to write an RFI in construction: the parts of a good request for information, a filled-in example, common mistakes, and how the RFI log works.
· 9 min read