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Paperless Submittals - The How

2/13/2013

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Paperless submittals work very well. Technology is the key to saving time, postage, and paper/printing.

In the traditional way of handling submittals, there were numberous time consuming steps: log in the submittal, stamp the submittal with a 'received' date, stamp the pages of each copy of the submittal with the review stamp, review and mark up one copy, copy all the review comments to the other copies, prepare for mailing/delivery, add transmittal, update log. 

Then repeat when the corrections are received. With paperless submittals, only the underlined steps above remain. Transfering the review comments is time-consuming, tedious, and exacting. The perfect scenario for making a mistake that could haunt you.

Transmitting the submittals by email works in most cases. A very large structural steel submittal might exceed the standard 10 Mb limit for attachments. In this case you will need an FTP site or a shared folder in Dropbox, Evernote, or Google Drive. Free versions of these last three will work fine if you clean up regularly after a submittal has been distributed.
 
Marking up the submittal can be done with a number of programs. On the Mac platform, 'Preview' has adequate tools. Evernote's 'Skitch' works well in both the Mac and PC worlds. You could use Adobe's Reader XI which now seems to have everything you need, including the ability to create custom stamps!

When you return the submittals, often the traditional review stamp is a stumbling block. We have combined the stamp with our 'Submittal Transmittal Form' to take care of that.

The last piece of the process is the log. A spreadsheet works the best because it can take any size that is needed. It rarely needs to be printed, so fitting it to a paper size isn't necessary. Print it with a plotter if it ever becomes necessary, otherwise just review the file. Over several projects you will develop a 'master log' that contains all the spec sections that normally have a submittal requirement. Copy the log from job to job and erase all the specific content leaving the spec sections as a kind of checklist of what needs to be submitted. You will find that additional rows have to be entered on every job, sometimes to accommodate a new spec section and other times to accommodate the second or third submission of the same submittal.
It goes without saying, but I will say it, SAMPLES don't work at all well using this Paperless Submittal process. 

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TED JOHANSON link
5/6/2014 12:32:48 am

RICK,
THANKS FOR THE SAMPLES. THOUGHT OF YOU AND ARCHITEKWIKI AND THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE A SAMPLE LOG THAT I COULD USE. AND BINGO YOU DID.
HOPE ALL IS WELL. CBL HAS BEEN A PAIN BUT FINALLY WORKE OUT ALL THE FRIGGEN CADD STANDARDS THEY WANTED.
TAKE CARE, TED

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Rick Wolnitzek
5/7/2014 12:11:57 am

Glad the log works for you. Sorry the engineers are being difficult.

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