Keep site questions and design responses together.

How to build your construction rfi tracker

1. 1

   Describe the job

   Keep site questions, drawing revisions and design responses in one RFI register.

2. 2

   Review the first version

   Choose how the site engineer records the question and how the responsible designer reviews the next step.

3. 3

   Refine the views

   Ask First to adjust the fields and views for the people who will use the app.

4. 4

   Test before sharing

   Walk through the process with a sample record and check who owns the next action.

What to include in your construction rfi tracker

• Keep the question in context

  Keep question, drawing reference, requested answer date, responding owner, response and affected task together so the next person can understand the request or record.

• When the next step needs a decision

  A site question has an informal answer that is not approved by the responsible designer. Keep the RFI open and identify the blocked task until an accepted response is recorded.

• Keep affected task visible

  Record the accepted response and the site task it allows to move forward.

• Choose what each person needs

  Give the site engineer a working view and the responsible designer a review view. Keep question and drawing reference attached to the decision as the work moves between them.