The morning a bulletin lands
General and main contractors
A revised sheet reaches the site team late, or a change inside it is never seen, and the work is built from the old version.
- See the changes in a bulletin before the first site meeting
- Send each team only the changes that touch its work
- Keep one record of who saw what and what was decided
Before the rebar order goes out
Specialist subcontractors
You fabricate or install from a sheet that has quietly changed, and acting on a change without a record can cost you the right to claim.
- Check the sheets for your trade against the last issue
- Draft the question to the designer with the crops attached
- Keep the decision log if a claim follows
When the client asks what changed
Engineering consultancies and QS firms
You must show what changed, who reviewed it and what was decided, and the answer is spread across emails and marked-up PDFs.
- Give the client one change list with the crops
- Have an engineer confirm each impact before it is reported
- Share a read-only link with people who have no account
The Monday review of open changes
Project managers
Nobody can say which changes are still open, who owns them, or whether the designer was asked.
- See open changes by team
- Read a one-page brief for each revision
- Ask questions of the change list and get answers with change numbers