Shop Drawings
Shop drawings are proposals for specified products, materials, equipment, or fabrication/installation drawings prepared by the contractor (or suppliers/subs) to illustrate portions of the work. Public project delivery procedures describe shop drawings as encompassing design drawings, calculations, fabrication and erection drawings, schedules, and related items requiring review before fabrication or installation.
- Where it applies
- Generally, not specific to New York
- When it comes up
- Construction administration; fabrication; installation
- Property types
- All
In practice
Operators should treat shop drawings as "design continuation" - coordination failures here are a frequent cause of field conflicts, rework, and latent defect risk.
Related terms
Construction Terminology
- Change Order
- Construction Management at Risk (CMAR / CM@Risk)
- Design-Bid-Build
- Design-Build
- Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP)
- Hard Costs
- Lump Sum
- Punch List
- Soft Costs
- Submittals
General information, not legal, tax or financial advice.