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Tips to avoid RFIs
They’re time-consuming and frankly annoying, but requests for information (RFIs) are less likely if care is taken preparing thorough and well detailed documents the rst time.
BY TREVOR PRINGLE, ANZIA, BRANZ PRINCIPAL WRITER
PSST! Did you hear the one about the simple little house that had speci cation clauses for six cladding types? Unfortunately, none of them were the one actually used on the building. Drawings found wanting
One of the biggest bugbears when trying to get a building consent can be requests for information (RFIs). This is both for the building consent authority (BCA) sta
member writing them and the consent applicant such as the designer and builder receiving them.
Before any designers jump up and down, the BRANZ construction documentation survey of 53 sets of drawings found:
● 40% were lacking details
● 15% lacked clarity and were not job speci c ● 30% referred to other documents for details
● 50% had inconsistent scales
● 59% did not clearly identify materials and
nishes.
Reducing the risk of RFIs
The potential for an RFI should be reduced where consent documentation:
● includes a completed and signed
application form
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