Design & documentation · Nationwide
Construction-Phase Design Support
Questions and changes during construction need a controlled path back to the responsible design team. True North coordinates technical information, revisions and project records while preserving the contractor’s field responsibilities.
For owners, project teams and delivery partners nationwide. The written scope identifies True North’s work, the responsible professionals and any separately contracted construction.
- Technical questions and submittals
- Revisions and field observations
- Occupied buildings and phased work
What the scope can include
Select the work and handoff your project needs. The agreement identifies the included deliverables and responsibilities.
Technical questions and submittals
Organize requests for information, product submissions, shop-drawing interfaces and substitutions. Route technical decisions to the assigned professional and record the version and response that construction may rely on.
Revisions and field observations
Coordinate design changes, site observation records and conflicts between drawings and field conditions. Distinguish documented observations from continuous inspection or a guarantee of concealed work.
Occupied buildings and phased work
Track temporary arrangements, work areas, access, owner operations and required approvals. Connect phasing decisions with fire/life-safety, utilities and contractor planning rather than treating a schedule as technical authorization.
Prepare for the assignment
You can start with incomplete records. Tell us what is available and what still needs to be established.
Information to bring
Issued drawings, approved permits, construction schedule, questions and submittals, dated field information and the authority to approve changes.
The agreed handoff
A controlled response/change register, coordinated revised documents and agreed observation or phase-handoff records.
Decisions, fees and timing
Scope and dependencies determine the proposal. No universal price or approval date is assumed.
Confirm the basis and responsibility
Review the available records, intended endpoint and authority to use the information. Assign missing inputs, technical decisions and the parties who can authorize changes.
Coordinate and review the work
Prepare the included documents from agreed inputs, resolve interfaces with responsible specialists and track revisions. Record external decisions and conditions separately from work prepared for review.
Account for project-specific dependencies
Question volume, design changes, field access, occupied operations, response dependencies and additional authority review.
Deliver the defined milestone
Provide the controlling documents and remaining-action record. Identify what is accepted, what still requires a decision and what belongs to a separately contracted next stage.
Commercial records and document control
Keep requests, technical review, commercial authorization and issued documents linked by date and version. Existing RFI, submittal, substitution and construction-change coordination remains the technical response path.
Change-order review
Collect the proposed scope, reason, drawing references, quantities, price and schedule effects, and supporting contractor information. The agreed review can reconcile the proposal with prior instructions and flag scope gaps or technical dependencies for the owner and responsible designer. Record who can approve cost and time changes; an RFI response or draft change log is not a signed change order.
Payment-application support
Organize the contractor’s schedule of values, reported progress, approved changes, prior payments and agreed supporting records. Identify inconsistencies and route questions to the contractually responsible reviewer. Document support does not independently certify concealed work, establish payment entitlement or replace legal and contractual decisions; the agreed role and approval trail must remain explicit.
Construction-document control
Maintain a drawing and submittal register with revision, purpose of issue, reviewer, disposition and authorized distribution. Connect each approved change to affected sheets and permits, and distinguish superseded records from the documents available for current work. Contractor field supervision and construction methods remain with the responsible contractor.
Before you begin
Common questions
Can a contractor’s field change be added to drawings afterward?
Document it promptly and obtain the responsible professional’s review and applicable authorization. Recording a change does not automatically accept its design or permitting status.
Does this service include construction supervision?
Only specifically contracted services are included. Contractor supervision, means and methods, safety and continuous inspection are not implied by document coordination.
Your next step
A project in mind?
Let’s give it direction.
Start with what you know. We’ll help define the path ahead.