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LRS ARCHITECTS - PROJECT MANUAL AND SPECIFICATIONS

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Substitution Request

3m 58s

Monica Jones of LRS Architects dives deep into a project manual and specifications.  She explains the different elements of the project manual, and shows examples of the various documents included.  She also explains how to produce a specification and the three different types.

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If it's accepted then it will be proposed as a contract change and then through the submittal process and then marked on the documents as open design documents. Substitutions during bidding will, same process, though I will note it does not have to go through the general contractor if it's a hard bid obviously general contractors aren't selected yet so some of those have substitution requests come directly from sub or manufacturers. The same review process is in the court of the architect and or owner client.

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