Design review
Design reviews come in layers. Inside the design organisation, disciplines check their own work and each other's — interdisciplinary checks, squad checks, model reviews. Above that sit the owner's reviews at stage gates, third-party or independent verification where the risk warrants it, and finally the authority's review during permitting. Each layer has a different question: is it right, is it what we asked for, is it compliant.
A review is only as good as its closure. The output of a real review is a comment log with dispositions — accepted, rejected with reason, action taken — and a design that demonstrably changed where it needed to. Reviews conducted as document circulation, where comments are collected but never adjudicated, produce the signature trail of quality assurance without the substance.
Timing is the other half. The influence of a review decays with the design's maturity: a comment at concept redirects the project, the same comment at issued-for-construction generates a change order. Review effort concentrated late in the process is not rigour; it is a record of what it was too late to fix.
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