For Architects & Design QA Managers

Find it before the set leaves your office.

The consultant sheets came back the night before issue. Every conflict caught at your desk is a redline. The same conflict caught in the field is an RFI with a clock on it, answered on a schedule you don’t control. Flikt runs the cross-discipline check across all 16 disciplines in hours — before you issue for permit, for bid, or for construction. The same pass your QA/QC does, on every sheet, every revision. Most firms include the review in the fee.

Every consultant works in their own model, on their own schedule. Structural revises, MEP doesn’t get the memo, and the clash ships in the set with your title block on it — and the first person to hear about it is the GC, mid-RFI.

The reality

What you’re up against

Three things every design QA lead hears once the set is in the field.

The pattern never changes: a coordination miss you could have caught at 90% CDs becomes an RFI — answered on someone else’s clock — after issue.
“We caught it in the field, not in the set.”

Consultants revise on their own clocks; the last-minute structural change never makes it into the MEP backgrounds.

“QA is the first thing cut when the deadline moves.”

Manual cross-discipline checks don’t fit a compressed CD schedule. Something always ships unchecked.

“The RFI has our title block on it.”

When a discipline conflict reaches the GC, it’s your document and your problem to answer — regardless of which consultant drifted.

The numbers
796
RFIs on the average project
8 hrs
of design time to log, review and answer one
Same day
what a full-set review takes us
Every
finding cites its sheet and location

Sources: Navigant Construction Forum, Impact & Control of RFIs on Construction Projects (2013).

The fix

Here’s what changes

1

Same-day review of the 2D set

Run it after consultants upload, before you issue. All 16 disciplines cross-referenced while there’s still time to fix quietly.

2

Cross-discipline conflict matrix, cited

Every finding names the sheet, the discipline pair, and the conflict. A punch list for your team, not a black box.

3

Resolved-findings audit trail

A record of what was caught and fixed pre-issue — the artifact you want when someone asks how the set was checked.

What we review

Every discipline, one pass

ArchitecturalStructuralMechanicalElectricalPlumbingFire ProtectionFire AlarmLow-VoltageTelecomCivilLandscapeInteriorsFood ServiceSignageZoningSpecifications

Each of these is read against every other one — that cross-reference is where the conflicts live. See the finding types that come back, with real examples from the published reports, or read where this is the wrong tool for the job.

Issue cleaner documents.

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Free field guide

The pre-IFC coordination checklist

50 checks before you issue for construction, ordered by what actually goes wrong — built from 1,516 findings across 34 real plan sets. Comes as an assignable tracker (Excel) with status, owner and due date, plus a printable PDF. No call, no card.

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