Independent Plan Review. On the Owner’s Side.
AI-driven pre-construction conflict detection gives owner’s reps an objective coordination check — without becoming the bad guy with the design team.
You sell cost certainty. The biggest threat to it is the coordination error nobody catches until the trades show up. Your job is to see that risk before the owner does — and to have a defensible answer when a change order comes across your desk.
What you’re up against
But the design and construction teams know what was missed before you do. By the time the change order lands on your desk, the choreography is already in motion. You need to be ahead of that — not chasing it.
Industry research puts roughly half of all rework on coordination and data failures, and 40–50% of coordination-driven change orders are catchable in pre-construction review. The leverage is enormous. The question is whether you have a tool that scales to every project in your portfolio.
BIM coordination workflows live with the design team. As the owner’s rep, you need a check that runs on the documents the design team actually issues — the 2D PDF set — on your schedule, not theirs.
Here’s what changes
Independent third-party review you commission directly.
Findings go to you first. You decide who sees them, when, and in what order. That’s the difference between being an agent of the owner and being a courier between the design and construction teams.
2D PDF based — works on any project, any delivery method.
Design-build, design-bid-build, CM-at-risk. BIM-mature or not. The review runs on the documents that actually exist. No model coordination meeting, no IFC-only workflow.
Severity-rated findings: a specific punch list for the design team.
Replace “you missed something” with a Critical/High/Medium/Low list referencing the sheets and the conflicts. The design team can verify, resolve, and re-issue. You document the conversation. The owner sees a coordinated set.
The numbers
Catenda & United-BIM
Autodesk & FMI 2022
Autodesk & FMI 2022
Catenda benchmark
What we review
Owner’s reps who catch coordination issues pre-construction routinely save the owner multiples of their fee on a single project. The math is simple. The discipline is in running the check every time.
Be ahead of the change order.
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