Deadlines on both sides
The Engineer has response and determination deadlines too, and silence is a fact worth recording.
Solutions · By role
For PMC consultants: administer the contract and hold every party to the record
Consultants and the Engineer's team keep the official record: every letter with its clock, every RFI and submittal with its answer, every review code on every transmittal — and the other side's obligations tracked as closely as your own.
Sound familiar?
What gets in the way
Reviews without a trail
A review comment by email is hard to prove later.
The record, fragmented
RFIs, submittals and NCRs in separate logs never tell the full story.
How BuildCore helps
What you'd use, and what it does
Correspondence
- Letters threaded to their replies, with response SLAs
- Contractual significance and FIDIC sub-clause on each letter
- Minutes of meeting confirmed by the chair, with actions carried forward
Reviews
- Transmittal responses C1–C4, enforced
- Review workflows with due dates
- Revision compare exported to Excel
RFIs, submittals and NCRs
- RFIs with cost and time impact
- Submittal decisions locked once final
- NCRs the raiser can't close
Both sides' clocks
- Hindrance deadlines for the contractor and the client side
- Client responses by secure link
- An evidence pack with a timeline
In practice
An instruction, from issue to close
1
Issue
The instruction is registered and sent.
2
Track
The contractor's response clock starts.
3
Review
Submittals and drawings coded C1–C4.
4
Answer
RFIs answered officially, with impact recorded.
5
Meet
Minutes confirmed; actions assigned.
6
Close
Every thread closed on the record.
Questions
Common questions
Yes — each organisation works in its own tenant, and recipients without a login can acknowledge transmittals and respond to hindrances through secure links.
Yes. The Hindrance & EOT module sweeps deadlines on both sides daily, including responses and determinations due from the client side.
Minutes move from draft to published to confirmed, and only the chair confirms them.
Other roles
BuildCore for the rest of the team
- Project directors
- Planning managers
- Contracts & commercial
- Document controllers
- QA/QC managers
- HSE managers
- Procurement managers
Modules on this page: Communications · Document Management · Quality (QC) · Hindrance & EOT
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