Drawings that belong to the owner
Your drawings and models may belong to the building owner or be limited by contract. Whether they can be included depends on those contracts, so check with your own counsel. Owner files can be excluded completely.
Your pricing history
Your estimates reveal how you price jobs. If you would rather keep that close, leave the estimating folders out. Restricted projects, such as secure facilities, can be excluded the same way.
The same rules apply
It all starts under NDA. Nothing is sent until you approve a sample, and it costs you nothing.
What construction and architecture firms ask
Under our contracts, the client owns the drawings. Are we excluded?
Not necessarily. The focus is often on field records like RFIs and site logs. What your contracts allow is a question for your counsel.
What happens to subcontractor names?
Owners, subs, suppliers and project addresses all become placeholders.
Is one finished project enough to start?
Yes. A narrow first scope, such as projects closed a few years ago, is a common starting point.
Records to look at
Where the valuable history lives
Not every one is required. A single well kept system can be enough to start.
Submittals and RFIs
How questions from the field are resolved between trades, builders and designers.
Change order records
What changed on a project, why it changed and how it was resolved.
Bids and takeoffs
How work gets priced and weighed across subcontractors.
Daily reports and punch lists
What went on at the site and what still needed fixing.
Why it counts
What makes it useful to labs
Projects seldom go exactly to plan, and the record of how a team adjusts is just what models are missing. Punch lists, RFIs and change orders show decisions made with the schedule and budget tight. That kind of history hardly ever appears in public text.
How it runs
Your next steps
Answer four questions for an estimate. A License Your Data specialist phones within minutes to book a 15-minute call. If you continue, License Your Data prepares a de-identified copy, you approve a sample, and buyers license the copy.