Mechanical coordination fails on paper long before it fails on site
A mechanical package is the most spatially congested scope on most projects. Ductwork, chilled and hot water piping, sanitary and vent, sprinkler, cable tray and structure all compete for the same ceiling void — and the mechanical trade is usually the largest and least flexible element in it. When shop drawings are produced without full multi-trade coordination, the conflict does not disappear. It moves to the field, where it costs far more to resolve.
The failure points are consistent. Duct routed through a beam that was never modelled. A sleeve missed before the slab pour. Hanger locations that clash with sprinkler mains. Service clearances around an air handler that exist on the drawing but not in the room. A chilled water main that cannot physically be installed in the sequence the programme assumes. Each one becomes an RFI, a change order, or a crew standing idle while somebody re-routes.
Most contractors know this. The constraint is capacity. Detailing headcount is hard to hire and expensive to carry through the troughs between projects, and when three packages land in the same month, coordination gets compressed exactly when it most needs time.
Our mechanical detailing team exists to absorb that peak. We model to fabrication level, coordinate against every other trade, and raise an RFI the moment a discrepancy surfaces — because conflicts between the engineer’s drawings and the architect’s set only reveal themselves once the model is being built. You get drawings your shop and your field crews can work from directly, either as an extension of your in-house detailers or as the full detailing scope.
3-Stage
48 Hrs
