Find the scope gap before it finds you.
The four things that go wrong
Conflicting documents
Two documents in the same contract set say different things. Both are current. Neither defers to the other.
Unresolved responsibility
Equipment connections, controls wiring, and disconnects fall between divisions and nobody has claimed them.
Missing information
Devices without homerun tags, equipment without a circuit, or a panel schedule that references a sheet that was never issued.
Revision impact
An addendum changes something that other documents depended on, and those documents have not caught up.
How the comparison works
VoltDrop reads the electrical drawings together with the specification, schedules, addenda, and the mechanical and architectural information that touches electrical scope. Where two sources disagree, both are surfaced with their references — the software does not pick a winner.
Each finding carries a confidence signal and the documents it was derived from, so a reviewer can go straight to the pages in question instead of taking the finding on faith.
- Both sides of a conflict shown with sheet and section references
- Severity and confidence on every finding
- Findings convertible into review items or RFI drafts
- Revision comparison across addenda and reissued sheets
A worked example
On the sample project used in our walkthrough, disconnect responsibility for AHU-3 appears inconsistent between Mechanical Sheet M4.02 and Division 26. M4.02 indicates the disconnect is furnished with the unit; Specification 26 28 16 assigns furnishing and installation to Division 26.
That is a single sentence in two documents that were never meant to be read together. It is also, on a real job, a line item somebody eats.
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