Drawings Check List

Project Name

Project Number

Project Stage

Package

Drawing Numbers

or as attached register

Status For Information For Pricing

Draft For Construction

Preliminary As Built

Detailed Design Other

Production Verification Reviewer Approver

Checker Checker

Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No

Have you been identified in the

Project Management Plan to
undertake the role?

Has your competency for this

task been agreed?
(if not, use your Stop Work
Authority now)

Notes:

1 Tick “Yes” if aspect has been checked or ‘N/A’ if the aspect is not applicable to the document.

2 Every aspect in the Checklist must have a tick.

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Producer Production
Checker

Aspect Yes N/A Yes N/A

1 Are hazard warning triangles and SHE boxes correctly transferred from
the Designer’s Risk Assessments and specific to the drawing?
2 Do the drawings comply with the Brief?
3 Do the drawings comply with the CAD standard and drawing templates?
4 Do the drawings comply with the BIM Execution Plan?
5 Do the drawings numbers and codification comply with the BIM
Execution Plan?
6 Are the drawing titles, title blocks, revisions, suitability codes, issue
status and scales correct?
7 Are the spellings correct?
8 If applicable, does the drawing have a north arrow and OS Grid Lines?
9 Has the drawing been produced in accordance with engineer’s
sketches?
10 Are the drawings well laid out in accordance with good engineering
practice?
11 Is the design intent reflected on the drawing and the solution conveyed
by the drawing appropriate?
12 Are all requirements for stage works that are implicit in the design
explicitly stated?
13 Have we provided information on component weights and centres of
gravity for pre-cast and modular elements?
14 Are drawing changes clouded and described?
15 If applicable, have you checked the bar bending schedules?
16 Have you interrogated key dimensions directly from the model?
17 Does the drawing have a relevant set of notes without repetition from
other drawings?
18 Have you undertaken checks against Utilities apparatus?
19 Have you undertaken clash detection within any three-dimensional
models as part of your check?
20 Have you cross referenced all other relevant drawings and
specifications?
21 Have you looked at the drawing as a whole rather than on the screen?
22 Have you checked layer management by isolating areas of drawing
content?
23 Have you checked all embedded X-Ref Links and updated these?
24 Does the drawing print or convert to pdf in the format intended?
25 Are check prints available?

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Producer Production
Checker

Aspect Yes N/A Yes N/A

26 Have you highlighted your Production Checking comments in an agreed
format and with clarity?
27 Has the design team dealt with all technical review comments including
from Client team?
28 Have you prepared evidence of your Production Check?
29 Are the drawings ready for next stage verification?
30 Have you seen anything during Production Check that should be raised
as an Integrated Observation?

Production
Checker
Comments

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Verification
Checker
(where required)

Aspect Yes N/A

1 Do you understand the level of checking?
2 Are you required to check the design drawings in detail?
3 Do you understand the Project Requirements?
4 Has the Design complied with the Requirements?
5 Do you agree with the designer’s methods?
6 Do you agree with the Designers assumptions?
7 Have you explored source information?
8 If applicable, is the topographic survey robust and has it been interpreted
correctly?
9 Have you checked that utilities information is complete and has been interpreted
and represented correctly?
10 Can you replicate the dimensions and levels on the drawings by calculation?
11 Have you interrogated key dimensions directly from the model?
12 Are there any stage works required to enable the design and are these clearly
shown on the drawings?
13 Have you checked the Design Risk Assessment / Hazard Log and SHE box?
14 Do you agree with the standards and specifications presented on the drawings in
the leader notes or in the Notes at the side of the drawing?
15 Have you undertaken clash detection within any three-dimensional models as part
of your check?
16 Do the drawings cover the entirety of the design?
17 Has anything been missed on the drawings?
18 If applicable, is there compliance with the contractor’s buildability requirements
and methods?
19 Have you prepared evidence of your Verification Check?
20 Are the drawings ready for next stage verification?
21 Have you seen anything during Verification Check that should be raised as an
Integrated Observation?

Verification
Checker
Comments

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Reviewer Approver

Aspect Yes N/A Yes N/A

1 Is there evidence of compliance against Project Requirements?
2 Is there evidence of Checking?
3 Has an appropriate level of independence been used during Verification
Checking if required?
4 Are the drawings complete and fully signed off up to the Review /
Approval stage?
5 Are there any progressive design and assurance issues to recognise?
6 Have we verified input data including information in the Pre-Construction
Information?
7 Have we managed the designer’s assumptions, and have we
communicated these clearly?
8 Do the drawings recognise the Contractor’s stated Construction
Methodology or potential methodologies identified in support of the
design and have these been stated clearly?
9 Do the drawings clearly communicate any temporary works requirements
/ stage works and is there a Temporary Works Schedule?
10 Do the drawings take account of the way in which the Contractor will
communicate information to the supply chains?
11 For multi-disciplinary projects, have you seen evidence of Design
Integration and Coordination?
12 Is the Design Risk Assessment / Hazard Log and SHE box in line with
good Safe by Design Practice?
13 Are specific risks and uncertainties around subsequent delivery identified
on the drawing and/or presented in a Project Risk Log?
14 Is the drawing correctly referenced on associated design certification?
15 Does the drawing include details taken from wider Arcadis best practise?
16 Does the engineering content on the drawing meet your expectations
based on comparative projects by Arcadis or our peers?
17 Has the design team dealt with all technical review comments including
from Client team?
18 Have you prepared evidence of your Review / Approval?
19 Are the drawings ready for next stage verification?
20 If you were the recipient of these drawings, would you accept them?
21 Have you identified exemplary work that should be communicated to
Communities of Practice?

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Reviewer Approver

Aspect Yes N/A Yes N/A

22 Have you seen anything during Review or Approval that should be raised
as an Integrated Observation?

Reviewer
Comments

Approver
Comments

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Certification
(This certification refers to the document numbers listed above)

I, as the Producer, have prepared and self-checked that the drawings are acceptable and of the required
standard.

Name Signature Date

I, as the Producer, have prepared and self-checked that the drawings are acceptable and of the required
standard.

Name Signature Date

I, as the Producer, have prepared and self-checked that the drawings are acceptable and of the required
standard.

Name Signature Date

I, as the Producer, have prepared and self-checked that the drawings are acceptable and of the required
standard.

Name Signature Date

I, as the Production Checker, have checked that the drawings are acceptable, of the required standard and
my comments have been satisfactorily acted upon.

Name Signature Date

(where required)
I, as the Verification Checker, have checked that the drawings are acceptable, of the required standard and
my comments have been satisfactorily acted upon.

Name Signature Date

I, as the Reviewer, have reviewed that the drawings are acceptable, of the required standard and my
comments have been satisfactorily acted upon.

Name Signature Date

I, as Approver, confirm that the drawings are acceptable and approved for issue.

Name Signature Date

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