Construction RFIs and approvals

An RFI is a question that stops work until somebody answers it: a detail missing from the plan, a material the owner has not confirmed, an approval the authority still owes. This page keeps every one of them in a single list with the answer deadline attached, so a question posed in an email thread does not quietly become a two-week delay that nobody can explain afterwards.

Every row names who owes the answer, and the choices are us, the architect, the owner or the authority. Impact records whether the open question threatens cost, schedule or both. Rows sort by deadline, so the sharpest one sits on top, and a deadline turns red only once it is genuinely past while the question is still open. Draft, open, answered and closed carry a written label, never color alone.

The path forward is deliberately short. An open question moves to answered when the reply arrives, and only a reviewed answer may be closed; jumping straight from open to closed is refused. Answered questions also surface in the project file under the decisions that are waiting, so the site manager sees them without opening this list. What remains is a documented chain from the question to the checked and released answer.