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BIM 360 Help: Submittals

Submittals are documents created for consumption by other companies.

Submittals are broken up into two groupings:

Items: Consist of a document or group of documents.

Packages: Consist of a group of Items.

Note: Items can only be added to a Package by a manager.

Learn the submittals workflow in a ten minute video course.

Submittals Workflow
Project administrators manage and coordinate responses to Submittals in their project team. Project administrators define
the Submittals Managers and Responsible Contractors for their project.

The following images walk through the Submittal workflow. Click a step to go to a page with more information about that
step. The colors in the image indicate the role/responsibility:

Participants
The participant roles are defined as follows:

Responsible Contractor

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The primary subcontractor responsible for submitting the required shop drawings, material data, samples, and product data
for approval.

Creating submittal item (if necessary).

Adding required material to submittal item for review.

Manager

Typically, the General Contractor. The Manager's primary abilities include:

Creating items and assigning them to the responsible contractor.

Assembling items into packages.
Assigning packages to the reviewer and co-reviewers.

* Managers can submit single items for review. In this case, a package is automatically created with the same name as the
item.

Reviewer

The primary reviewer (typically, the Architect) who is responsible for reviewing and approving the submitted materials. The
Reviewer's primary abilities include:

Reviewing the submittal.

Assigning co-reviewers and managing official responses.

Co-Reviewers

Engineers and consultants asked for review/feedback as part of the review process (usually by the Reviewer).

Distribution List

Various stakeholders to be informed (notice only) upon status changes.

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