Inspection Coordination for Construction

Inspections fail for two reasons, and only one of them is bad work. The other is sequence: a trade that has not finished, a prior inspection that was never closed, a revision that never made it to the field set, or a call placed before the condition being inspected actually existed. The second category is entirely preventable, and it is where most lost days come from.

We treat inspections as scheduled hold points rather than events at the end of a phase. Each one has a defined list of what must be complete, who is responsible for calling it, what documentation has to be on site, and what the recovery looks like if the result is a correction. Trades are sequenced so the work is genuinely ready — not almost ready — on the day the inspection is requested.

Closeout is the same discipline applied at the end, where it is most often neglected. Final inspections, outstanding corrections, as-built documentation, and the certificate of occupancy each depend on someone having tracked an obligation created months earlier. A job that has been inspected well throughout closes out quickly; a job that has not spends its last month proving things it should already have on file.

Inspection coordination is part of construction management and project management, and it is inseparable from permitting. We coordinate with the authorities having jurisdiction and their inspectors; we do not perform code inspections ourselves.