Outcome
Hold consultants to the brief
Nobody else is checking your consultants' work.
On a contracted job the builder polices the documentation, because the builder pays for the gaps. When you are the Principal and the builder, that check disappears. Your consultants issue, your team builds, and a coordination gap between structure and services is found by a foreman with a drawing in his hand.
CIM reads each issue against your brief and against the other disciplines on the job - drawings against specifications, services against structure, this revision against the last - and returns what is missing or in conflict, cited to the source page.
That gives you a documented position with the consultant while their next fee claim is still open, and a design correction made on screen instead of an instruction issued on site.
Before CIM
- Coordination gaps are found by the trades, on site.
- The consultant's issue goes out unchecked against your brief.
- The fee conversation happens with no record behind it.
With CIM
- Cross-discipline conflicts flagged on every issue, cited to the page.
- The brief checked against what the consultant actually drew.
- A dated record of which obligations the design met.