Pre-Permit Review for Construction Managers

Why Construction Managers Need Pre-Permit Review

Construction Managers are accountable for overseeing the full design and construction process, including QA/QC across every trade and discipline. One thing that keeps coming up for this role is not having a consistent, firm wide way to catch coordination and code issues before they turn into expensive field problems.

Pre-Permit Review is meant to fix that. It gets applied before a drawing set goes to the jurisdiction for permit, with a specific goal: catch code and coordination issues that would otherwise turn into plan check comments and correction cycles.

What Structured AI Checks for Construction Managers

For construction managers running pre-permit review, Structured AI uses QA/QC Compliance Checks, run against the full code and compliance library before submittal. Every finding comes back with the exact page, location, issue, and fix. Findings are scoped to what this role is actually on the hook for, not a generic error list, but issues organized around overseeing the full design and construction process, including QA/QC across every trade and discipline.

Structured AI's check library spans every discipline, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and civil, giving a construction manager one consistent standard applied across every trade rather than review quality that varies by who's checking which set.

Where This Fits in Your Workflow

Pre-Permit Review for construction managers usually happens before a drawing set goes to the jurisdiction for permit. Structured AI works on .pdf, .dwg, .rvt, and .ifc files, and for Revit modeled projects, the Revit Add-In runs the same checks directly against live geometry with element level results, no export needed. Findings can be exported and assigned by trade or discipline, so the review step slots into the existing document workflow instead of adding a new one.

FAQ

How is pre-permit review different from a general plan check? Pre-Permit Review is scoped to what actually matters at this stage of the project and for this role: catch code and coordination issues that would otherwise turn into plan check comments and correction cycles. It uses Structured AI's deterministic checks rather than a confidence-scored, probabilistic flag.

Do construction managers need special training to use this? No. Upload the relevant drawings and specifications, or connect the Revit model directly, and findings come back organized the way construction managers already review work. Teams can also build Custom Checks in plain English without writing any code.

Can findings be shared with the rest of the project team? Yes. Every finding links back to the exact sheet and location, and can be exported and assigned by trade or discipline for team wide visibility and follow up.