Drawings are always submitted for approval before fabrication. When any changes are given by the structural engineer or the architect, after implementing the changes, the drawings must be submitted again for 2nd approval so that the structural engineer & the architect will review & approve the drawings.
In some cases, the architect & the structural engineer skip their duty of reviewing & question the detailer whether the detailer has implemented all the changes. Refer below image for an example.
In such cases answering with a “yes” might cause trouble to the detailer & the corresponding concern in he future.
Rather than answering the question, the detailer can pose a question to the question asked like “Have the Structural Engineer and Architect approved?”.
By such way, the detailer has attended to the structural engineer or the architect and also the duty to review the drawings has also been assigned once again to him.
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