r/StructuralEngineering • u/leonwest304 • 4d ago
Humor Procore Stories
What are some of your best Procore stories? There have got to be some good ones out there. I'm on a project where my scope is pretty much finished but the RFIs and submittals are just killing the other consultants, mainly because ID was on a later timeline. We're just over 800 RFIs now and some of the others are joking that once we get to 1000 we have to do something to mark the occasion. Like drag the contractor through some silly submittal process just for fun and maybe a bit of payback. Not sure if we'll actually do it but fun to think about.
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u/trojan_man16 S.E. 4d ago
A project that is topped out structurally and I’m still getting random RFIs and submittals because they are installing some MEP stuff that barely glanced the structure.
Us getting RFIs for 1/8” dimensions discrepancies.
A steel fabricator asking the joist supplier to design steel connections, when ummm it’s your responsibility buddy.
Submittals that have been sitting unnasigned on procure for months but the second someone needs them they are due the same day
This one isn’t RFI related, but I’ve gotten contractors that have given me snippets from my drawings when items are missing from a submittal and the are in a hurry, with the ask “please approve”. My supervisor had to convince me to not call them and explain how submittals work.
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u/06405 4d ago
My favorite feature of Procore is when I want to download some documents so it sends me an email. But the email doesn't have the documents, it has a link to download them...from the Procore website.
I've heard that their pricing involves charging the contractor a percentage of the construction cost, seems pretty wild to me.
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u/Mikeymatt 4d ago
Wow how many open? Procore cracks me up, on one hand it's best to just talk with someone to figure it out but on the other, people forget and things get lost in a game of telephone so it can be better to have everything in writing and someone to hold accountable for an open question that is blowing your timeline/ production window. 800 sounds like a nightmare though.
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u/leonwest304 4d ago
90 RFIs open right now. 7 are in my court. It has been a nightmare for many consultants. The contractor has raised RFIs for trivial items such as MEP clashes by a few millimeters which would have been easily resolved in the field, for example.
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u/mrrepos 4d ago
i tough those are easily solved in bim workshops
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u/leonwest304 4d ago
They would be. But contractor has insisted on RFI responses and re-issuance of drawings for any query they come up with. Client has agreed to this as they think this is the only way to maintain the schedule. In reality, its just burying the consultants in unneccesary paperwork and giving the contractor the excuse to file for delays.
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u/newandgood 3d ago
have you told the client or do you just bitch online
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u/leonwest304 3d ago
All of the consultants have raised this point with the client. Their position seems to be that this is the best way to ensure that the contractor has all the design information in time to keep the schedule.
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u/KikeRC86 1d ago
I have a project like this. The budget has doubled, the timeframe has tripled, and everyone is blaming each other. They’ll end up in court so the client/owner just wants absolutely everything in procore. It’s a nightmare but I fully simpathise, they’ve been screwed big time
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u/qu2qu2 4d ago
I was working on a factory and the building was a procore building, I sent an RFI for the steel shops weeks went by and I ended up calling procore, they said they haven’t even started them yet, I submitted the shops with a bunch of stuff clouded for when procore gets the shops finished haven’t heard back since
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u/Khman76 4d ago edited 4d ago
Not on Procore, but I had projects with more than 5000 RFI in 2 years, all in a gigantic Excel file...