Construction & Engineering Document Control
Legal and engineering teams used Docwize to bring order to more than 50,000 engineering drawings, transmittals, and approval records — transforming a fragmented project archive into a defensible chronology of revisions, approvals, and construction events.
Lifecycle analysis
50,000+ engineering drawings analysed
The full project drawing register was ingested, structured, and made analytically accessible within the platform.
Drawings linked to transmittals and approvals
Each drawing was connected to its associated transmittals, review comments, and approval records, enabling end-to-end traceability.
Approval timing mapped against construction
Overlaying approval dates with construction milestones revealed sequencing patterns material to the dispute.
Structured chronology for dispute proceedings
The analysis produced a defensible, document-backed sequence of events to support legal and expert teams.
A major construction dispute required legal and engineering teams to reconstruct the full design history of a large infrastructure project. The underlying records — engineering drawings, transmittals, review comments, and approval documents — were fragmented across multiple sources and difficult to analyse at scale. Establishing a credible sequence of events required more than search: it required structured linkage across the entire project record.
Docwize ingested the full project document set and extracted metadata and revision history from each record. Drawings were linked to their transmittals, review comments, and approval records. Approval timing was then overlaid against construction milestones to identify where the sequence of events diverged from expected practice.
Certain drawing packages remained in review significantly longer than expected, creating identifiable bottlenecks in the approval chain that could be traced through the document record.
Major modifications between revision cycles were identified and placed in context — allowing the team to assess when changes were introduced and what approvals accompanied them.
In several instances, drawings appear to have been approved only after related construction work had already progressed — a pattern that can materially affect delay analysis and dispute strategy.
Docwize enabled the team to reconstruct the sequence of design decisions across a large, complex project record with a level of structure and traceability that manual review alone could not have produced at pace. The resulting chronology gave legal and engineering teams a shared, document-backed basis for analysing delay, assessing liability, and preparing for dispute proceedings.
Docwize helps legal, engineering, and investigation teams bring structure to complex document sets — from project archives to multi-system data exports. Get in touch to discuss your matter.