AISC 360 steel and connection review

Steel sets carry their logic in schedules and connection details, with connection design often delegated. PlanFlag checks the set provides what the next engineer needs.

What PlanFlag checks against AISC 360

• Member schedules vs. plans: beam and column schedules reconciled against framing-plan callouts at each gridline.
• Connection detailing: presence and consistency of connection details across the set.
• Delegated design, at the set level: delegated connection design is standard; PlanFlag checks the set provides the design criteria and loads the delegated engineer needs somewhere in the documents, rather than flagging an individual detail for not repeating them.
• Steel grade and edition: specified steel grade and the cited AISC edition are consistent.

Related discipline: Structural plan review.

One review, one price

Every review is the full review: each sheet read, then the set checked against itself, with comments ranked and kept to about the size of a reviewer's own markup. $1 a sheet, $50 minimum. A hold is placed on your card before the review runs and charged when it finishes; if the review fails, the hold is released.

Where the engineer stays in control

PlanFlag surfaces candidate findings for a licensed professional to evaluate. It does not perform engineering, and it does not seal, stamp, or approve anything. The engineer of record remains solely responsible for the design, and the reviewing professional remains responsible for every decision to act, or not act, on a finding. A clean or short report is not evidence that a set is complete or compliant; it describes only what was assessed.

The goal is the disciplined review a good reviewer already does: "here is what should be on this sheet, let me find it, and let me investigate the unexpected," run consistently and fast, with receipts.

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