United States The document matters as much as the drawing.

Imperial throughout.

Not converted, not mixed. A metric dimension on a US submittal is an immediate signal that the set came from somewhere that does not work here.

AWI grade obligations understood as cost, not description.

Grade governs substrate, edge banding, joint quality and the permitted gaps between doors and their frames. It also sets which surfaces count as exposed, semi-exposed and concealed, and those carry different obligations on the same item.

Division 06 40 00 scope boundaries established.

What sits in architectural woodwork and what sits in an adjacent section is a live question on almost every package, and answering it wrong is how a bid is won at a loss.

Submittals assembled for a reviewer.

Indexed, specification-referenced, with deviations declared rather than drawn. The package is a commercial document that happens to contain drawings.

AWI and AWS. The Architectural Woodwork Standards govern most commercial and institutional woodwork. Grade is named in the specification and the drawing has to support it.

Quality certification programmes. Where a specification requires a quality programme, the obligations sit with the fabricator and the certifying body. Those obligations carry cost and lead time, and they belong in the estimate.

Fire, seismic and performance requirements where the project imposes them, which changes substrate and assembly selection.

We detail to the standard your project names and report what it requires. We are not a certifying authority and we do not issue compliance certification.

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The specification read as description.

Grade and material obligations treated as background, then found at submittal review.

Scope boundary assumed.

Casework partly in equipment sections on healthcare and laboratory work, priced once or not at all.

Fabrication detail on a submittal.

Generating comments on decisions the architect never owned, and adding a round nobody budgeted.

Mixed units.

Rare, immediately visible, and it costs credibility before the drawing is even read.