What is an RFI, and when does the field send one?
An RFI, or Request For Information, is a documented question from the field to the architect or owner about a constructability or specification issue that the drawings do not clearly answer.
Start free→An RFI is a formal, written question from the field to the architect or owner when the drawings, specs, or conditions on site do not clearly say how to build something. Instead of guessing, the field documents the question and waits for a documented answer. The RFI and its response become part of the project record.
RFIs protect the contractor and keep the project moving correctly. A documented question and answer means nobody built off a guess, and if a spec issue later causes a change or delay, the RFI is the paper trail that shows where the ambiguity was and when it was raised. An unanswered or undocumented question is how rework and disputes start.
Scaftra captures RFIs as threaded, company and project-scoped records with internal and public visibility, so a field question and its documented answer live on the project. RFIs are part of Scaftra's field-records layer, which is built for RFIs, submittals, and daily logs today; the broader propagation from a field record into schedule and billing is still being wired, so an RFI that drives a change is captured but not yet auto-linked downstream.
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