- Feasibility / programming — defining what/where/how-big/roughly-how-much; locks 60–80% of cost.
- Preconstruction (precon) — detailed budgeting, VE, scheduling, permitting strategy before building.
- SD / DD / CDs — Schematic Design → Design Development → Construction Documents (increasingly detailed drawings).
- RFI (Request for Information) — formal question from builder to designer to clarify drawings.
- Submittal — product data/shop drawings submitted for approval before installation.
- Punch list — the final list of items to fix/complete before the job is accepted.
- As-builts — drawings updated to reflect what was actually built.
- Commissioning — testing/verifying building systems work as designed.
- CO (Certificate of Occupancy) — city approval that a building can legally be occupied. TCO = temporary CO.
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