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Why We No Longer ‘Stamp’ Shop Drawings At Leo A Daly 

11-15-2010 12:38 PM

Yes, Leo A Daly has retired this venerable old artifact of our industry—even though architects have traditionally ‘stamped’ shop drawings for generations. But bear with me here. Let’s step outside the traditional box for a moment to ask ourselves why architects ever stamped contractors’ submittals in the first place—and, more importantly, ask ourselves why, in the modern world, would we keep on doing it?

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Klaus M. Steinke
11-17-2010 03:04 PM

I think the salient point here is that submittals are in fact the contractor's work, not the Architects. As part of the contractors work, they also need to show enough of surrounding work by other trades to ensure proper coordination of the work, and the GC needs to coordinate that.
Many contractors do a good job at it, but I've also received submittals that were created in a vacuum, as if they were stand alone systems. Later, if a field conflict arose parties would point to the "approved" shop drawings, as if that absolved them of further coordination work. The language of the stamp itself was pretty much disregarded as so much legalese, irrelevant to the fact that the submittal had been "approved".
Submittals are a part of the contractors work - let them take full responsibility for it.