Linear energy projects
Linear energy projects send revised drawings, procedures and reports to many parties across several sections of work, and someone has to show who received which revision. This page covers the part of document control Fidrel does, issuing documents to many recipients with a log, and the pipeline records it does not touch.
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Crews, inspectors, subcontractors and the owner’s staff are all working from different sections of the same job. A revised procedure goes out on a long distribution list, a few people drop off it, and nobody can say which crew is still on the old one.
The people who need a revision are often at a contractor’s office or in a pickup truck, and nobody can ask them to create an account for one procedure. If they cannot open it in a minute, they ask for a PDF by email and the control is gone.
A question about which revision a crew held can come long after the section was backfilled. An inbox search is not a record, and the person who sent the email may have left the company.
An issued transmittal is locked. It records the sender, the date, the purpose, the recipients and each document with its number and revision, and a later revision of a document does not change what was sent. It has a number, TR-001 and on, it appears in the project’s history, and it prints from the browser. For a project that will be asked months later which crew had which revision, that is the record you want: not a folder of emails, but one object that cannot be edited afterwards.
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Each recipient gets a personal link, valid for 30 days, to a page where they download the documents. The link is the credential, so it should go only to the person it was made for. A transmittal takes only shared or published revisions, so work in progress stays in the project, and an issue for construction takes only approved revisions. The log tells you who has opened the link, and you can chase the ones who have not.
Step 1
Set up folders by section of work and by document type, so one current revision of each drawing, procedure and report lives in one place and every earlier version is kept with its date.
Step 2
Choose New transmittal, select the documents and give it a purpose, from For information and For review to Issued for construction (IFC) and As-built record. Each document goes out at the revision that is current.
Step 3
Type one recipient per line as Name, Company, email, or use Add from the contact register and Add from the project. Recipients need no Fidrel account, and each gets a personal link by email.
Step 4
Issuing locks the transmittal with the date and the sender. The log then shows Sent, Opened or Not opened for every recipient, and recipients can confirm that they received the documents.
Step 5
When a newer revision goes out, Who holds which revision shows who still has the old one, and Tell the recipients their revisions were replaced emails them that a newer revision exists.
A daily report has fields for work in progress, people on site, equipment, deliveries, weather and delays, with photos taken from the phone browser. When the report describes a problem, Create NCR fills in the title, text, location and responsible person and links the two in both directions. The non-conformance report then has a category, a priority and a corrective action, and is followed from open to closed.
Fidrel has no pipe, weld or inspection-point tracking, so those records stay in the system you already use for them. There is no GIS, stationing or right-of-way record in Fidrel, and a document is not placed on a map or along a route. Fidrel makes no claim to meet any pipeline, gas, safety or environmental requirement or standard; it records what you and your team enter and send. A transmittal holds at most 50 emailed recipients and sending is limited per person per hour, so a larger distribution goes out as several transmittals.
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Talk to usNo. Fidrel is a construction platform for documents, schedules, quality records and costs. Welds, pipe and inspection-point records belong in the system you already use for them.
Issue it in a transmittal. The log shows when each recipient opened the link, recipients can confirm receipt, and Who holds which revision lists the latest revision each one was sent.
No. They get an email with a personal link, valid for 30 days, and download the documents from a page. They do not need a Fidrel account to do it.
Up to 50 emailed recipients, with a limit on how many a person can send per hour. For a longer distribution list, issue several transmittals, for example one per section of work.
No. Fidrel has no GIS or stationing, so a document is filed in a folder and not placed on a route. Name folders by section of work if that is how your crews look for things.
Fidrel makes no such claim. It keeps the documents, the transmittals and the records you enter, and which requirements apply to your work and how to meet them is for you and your contract to decide.
