Interior build-outs
A tenant improvement job is short, the lease sets the deadline and three parties have to agree: the tenant, the landlord and the contractor. This page follows how to run such a job in Fidrel, with the weight on the part that costs the most days: getting the landlord’s approval on drawings and changes quickly, in a record everybody can point to.
30 days free · No long-term contract.
The landlord’s representative reviews drawings but does not work in the tenant’s or the contractor’s systems. Sheets are sent by email, comments return in different formats and nobody is sure which version was approved.
A build-out of a few months has no room for a week-long wait on a ceiling plan. One late approval pushes the finish date, and the move-in date does not move.
Small changes from both sides add up. Without a list of change orders with amounts and days, the total is a surprise at the end.
Roles decide what a person can do. A participant reads, downloads and uploads in the folders they are given, and a guest only reads and downloads. The decision to approve a document in a review is not available to guests or viewers, so the person who will approve for the landlord has to be invited as a participant, limited to the folders that hold the drawings under review. A locked folder stays hidden until you add the person to it after the invitation is accepted.
Reviews, RFIs & issues
A review has participants and a deadline, and it shows the time remaining, or that it is due today or overdue. Each participant approves or requests changes, and the review counts how many of the participants have approved. Every markup is numbered and has its own thread, so the landlord’s comments sit on the sheet they concern. The decision is recorded in Fidrel with a name and a date, which is the record you point to later.
Step 1
Build the estimate in groups and line items, submit it for review and approve it as the baseline estimate. It becomes the original budget and is locked, so later changes show up as change orders instead of silent edits.
Step 2
Choose Invite member, enter the email address and select Only chosen folders. Read the summary of what the person sees and does not see before pressing Send. The invitation is valid for seven days and can be withdrawn.
Step 3
Select the document or the whole folder, start a review and add the landlord’s representative as a participant, with a deadline. Each participant approves the document or requests changes, and everyone gets a notification and an email when it starts.
Step 4
Raise an RFI against the right revision of the drawing, and create a change order straight from it. The change order carries a proposed cost, an approved cost and a schedule impact in days, and an administrator approves it.
Step 5
Put the dates that the lease drives into the schedule as milestones and save a baseline. Variance in days shows on every end date, and an activity can be blocked by an open RFI or an open issue, which makes a waiting approval visible.
Keep each landlord-requested change and each contractor-raised change as its own change order, with a cost and a number of days. Linked to a budget item, it appears in cost tracking as an expected change until it is approved. The list shows what was asked, by whom and what it did to the budget and the schedule, so the final account has no surprises.
Fidrel does not handle the lease, the tenant improvement allowance or any payment from the landlord, and it does not manage permits. Approving a review is a decision recorded with a name and a date, not an e-signature. Fidrel cannot recall a drawing the landlord’s representative has already downloaded.
Your trial applies to your first own project and starts when that project is created. No card required. Afterwards, choose card or invoice to continue.
The project system of the future connects people, documents and decisions. Discover the thinking behind Fidrel.
Read more
On site, answers need to be close at hand. Fidrel displays DWG drawings in your mobile browser, within the project’s document structure.
Read more
When everyone can see the next step, moving the project forward becomes easier. Fidrel brings activities, dates and reported progress together in a shared Gantt view.
Read moreInterior build-outs
Anything else on your mind? We are happy to help.
Talk to usYes, if the landlord’s representative is on the project as a participant. They are added to a review, and they approve the document or request changes. A guest can read and download but cannot approve.
Yes. Invite the person with access to chosen folders only, and the summary shows what they will see, such as those folders, and what they will not see, such as the estimate and the finances.
A review is started on the latest revision of a document, and RFIs are linked to the revision of the drawing. Each upload of the same number is kept as a version with its date, so the approved sheet can be identified.
Yes. Log each as a change order with its type, cost and schedule impact, link it to a budget item and follow it from draft to closed. Only administrators approve.
No. Fidrel is for the build-out itself: documents, reviews, the schedule, RFIs, change orders and the budget. The lease, the allowance and payments stay outside it.
