08/20/2026
Fourteen trades on a job. Maybe three where your QC lead has done the work personally.
That’s not a staffing problem. Most quality programs weren’t built to cover that gap, and no one gets hired with hands-on experience across every scope a GC touches.
So the QC lead walks the electrical rough-in with a checklist and a set of drawings. They know what to look for on paper. The box gets checked and the cover goes on.
The problem shows up two weeks later, or at the final, or in a punchlist that traces back to a submittal requirement nobody caught because the spec language and the manufacturer’s installation detail diverged in a way that only reads wrong if you’ve run that scope before.
That’s where the exposure lives. Not in negligence. In the width of the gap between the scope and the person reviewing it.
