Week 9 Lab: Sign-Off Risk, by Phase

An analytical lab — estimate certificate-of-occupancy risk-by-phase for a fictional build, justified against real punch-list categories

3 May 2027

Pairs. You’re given a fictional building at “98% complete” with a punch list of outstanding items across the categories week 9’s lecture and its linked Procore reference describe (life-safety, code-compliance, cosmetic). The job is to estimate, per category, how much occupancy risk remains — not a single blended percentage, since the lecture’s whole point is that a building department doesn’t grade on a slope.

Before the lab#

Read week 9’s lecture and the Procore reference it links before the lab — this lab is graded on using their categories, not inventing your own.

In the lab#

As a pair, sort the supplied punch list into the real categories, estimate which items block occupancy outright versus which are cosmetic, and identify the single highest-risk open item — the one that, if unresolved, keeps the certificate from being issued regardless of how finished everything else is.

Submitting#

The sorted punch list, the risk estimate per category, and the named highest-risk item, from the pair. Due Friday 7 May, 5pm.

Pairs of two.