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Planning & controls

Classify the delivery route for a work package

Pick the work type, classify the delivery and approval route it needs to follow, confirm the route with the team, then carry it into an authority submission.

4 steps7 minProject / construction management firmDesign / engineering practiceDeveloper / client

How it works, step by step

4 steps across the platform - what you do at each one, and why it matters.

1

Describe the work type

Route Classifier

Set out what the work package actually is: its scope, its use, its scale and where it sits, the details the routing depends on.

Why: The route is only as accurate as the description behind it. A vague answer here produces a route classification nobody can actually rely on later.

InWork packageOutWork profile
2

Classify the delivery route

Route Classifier

Run the work profile through the route classifier to get the delivery and approval path it needs to follow, along with the reviews and sign-offs that path requires.

Why: Getting the route wrong is not a paperwork slip, it means budgeting and programming for the wrong sequence of approvals entirely. Classifying it early is what lets the rest of the plan be built on solid ground.

InWork profileOutClassified route
3

Confirm the route with the team

Route Classifier

Walk the classified route past whoever owns programme and design sign-off, and lock it in as the route the package will actually follow.

Why: A route nobody has agreed to is still just a suggestion. Confirming it turns the classification into the plan the rest of the team can commit dates and fees against.

InClassified routeOutConfirmed route
4

Carry the route into the submission

Authority Submissions

Start the authority submission the classified route requires, with the route and its reasoning already attached so the submission opens on the right track.

Why: Reclassifying the route at the submission stage, after the design has already moved on, is expensive rework. Carrying the confirmed route straight through is what keeps the two records in step.

InConfirmed routeOutAuthority submission started
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