Inspection & test plans, extracted from your specs

The hidden cost of an incomplete ITP

Inspection and test plans get less attention than submittal logs, but the failure mode is worse. A missed submittal might trigger an RFI; a missed inspection can mean rework, exposed systems, code violations, or—in the worst case—a deliverable that simply can't be verified after the fact. Most teams build their ITPs by skimming specs for "test" and "inspect" keywords, which catches the obvious items and misses the rest.

Anyset reads the spec the way a senior QC engineer reads it—looking for what has to be witnessed, what has to be documented, and what has to be certified. The result is a complete ITP organized by spec section, with every test traceable to the requirement that drives it, ready to share with your QC subs and your owner's representative.

QA/QC as a planning activity, not a reaction

When your inspection plan is built from the specs on day one, your QC schedule lines up with the construction schedule, your subs know what's expected of them, and your engineers spend their time witnessing tests rather than reading specs. That's the difference between a QC program that documents compliance and one that produces it.

What Anyset extracts into the ITP

The ITP covers everything that has to be witnessed, tested, certified, or documented during construction—organized by spec section, trade, and construction phase. That includes mockups and pre-installation conferences in division 01, factory and field testing across divisions 03 through 33, commissioning sequences in division 23 and 26, fire and life safety tests in divisions 21 and 28, and the long tail of code-required and AHJ-required inspections that typically live in narrative paragraphs rather than dedicated submittal lists.

For each item, Anyset captures the trigger (when the test happens), the witness requirement (who has to be present), the documentation requirement (what report or certificate is generated), the acceptance criteria (what passes), and the source citation (which paragraph drives the requirement). That structure is what makes the ITP usable in the field rather than a reference document nobody opens.

How the ITP plugs into the construction schedule

• Phase-aligned grouping. Inspections are grouped by construction phase (rough-in, in-wall, above-ceiling, final, commissioning), so superintendents see what has to happen before the next cover-up.
• Trade ownership. Every test traces to a responsible trade and, where applicable, a third-party agency (testing lab, special inspector, AHJ). When schedules slip, the impact on inspection coverage is visible in one view.
• Reactive triggers built in. Tests that depend on environmental conditions (concrete pours, fireproofing, glazing) carry their conditional logic forward, so the team is reminded to schedule the test, not just the activity.
• Exports to the tools you already use. The ITP exports cleanly to Procore Quality, Autodesk Build, and standard spreadsheet formats, so it lands wherever your QC program already runs.