Abstract—Portion of the project delay coming from construction materials submittal and shop drawing approval process presents that must be clearly managed, as problems during submittal review can lead to incorrect product installations, and other costly mistakes. So there is a need to establish a material submittal and approval performance index which able to determine and clear the progress of consultant, contractors, and owners from the first step of submittal (input) to the last step of the process either accept or reject (output). The objective of this paper is to identify and provide the proper material submittal approval performance index (SAPI) to follow the progress of the project and been able to allocate the responsibility of contractor, consultant and owner to finish the process according to the project specification.

Index Terms—submittals, approval, performance, schedule, index.

Cite: Abdulrahman Alsinaidi, "Submittal-Approval Processes: Scheduling and Submittals-Approval Performance Index (SAPI)," Journal of Advanced Management Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 326-328, September 2013. doi: 10.12720/joams.1.3.326-328