Pre-screen submittals for code compliance
Reduce review cycles and maintain consistent standards across your team. Helonic does the first pass against IBC, NFPA, ADA, and energy code so your reviewers can focus on judgment calls.
What slows down plan reviewers
The three pressures that make consistent, thorough plan review hard to sustain at scale.
High Volume
Growing submittal backlogs with limited staff create pressure to review faster without sacrificing thoroughness.
Code Complexity
Overlapping IBC, NFPA, ADA, and local amendments make comprehensive compliance checking extremely demanding.
Consistency
Different reviewers catch different things, leading to inconsistent feedback and re-review cycles.
How Helonic helps
Five ways AI pre-screening changes how plan review departments handle volume and complexity.
Code compliance pre-check
Automatically screen submittals against IBC, NFPA, ADA, and energy code requirements before a human reviewer opens the drawings. Flag the most likely non-compliance areas for focused review.
Review consistency
Apply the same comprehensive checklist to every submittal regardless of which reviewer handles it. Eliminate the variability between senior and junior reviewers.
Priority flagging
Categorize issues by severity, life safety items surface first, followed by structural concerns, then general compliance. Reviewers can focus their time on the issues that matter most.
Automated checklists
Generate discipline-specific review checklists based on the project type and applicable codes. Track completion and ensure nothing is overlooked during the review process.
Review documentation
Maintain a complete audit trail of what was reviewed, what was flagged, and what was approved. Simplify re-review cycles by showing exactly what changed between submissions.
Common issues we catch
The recurring code and compliance gaps our pre-screen surfaces on plan review submittals.
Life Safety & Fire
- Fire/life safety system gaps and omissions
- Egress width and travel distance violations
- Fire-rated assembly discontinuities
- Missing fire alarm and detection coverage
General Compliance
- ADA accessibility non-compliance
- Structural design concerns
- MEP code requirement gaps
- Energy code and insulation issues
ROI for plan reviewers
What plan review departments see when AI handles the first compliance pass.
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