CONTINUOUS DESIGN REVIEW
Automatically apply your design standards on every project.
Corerunway continuously compares specifications, drawings, revisions and submittals against your organization’s standards, including rule books and rules from individual experts — then flags issues, finds the evidence, generates reports and preserves expert decisions.
Your institutional standards & design manuals
Custom rules
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Project specs • drawings • revisions • submittals
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CORE RUNWAY
FLAG
Issues
FIND
Evidence
REPORT
Compliance
PRESERVE
Decisions
WHY THIS MATTERS
Your standards only work when they are applied consistently.
Large institutions require project teams to work against organization-specific design standards and obtain approval for deviations. The challenge is applying those requirements consistently as specifications, drawings and submittals change.
Standards must be applied project by project
Institutional standards have to be interpreted and applied to the specifications and drawings for each individual project.
Every deviation needs attention
Exceptions and conflicts must be identified, reviewed and approved by the appropriate owner team.
Every revision can change the answer
Revised specifications, drawings and submittals can introduce issues that were not present in the previous version.
Tested at project scale.
2,800-page specification × 1,000-page institutional rulebook → ~15 minutes
“This tool could significantly improve quality control and save millions of dollars by avoiding change orders for large projects”
Dr Joshua Lee, Professor of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University
Processing
Your rulebook should not be a static PDF.
Start with the standards you already have. As teams review projects and make decisions, Core Runway turns those inputs into a living organizational rulebook that can be reused on future work.
Apply what your team learns.
Each project becomes an opportunity to refine how standards are interpreted and applied. The next team starts with more context than the last one.
Keep the formal manual current.
When desired, captured decisions can be reviewed and periodically incorporated into the organization’s official design manual or standards documentation.
INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE
Keep decades of expertise inside your organization.
Experienced facilities, engineering and design staff make important judgment calls every day that never make it into the formal manual. Core Runway captures those decisions as part of the review workflow.
When experienced people retire or move on, their knowledge should not leave with them.
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Approved exceptions, preferred approaches, accepted products and recurring interpretations become a reusable record for the organization
Capture expert decisions
Record approvals, rejections and overrides in context.
Preserve recurring preferences
Retain preferred products, details and interpretations
Help newer staff work consistently
Give teams access to the same institutional guidance.
Maintain a source-linked history
Keep the decision tied to the project documents and rule that drove it
HOW IT WORKS
From institutional rulebook to approved product.
Core Runway first checks specifications and drawings against the owner’s standards. Once the project specification is established, it checks proposed products against that specification, finds missing manufacturer documentation automatically, and prepares a source-linked comparison for human approval.
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ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL
Upload the rulebook once, add custom rules
Maintain design manuals, owner standards, approved products, sustainability requirements and organization-specific construction rules at the organization level.
BENEFIT
Existing Standards
Every project can be reviewed against the same current institutional requirements rather than relying on memory or manual interpretation.
DESIGN REVIEW
Check specs and drawings against the rulebook
Architectural specifications and drawings are reviewed when they arrive and again whenever they change. Variances are flagged before they move further into the project.
OUTCOME
Establish the project requirements
The current project specification becomes the downstream standard used to evaluate actual submitted products and equipment.
SUBMITTAL REVIEW
Compare the proposed product to the spec
If a submittal names an HVAC unit, coating, roofing system or other actual product, Core Runway checks that product against the applicable project requirements.
FOCUSED COMPARISON
Review against what actually governs the submittal
The submittal is checked against the project specification rather than the full institutional rulebook, keeping the review precise and relevant.
AUTOMATED DOCUMENT SEARCH
Core Runway finds missing product documents
If required technical data is absent from the submittal, Core Runway searches for the manufacturer’s supporting documents automatically.
AUTOMATED EXTRACTION
Extract only the evidence needed for review
Relevant performance data, certifications and product attributes are extracted from those source documents and prepared for comparison.
COMPARE + FLAG
See what is missing and what needs attention
Core Runway identifies compliant requirements, discrepancies, missing information and exceptions requiring reviewer attention.
SOURCE-LINKED EVIDENCE
Every conclusion can be verified
Reviewers can trace findings back to the governing specification, submitted product information and manufacturer source documentation.
HUMAN APPROVAL
Your team remains in control
Core Runway performs the research and comparison, but a qualified reviewer makes the final approval, rejection or override decision.
FULL AUDIT TRAIL
Trace the complete decision path
Institutional rule → project specification → submitted product → manufacturer evidence → human decision.