Construction is one of those industries that has a lot of jargon. There are a lot of words that will make you question if people are speaking English or not. Rodbuster, Tin Knocker, Punch List, CPM, BIM… the list goes on of somewhat odd terminology that would make outsiders think you were making up words. However, some of our terminology is not quite as difficult to decipher, such as “submittal log.” Let’s break it down a bit starting with the obvious one: “log”. Many industries have logs, which simply stated means a list or inventory of items for tracking.
