Healthcare · Building or renovating · Instrument
You can’t walk a building that isn’t built. Read the calendar instead.
Every answer comes from your own project calendar, drawing set, and responsibility matrix — documents you already have, or can ask for in one email. It takes about twenty minutes, and it tells you where you are and what that stage has already closed behind you.
Nothing is stored. Nothing is sent. No email, no login — this sheet is yours.
Building or renovating · stage check
Where are you — and what has already closed
Note the answer, not a score. An “I don’t know” is itself a finding — it means nobody has asked yet.
Where are you
1. What stage is the project in right now — programming, schematic, design development, construction documents, or has rough-in started?
Your project calendar answers this in one line. It sets everything below.
2. Which delivery method — design-bid-build, design-build, or CM-at-risk?
In design-bid-build, the people who know what the security system needs arrive at bid, after the drawings are done.
What has already closed
3. Have the building’s adjacencies been set — where the ED sits relative to behavioral health, where secure zones meet public ones?
These close at schematic design and cannot be un-drawn. If you’re past schematic, they’re decided.
4. Is a Security Vulnerability Assessment in the project’s scope, led by a qualified professional?
IAHSS calls for one. Ask whether it exists and who owns it. “I don’t know” is the finding.
5. Is there space and power reserved for a security head-end — the equipment for a system you haven’t selected yet?
A room and a circuit, or not. Reserving it is cheap now and structural later.
6. Are pathways drawn for devices you might add — or only for the ones already named in the drawings?
Spare conduit and back-boxes are a line on a drawing today and a demolition ticket after the wall closes.
7. Was anyone who knows what the security system needs in the room when the pathways were drawn?
If the integrator arrives at bid, the answer is usually no — and the drawings already committed.
8. Who signed off on the security-relevant adjacencies — and were they looking at security when they did?
A name, or no name. Both tell you something.
9. If a behavioral-health unit is in scope: do you know which FGI edition your state will enforce when the building opens — not which one you’re drawing to now?
As of today the 2022 Guidelines are operative; a wearable-duress requirement is in the unpublished 2026 edition. Adoption varies by state. “I don’t know” is a legitimate answer — and a reason to ask.
Nothing here asks you to read a drawing like an engineer, call the architect, or know a code section. It asks where you are in your own schedule and what that stage has closed — answerable from documents you already hold.