Scope Gaps
A Scope Gap is an item that doesn't fit cleanly into any single trade — the kind of thing that falls through the cracks between scopes and turns into a change order later. Condensate lines that could be Plumbing or HVAC are a classic example.
Rather than forcing such items into the wrong scope, Struction sets them aside as their own clearly-marked group, at the same level as your scopes, and also lists them in the Risk Register (a scope gap is treated as a type of risk). Each gap shows which scopes it could belong to.
You resolve a gap by:
- Attributing it to an existing scope, or
- Creating a new scope for it, or
- Acknowledging it as a known gap you're carrying.
Workflow example — As the senior estimator, scope gaps are your last sweep before bid. You open the gaps group, see that "equipment pads" was claimed by neither Concrete nor Mechanical, assign it to Concrete, and confirm nothing else is unowned — so you go to bid knowing the whole project is covered, with no quiet holes between trades.