SIFDR handles commercial, residential, multi-family, and demolition plans. There is no vertical-specific logic — the cleanup is identical. What differs is the shape of the work, and that is what these four describe.
Office, retail, hospitality, and mixed-use work, where tenant-improvement schedules are compressed and the same base drawing is reused across fit-outs.
Single-family and production residential work, where the same plan types come back repeatedly and consistency matters more than novelty.
Repetitive unit layouts and high documentation volume, where the same unit type recurs across floors and buildings.
Demolition plans, where the source drawing is often the oldest and least consistent document on the project.
Populating the RCP stays your engineer’s work, and we would rather you knew that before you started than after. SIFDR is a tool that assists your engineer’s work. It is not the final word, and it is not a compliance engine. Your engineer reviews the plans for accuracy, and the stamp is theirs.
Whichever of the four you work in, the test is the same one. SIFDR reads DWG and DXF, and writes both formats back.