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Rework

Design and documentation effort spent redoing completed work after an issue surfaces late: moving a wall after coordination is locked, redrawing sheets, rechecking everything that was built on the earlier assumption.

Why it matters

Late-discovered code issues are one of the largest avoidable sources of rework in practice, and the least visible, because the cost is spread across the team as overtime rather than invoiced as a line item. Owners feel it as schedule; firms feel it as margin.