How to Read an Aura & Form Finish Schedule
The finish schedule is the document that outlives the project. It is issued at technical documentation, updated on site, and handed over as-built — and it is the only record of what a surface actually is once the drawings are archived.
Ref
The schedule code, which appears on the drawings and nowhere else. It is the only unambiguous way to refer to a surface — "the kitchen oak" is three different products on a typical project.
Product and batch
The manufacturer, the product name and the batch or dye lot. Batch matters more than name on anything fired, dyed or quarried: two orders of the same tile from different batches will not match, and the schedule is what lets a repair in five years be ordered correctly.
Finish
Honed, brushed, oiled, matt — the treatment applied to the material, which is separate from the material itself. This is the column most often approved without being read, and the one that changes how a surface looks the most.
Lead time and fallback
Weeks from order to delivery, and the named alternative if the first choice is discontinued. A schedule without a fallback column forces a decision on site, under time pressure, by whoever is standing there.
Sign-off
Who approved it and against what — a physical sample, a digital proof, or nothing. This is the column that decides who pays when a delivered material is not what was expected.