I mean, the Architect has designed and planned the unit on paper and will be supervising the whole contruction till completion. in other words, a contractor will be asked to get the civil work done??? please advice.
Review the executed contract with the architect to verify Construction Administration/Observation is included in his fees. The architect will only observe and not supervise on the project site. He may make recommendation and answer questions from the Contractor (RFI- Request for Information) and approve Change Orders and Payment Applications. It should be clearly written in his scope of work. As for the "Civil work", it depends on what your definition of "Civil work" is. If you are referring to site excavation, then the contractor should be responsible provided the earth work is within the scope of the overall project. If you are referring to the design of Grading and Drainage (which also includes a flood report) or Soil investigation report, then it falls into the scope of a Civil Engineer which will not be included in the scope of either the architect nor contractor. Read your contractual agreement with the architect and contractor carefully, it will tell you specifically what they are and aren’t responsible for.
September 29th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Review the executed contract with the architect to verify Construction Administration/Observation is included in his fees. The architect will only observe and not supervise on the project site. He may make recommendation and answer questions from the Contractor (RFI- Request for Information) and approve Change Orders and Payment Applications. It should be clearly written in his scope of work. As for the "Civil work", it depends on what your definition of "Civil work" is. If you are referring to site excavation, then the contractor should be responsible provided the earth work is within the scope of the overall project. If you are referring to the design of Grading and Drainage (which also includes a flood report) or Soil investigation report, then it falls into the scope of a Civil Engineer which will not be included in the scope of either the architect nor contractor. Read your contractual agreement with the architect and contractor carefully, it will tell you specifically what they are and aren’t responsible for.
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