Full service: architect, principal consultant and principal agent

Stage 1: Inception

• Receive, appraise and report on the client’s requirements with regards to:

  • the client’s brief

  • the site conditions and statutory restrictions and rights of the site

  • budgetary constraints

  • the required consultants

  • the project programme

  • methods of contracting

 

Stage 2: Concept and Viability

• Prepare an initial design concept and advise the client on the following:

  • the intended space provisions and planning relationships

  • proposed materials and building services

  • the technical and functional characteristics of the design

• Check for conformity of the design concept with the statutory restrictions and rights of the site specifically with respect to the allowed use of the site.

• Review the anticipated costs of the project against the approved budget

• Review the project programme

 

Stage 3: Design Development

• Confirm the scope and complexity of the project

• Review the design and consult with the local statutory authorities

• Develop the design, construction systems, materials and components

• Incorporate all services and the work of consultants

• Review the design, costing and programme with the consultants  

 

Stage 4: Documentation and Procurement

Stage 4.1:

• Prepare documentation sufficient for local authority submission:

  • co-ordinate technical documentation with the consultants and complete primary co-ordiantion

  • prepare specifications for the works

  • review the costing and programme with the consultants

  • obtain the client’s authority and submit documents to the local authority for approval.

Stage 4.2

• Complete the construction documentation and proceed to call for tenders:

  • obtain the client’s authority to prepare documents to procure offers for the execution of the works

  • obtain offers for the execution of the works

  • evaluate offers and recommend on the award of the building contract

  • prepare the contract documentation and arrange for the signing thereof

 

Stage 5: Construction

• Contract administration:

  • hand over the site to the contractor

  • issue construction documentation

  • initiate and/or check sub-contract designs and documentations as appropriate

• inspect the works for conformity to the contract documentation

  • administer and perform the duties and obligations assigned to the principal agent in the jbcc building agreements, or fulfill the obligations provided for in other forms of contract

  • issue the certificate of practical completion

  • assist the client to obtain the occupation certificate to be issued by the local authorities

 

Stage 6: Close Out

• Fulfill and complete the project close out including the preparation of the necessary documentation to facilitate the effective completion, handover and operation of the project

• After the contractor’s obligations with respect to the building contract are fulfilled, the architect shall issue the certificates related to contract completion.

• Provide the client with as built drawings and relevant technical and contractual undertakings by the contractor and sub-contractors