08 - GLOSSARY &LINKS
- Landscape Practice Class
- Apr 5, 2020
- 4 min read
GLOSSARY
Client
A private client may be unaware of the sequence of the design and construction process or of the functions and responsibilities of those engaged in a landscape contract. The Landscape Architect, as the client's agent, should advise him of his role.
Responsibility :
Signs the legal contract
Appoints the design team
Appoints the resident site staff(RSS)
End users
Pay the contractor
Lead Consultant/Supervising Officer
The agent of the employer and is appointed directly to perform the role of Supervising Officer (an impartial role between Employer and Contractor)
Responsibility (Design Issues) :
Sets acceptable standards of materials and workmanship
Approves material samples and mock-ups
Clarifies contractor’s queries
Provides any necessary information to complete the design
Issues instructions and variation orders
Visits the site to inspect the progress and quality of the work
Responsibility (Contract Issues) :
Certifies work stages complete
Makes recommendations on interim and final payments
Assessed extensions of time
Checks and certifies the authenticity of accounts(with QS)
Make periodic reports to the client
Identifies any variation in the cost or duration of the works
Landscape architects (or landscape designers) plan, design and manage open spaces and aim to provide aesthetically pleasing urban and rural environments. They can work on a variety of projects from designing parks and green space, to gardens and sports sites or improving construction sites.
Quantity surveyors manage the costs on a construction project. They help to ensure that the construction project is completed within its projected budget. Alternative job titles for a quantity surveyor include ‘cost consultant’, ‘commercial manager’, ‘cost manager’ and ‘cost engineer’.
Responsibility:
Measures work carried out and values any material held on-site
Agrees with the contractor the values of the interim measurement
Prepares and submits valuations to the Lead
Provides estimates of the cost/savings of variations to the work
Measures and calculates the value of work carried out
Agrees with the value with the contractor of the Final Account
Generally advises the lead of financial aspects and implications of change
Consultants are professionals, typically, appointed by the client to perform expert tasks on a project. Act purely as advisors to the Lead Consultant on specialist aspects of design or construction. They act under the Lead and cannot issue instructions directly.
Employed by the client to supervise the contractor’s work on-site, to check that the works are built in accordance with the contract requirement.
Types of RSS:
Professional staff (Architect/ Engineer/ QS/ Building Services Engineer/ Land Surveyor/ Landscape Architect)
Inspectorate staff (Inspector of Works/ WS/ LFO/ Clerk of Works)
Survey officers, technical officers, chainmen
Clerical & support staff
Drivers, workmen etc
A contractor manages the construction of a building, which the architect designs. They are needed to actually execute the vision and are often the ones who hire subcontractors and construction workers to build the project. They work in tandem with the architect to finish the project with few issues.
Contract Manager is the person who is in-charge of the process of managing contracts that are made as part of the delivery of a built asset. It involves the creation, analysis and execution of contracts by the parties to those contracts to ensure operational and financial performance is maximised, and risks are minimised
A subcontractor is a company or person whom a general contractor (or prime contractor, or main contractor) hires to perform a specific task as part of an overall project and normally pays for services provided to the project.
Safety Officers (aka Health and safety consultant)
The role of the health and safety consultant is to promote a positive health and safety culture in the workplace. They are primarily responsible for ensuring that risks in the workplace are controlled and that organisations are successfully meeting safety standards.
Statutory Authorities
Confirming the extent of the site and ensuring statutory regulations relating to construction works are being complied with. (LabourD, LandsD, FSD, HyD, TD, EMSD etc).
The defects liability period begins upon certification of practical completion and typically lasts six to twelve months. During this period, the client reports any defects that arise to the contract administrator who decides whether they are defects (i.e. works that are not in accordance with the contract), or whether they are in fact maintenance issues. If the contract administrator considers they are defects, then they may issue instructions to the contractor to make them good within a reasonable time.
Process:
Time period (usually 3-6 months) within which the contractor is liable to rectify any identified defects
Schedule of defects issued following practical completion certificate
End of DLP all defects made good - issue a certificate of making good defects
Retention money released and certificate of completion
Establishment Period (EP)
Period of time for contract and maintaining the planting works
Undertaking regular maintenance operations
May have a separate DOP attached to time maybe three months
Frequently neglected by contractors due to maintenance costs
Retention money needs to be sufficient to encourage maintenance
Monetary compensation paid to the employer by the main contractor in the event of late completion
The rate should be stated in the contract(usually $/day)
Needs to be justifiable and substantiated
Usually made by adjustment of the final account
Issued by Architect to certify that the works are entirely complete to the employer’s satisfaction in accordance with the contract
Contractor obligated to submit documents to help the preparation of the final account
LINKS
Pre-meeting
Meeting / During construction:
Post-meeting Evaluation
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