Securing an appropriate site and confirming ownership rights
Ensuring the necessary services, access and transport links
Releasing capital, securing loans or
attracting the necessary investment to
finance the whole project
Obtaining guarantees from future beneficiaries
Appointments
Assessing the qualifications, experience and overall competency
of the Architect, Designer(s), Principal Contractor and CDM
Co-ordinator (when appropriate) as part of the appointment process.
Checking the appointees have the necessary resources to complete
the task(s) expected of them
Confirming there are suitable management arrangements in
place to ensure the safe and timely delivery of the project
Project Design
Establishing the project brief and overall objectives
Setting out the project parameters and constraints
Entering a contract with specialist designers and/or engineers
Providing pre-construction information to designers,
engineers and contractors
Providing information for the Health and Safety File
Paying the fees associated with securing Planning Permission
and Building Regulations approval
Tender
Allowing the necessary time for project delivery
Agreeing the Form of Contract that will deliver the project and its
objectives within the established parameters
Agreeing the procurement strategy in terms of tendering process,
potential contractors, designers and timescale
Contract
Entering into a contract with the Designers, Principal Contractor and any
suppliers nominated through the contract
Obtaining the necessary street works licences (when
appropriate) and paying the associated fees
Meeting the costs of bridge strengthening/road repairs necessary
for the transport to site of articles intended for incorporation into the
Permanent Works or temporary works designed by the Architect or
Engineer
Site Organisation
Ensuring there are sufficient welfare facilities in place for all persons on site
including contractors and workers directly engaged by the client or authorised
authorities carrying out work in connection with the site
Project Construction
Preventing the commencement of any works before the
Construction Phase Plan is in place
Providing insurance(s) for the Works, Third Party risks
etc. when the Contractor has failed to do so
Ensuring the Contractor has the right of access to the site, the
individual parts as access is required or other places where
access is necessary for providing services to the project or its
construction processes
Project Expenditure
Paying to the Contractor(s) the amounts certified by the
managing Architect or Engineer
Repaying notices and fees required by Act of Parliament or Bye-law
Paying for damage to persons and property due to
Excepted Risks and Exceptions
Paying the costs of materials, products, services etc.
purchased or commissioned separate to the Contract
testing & commisioning
Accepting ownership / stewardship and liability
subject to any contractual warranty
JCT CA & EA
Overall
Administers the contract and attempts to assure the contract sum by ensuring that the contractor
complies with its instructions
Has wider powers when acting as employer's agent
In certain instances, contractual provisions can be subject to 'fair and reasonable' assessment
Quality Control
Issues timely information relating to set out and any other pre-agreed information as and when required.
Variations
Issues instructions/variations to overcome discrepancies and/or changes in scope of works
Issues notices in respect of remedying discrepancies between contract documents (clauses 2.13-2.18)
Time and Money
Certifies sums due
Assesses delay and grants time and cost relief according to prescribed provisions but subject to
overriding power to grant time relief as is fair and reasonable immediately following practical completion
Issues extensions of time which it considers fair and reasonable and reaches a decision as soon as
reasonably practical (clause 2.28.2)
Considers with the QS, if employed, all interim valuations, claims for variations and loss/expense
resulting and issue payment certificates as appropriate
Practical completion and snagging
Determines when practical completion achieved and issues notices of non-completion, defects and can
allow early possession
Issues practical completion certificate or sectional completion certificates (clauses 2.30-2.32) or a
non-completion certificate (clause 2.31)
After practical completion, immediately considers the overall position on extensions of time and
exercises discretion as to whether any further adjustment to time should be made
Collaborative role with the employer and contractor including prescribed communication routes
Acts in a spirit of mutual trust and co-operation with the employer, contractor and supervisor (condition
10.1)
Quality Control
Acts as gatekeeper to contractor's design and programme forming part of the contract and use of
sub-contractors. Considering and accepting the contractor's design if any (conditions 21-23), any
sub-contractors (condition 26) and the proposed programme (condition 31)
Replies within the period for reply to any communication submitted to it by the contractor
Issues certificates to the employer and contractor
Operates the early warning mechanism by notifying the contractor of any increase, delay or impairment
to performance, entering such instances in the risk register, attending risk reduction meetings and making
decisions and finding solutions with others to overcome those risks (condition 16)
Issues instructions dealing with acts of prevention (condition 19)
Variations
Issues instructions relating to changes in scope and completion date
Actively monitors by means of an early warning mechanism for any change to scope, price, timings or
impairment of performance
Time and Money
Certifies sums due
Decides the date of completion and certifying completion (condition 30)
Notifies the contractor of the outcome for any claim for a compensation event and requests quotations
for any proposed instruction or changed decision
Assesses the additional cost of the contractor not achieving a key date (condition 25.3)
Considers compensation events, their value and instructing their implementation (conditions 60-65)
Practical completion and snagging
Determines when practical completion achieved
Assesses defects and their value (conditions 40-45).
CONTRACTOR
SUB-CONTRACTOR
ENGINEER (FIDIC/ICE)
The eng is the clients agent + in traditional forms of
contract is considered 2 b the leader of the bdg team
seen as LEAD DESIGNER
DUTIES
Advise the emp
Instructions 2 contractor
info 2 MC
QS functions
QS (JCT)
The quantity surveyor is named in Article 4. The principal
responsibility of the quantity surveyor is to value the
work undertaken by the contractor to enable the
architect/contract administrator to prepare interim
certificates (clause 4.10.2 in 2011, clause 4.11 in 2005
version).
to value any loss and/or expense suffered by the
contractor under clauses 4.23, if so instructed by the
architect/contract administrator;
to prepare a statement setting out the final
adjustment to the contract sum (clause 4.5);
to prepare a statement showing the amount of
retention deducted from an interim certificate,
if so instructed by the architect/contract
administrator (clauses 4.18 – 4.19); and
to value work pursuant to variations or the
expenditure of provisional sums, where necessary
(clause 5.2).