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Inherently difficult role stems from construction manager acting as contractor and estimator - Answer Cost decisions made early in design directly affect the construction managers cost and profitability later in construction. Design build delivery method provides the owner with a single point re...

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Inherently difficult role stems from construction manager acting as contractor and
estimator - Answer Cost decisions made early in design directly affect the construction
managers cost and profitability later in construction.


Design build delivery method provides the owner with a single point responsibility for
both design and construction - Answer Emerged from owners dissatisfaction with
tensions and conflicts between architects and contractors


One problem with design build is the mechanism by which the owner establishes and
enforces the performance and quality parameters of the project - Answer This role was
typically assumed by the architect as an agent for the owner separate from the
contractor.


Bridge design build is a variation of design build which addresses the owner
representation problem - Answer Bridge design build employees : a design architect
reestablishes the design concept and a production architect who determines technical
criteria and generates construction documents.


In bridging, the owner eventually hires to Architects, one of which is part of a design
build team - Answer The first Architect prepares a preliminary design for a building and
performance specifications, detailed criteria to which the ultimate design must conform


The completed concept and criteria package, based on design development drawings
and specifications - Answer Is then tendered to design build teams that offer both
technical architecture and construction capabilities.

,Guaranteed maximum price approaches to construction cost - Answer Establishment of
a guaranteed maximum price suggests a commitment by the owner and construction
manager contractor to a cost based on a partially complete set of design documents.


Project documents typically consist of - Answer The project manual, and the project
drawings.


The project manual includes the following - Answer Bidding requirements, contract
forms and supplements, contract conditions, and specifications.


The bidding documents include - Answer The project manual and drawings, as well as
revisions, clarifications, and modifications to them including addenda.


The contract documents include - Answer All of the documents just listed except the
bidding documents. Contract documents also include contract modifications.


Construction documentation contains - Answer Legal and contractual information,
procedural and administration information in Division I, project specifications expanded
in part one of specifications, insight infrastructure information such as surveys and
geotechnical data.


Division I general requirements - Answer Contains procedural and administrative
information of the construction documents. This is then expanded in part one of each
specification section.


The contract forms and conditions established the legal framework of a project by
setting forth the rights, duties, and responsibilities of the owner and contractor -
Answer On larger projects it is customary to separate the contract form from the
contract conditions

,The contract form - Answer Is the agreement between owner and contractor reading
the contract documents, specifying the time of performance, and stating the contractors
compensation.


The conditions of the contract - Answer Set forth the rights, duties, and responsibilities
of owner and contractor and other parties to the construction process


Separating the form from the conditions - Answer Allows the contractor to disclose the
contract conditions to subcontractors without revealing the contract sum or other
private information.


The owner architect agreement requires the architect to assist the owner in
development and preparation of - Answer Bidding in procurement information, bidding
or proposal forms, form of agreement between owner and contractor, conditions of the
contract,


The architect is not in the practice of law it is not professionally qualified to give the
owner legal or insurance counsel - Answer It is common, however, for Architects to
assemble the bidding in contracts will documents, providing them for review and
approval by the owner.


The owner is responsible for furnishing the necessary legal, accounting, and insurance
services to accomplish a project. - Answer Therefore, the owner, with legal counsel,
approves the bidding requirements, contract forms, and conditions.


It is often worthwhile for the architects legal counsel to review owner prepared
documents regarding the Architects responsibilities and indemnification of the architect
- Answer Including role of the architect during construction, ownership of the
documents, dispute resolution, and similar provisions.

, Procedural and administrative information is typically found in three places in the
construction documentation - Answer The general conditions of the contract, division
one of the specifications, and in the opening articles, part one, of the specifications in
divisions two through 48.


The general conditions of the contract contain provisions common to most projects -
Answer In addition to legal and contractual information, general conditions include
requirements for a variety of contract administration activities


Gen. conditions of the contract for construction is widely recognized for establishing
common general conditions practices - Answer Such as reviewing shop drawings,
samples, reviewing contractors payment requests, approving minor changes in the
work, monitoring the work, issuing site observation reports, and closeout documents


Division one of the specifications expands on information in the general conditions and
often includes the following - Answer Office procedures, format for shop drawing
submittals, number of sets of submittals required, completion procedures, owner
procedures, codes, records documents, temporary facilities, and testing laboratory
methods.


Division I, general requirements include the following information - Answer Summary,
contract summary, allowances, unit prices, alternates, contract modification
procedures, payment procedures


Division I also includes - Answer Project management and coordination, construction
progress documentation, photographic documentation, submittal procedures,


Division one also includes - Answer Submittal procedures, special procedures for
detention facilities, historic treatment procedures, quality requirements, references

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