Building Services Engineering After Design, During Construction
, by Portman, Jackie
- ISBN: 9781119035961 | 1119035961
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/31/2016
Building Services Engineering focuses on how the design-construction interface and how the design intent is handled through the construction stage to handover and in the short term thereafter.Part One sets the scene by describing the stakeholders involved in the construction stage and the project management context.Part Two focuses specifically on the potential roles and responsibilities of building services engineers during construction and post-construction.
Dr Jackie Portman DBEnv., MSc., BEng(Hons), ACGI, CEng, FCIBSE, FIET, MCIOB, is a highly accomplished building services engineering project manager with an enviable track record of delivering complex multi-million pound infrastructure and construction projects within budget and operational standards. She graduated in electrical engineering from Imperial College, University of London and too her first steps into the construction industry. She was attracted by the exciting, challenging, ever-changing and all-encompassing nature of the construction industry: where there are always new challenges and areas of interest and has never looked back. She has worked in consultancy, main-contracting, building services sub-contracting, project management and client organisations in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. She has led the project management process of a range of projects in terms of complexity, size and uses: university complexes (libraries, archive buildings, state of the art education and research facilities), healthcare projects (wards, laboratories, clinical areas), single and mixed-use commercial office complexes, residential developments and schools. She has always been keen to enthuse and motivate students and trainees and has used her ‘hands-on’ perspective to support full-time academics and teachers. She has been a visiting lecturer at the University of the West of England and the City of Bristol College: also, contributing to the development of the syllabuses, in particular, ensuring the relevance to current industry trends and requirements. She obtained her doctorate from the University of the West of England, researching into ways and means of improving the contribution of building services engineers to the building design process: looking at how they are perceived by the rest of the construction industry and what tools and processes would help improve their performances.
Preface xi
About the Author xv
Introduction 1
Design finalisation 5
Cost finalisation 6
Programme finalisation 7
Post-construction involvement 7
Advisory roles 8
Summary 8
Feedback question 8
Reference 8
Part One Stakeholders and procedures during construction 9
Feedback questions 12
1 The client team 13
1.1 Client team functions 13
1.2 Client’s liabilities and obligations 15
Health and safety 16
Awarding the contract for construction 17
Handover to contractor of the site 17
Providing information to the construction team 18
Discharging residual design decisions 20
Handback from contractor to client 21
Client’s fit-out 22
Summary 23
Feedback questions 23
2 The design team 25
2.1 Design team members and arrangement 25
Assignment and novation 26
Duty of care 29
Copyright 32
Site presence 34
2.2 Design team liabilities and obligations during construction 35
Design liability 35
Liability to provide accurate cost advice 37
Liability to provide accurate programming advice 38
Liability for defective workmanship 39
Liability for maintaining competency 39
Responsibility for record keeping 39
Summary 39
Feedback question 40
Reference 40
3 The construction team 41
3.1 Construction team parties 45
Main contractor 45
Trade subcontractors 45
Off-site supply chain 47
Logistics 49
Support services 51
3.2 Construction team arrangements 51
Separated arrangement 52
Integrated arrangements 52
Management-orientated arrangements 53
Product-based arrangement 53
Partnering 55
3.3 Construction team liabilities and obligations 55
Health and safety 55
Liability for design errors 56
Liability for defects in construction 57
Liability for subcontractors 57
Liability to the general public 59
Liability during warranty period 59
Summary 60
Feedback questions 61
Reference 61
4 Enforcing authorities 63
4.1 Defining 64
4.2 Publishing 65
4.3 Monitoring 66
4.4 Enforcing 68
Regulators 68
Summary 69
Feedback questions 69
5 Public utility services providers 71
Wayleaves and easements 72
5.1 Utility services provider’s liabilities and obligations 73
Provision of information 73
Providing quotations 75
Carry out the work and arrange payment 76
Standards and quality of utility services in operation 76
Summary 78
Feedback question 78
Reference 78
6 Non-contractual stakeholders 79
6.1 Neighbours to a construction project 79
6.2 The general public 81
6.3 Awards bodies 81
6.4 Trade unions 81
6.5 Trade associations 82
6.6 Special interest groups 82
6.7 Industry regulators 83
Summary 83
Feedback question 83
Part Two Processes 85
Health and safety 85
Professional ethics 85
7 Contract management 87
7.1 Contract procurement 87
Announcement of tenders 87
Tender documents issued 89
Tender evaluation 92
Negotiation 96
Establishing the construction contract 97
7.2 Contract administration 97
Managing client changes 98
Reporting to clients 98
Responding to queries 99
Issuing certificates 100
7.3 Cost management 100
Bills of quantities 103
Valuations 104
7.4 Programme management 104
Summary 105
Feedback question 106
8 Post-contract design changes 107
8.1 Discharging residual design responsibilities 108
8.2 Addressing new design requirements 110
Client changes 110
Changes in legislation 111
Changes in reference information 112
New information on site conditions 112
Emergence of new technologies 113
Changes due to value engineering 113
8.3 Rectifying errors in the original design 113
Summary 113
Feedback questions 114
Reference 114
9 Examining construction documentation 115
9.1 Construction documentation 117
Health and safety information 117
Technical information 117
Construction methodology 119
9.2 The submittal process 121
Purpose of the examination 122
Documents to be checked 123
Equal and approved 125
Recording and reporting findings 128
Summary 129
Feedback questions 130
Reference 130
10 Observation of the physical installation 131
10.1 Types of deficiencies 133
Patent and latent defects 134
Workmanship deficiencies 134
Materials deficiencies 134
10.2 Off-site visits 136
Manufactured equipment 137
Assembled goods and prefabricated systems 137
10.3 On-site visits 138
Site acceptance tests 140
10.4 Inspection and testing 140
10.5 Commissioning 141
Summary 143
Feedback question 143
11 Handover and post-construction 145
11.1 Defects liability period 146
11.2 Collateral warranty and latent defects insurance 148
11.3 Defects management 148
Snagging 149
11.4 Documentation for handover 149
Record of the installation 150
Guidance material for operation of the building 150
Compliance with legislation and standards 150
11.5 Legacy design issues 151
Residual design issues 151
Latent defects 151
Occupancy issues 153
11.6 Post-occupancy evaluation 153
Occupant welfare and wellness 154
Measuring the environment conditions 155
Energy and water-use assessment 155
Summary 155
12 Reporting and advisory roles 157
12.1 External audits 157
Post-design audit 157
Construction audit 157
Post-completion audit 158
12.2 Expert witness 159
12.3 Expert adviser 160
12.4 Dispute resolution 160
Summary 161
Feedback question 161
Index 163
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