Assembling A Collaborative Team - Other - Page 84
•There are a number of design issues in relation to the
steelwork for an entrance canopy and the curtain walling.
The responsibilities reflect the coordination work required to
ensure that these aspects are properly considered prior to
the specialist subcontractors commencing their design work.
•Planning discussions and the resultant conditions attached
to the planning consent have dictated that a number of items
in the external elevation are specified as ‘full: proprietary’
in order to ensure that samples which have been signed off
are adhered to. The ‘non-visible’ aspects of these elements
have, however, been specified in a way that allows the
contractor and specialist contractor a degree of flexibility
in the design development.
•The detailed notes reflect the enhanced level of design expected
at Stage 3. The full team has been specified and each party’s
design responsibilities noted. The project is to be tendered
as a two-stage design and build form of Building Contract
and therefore the contractor is generically named.
This example is not representative of all of the elements of a
large project but provides sufficient examples and notes to
clarify how the Design Responsibility Matrix should be completed.
From this limited worked example, produced at Stage 1 and
updated at the beginning of Stage 3, the following points can
be observed:
•The updates at Stage 3 help to ensure that key aspects
of the design will be developed during Stage 3.
•The Information Exchanges at Stage 2 were included in
the matrix at Stage 1 on the request of the lead designer to
ensure that the right level of detail was produced by both
the building services engineer and the civil and structural
engineer at the end of this stage.
•The sprinklers will be performance specified; however,
notes 5 clarifies the fact that the tender constraints must
consider the ceiling grid dimensions as well as any
parameters set out in the building services specification.
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