THE DUTIES OF THE ARCHITECT CONSIST OF 6 WORKSTAGES
Stage 1 : Inception
Receive, appraise and report on the client’s requirements with regard to:
- The client’s brief
- The site and rights and constraints
- Budgetary constraints
- The need for consultants
- Project programme
- Methods of contracting
Stage 2 : Concept and viability (concept design)
Prepare an initial design and advise on:
- The intended space provisions and planning relationships
- Proposed materials and intended building services
- The technical and functional characteristics of the design
- Check for conformity of the concept with the rights to the use of the land
- Review the anticipated costs of the project
- Review the project programme
Stage 3 : Design development
- Confirm the scope and complexity
- Review the design and consult with local and statutory authorities
- Develop the design, construction system, materials and components
- Incorporate ad co-ordinate all services and the work of consultants
- Review the design, costing and programme with the consultants
Stage 4.1 : Documentation for Local Authority
Prepare documentation sufficient for local authority submission:
- Co-ordinate technical documentation with the consultants and complete primary co-ordination
- Prepare specifications for the works
- Review the costing and programme with the consultants
- Obtain the client’s authority and submit documents for approval
Stage 4.2 : Construction documentation
Complete construction documentation and proceed to call for tenders:
- Obtain the client’s authority to prepare documents to procure offers for the execution of the works
- Obtain offers for the execution of the works
- Evaluate offers and recommend on the award of the building contract
- Prepare the contract documentation and arrange the signing of the building contract
Stage 5 : Construction
Administer the building contract:
- Give possession of the site to the contractor
- Issue construction documentation
- Initiate and/or check sub-contract design and documentation as appropriate
- Inspect the works for conformity to the contract documentation
- Administer and perform the duties and obligations assigned to the principal agent in the JBCC building contract, or fulfill the obligations provided for in the other forms of contract
- Issue the certificate of practical completion
- Assist the client to obtain the occupation certificate
Stage 6 : Close out
- Facilitate the project close-out including the preparation of the necessary documentation to effect completion, handover and operation of the project
- After the contractor’s obligations with respect to the building contract are fulfilled, the architect shall issue the certificates related to contract completion
- Provide the client with as-built drawings and relevant technical and contractual undertakings by the contractor and sub-contractors