How can design professionals do such sloppy work that must be caught, corrected or redesigned by contractors? I speak specifically in regards to life safety systems.
No one is perfect and I am not asking for perfection. My complaint is that I am constantly having to provide design coordination between trades or rework existing systems that no one has touched or reviewed in years. It has certainly made me much better at my job. And it can pay when change orders come our way, but at a certain cost. Not to mention time and aggravation. The most common reason is to the lack of details and the use the phrases such as "typical" and "contractor is responsible for coordination with other trades..." The coordination of the physical execution of the work is the contractor's job. We are not however, mind readers, and piles of RFI's get annoying for both sides.
Most projects, no matter the size, require a rework of systems integration/coordination on some level. I will end up having to spoon feed to the designer the exact details needed he needs to put on on paper to maintain code compliance. Either that, or have their intentions meaningfully summarized. In some cases the email reply is follow best practices (gee thanks). We cannot always extrapolate meaning with the word 'typical' or ,decide we are correct and just do what we want, if you are the one who is the designer of record.
Changes are expected and understood, but what about all the specs on hand in advance?
Are you overworked or haphazardly cutting and pasting boiler plate?
Those of you who have PE, FPE and AA after your names, is their any hope for your industry to get better?
No one is perfect and I am not asking for perfection. My complaint is that I am constantly having to provide design coordination between trades or rework existing systems that no one has touched or reviewed in years. It has certainly made me much better at my job. And it can pay when change orders come our way, but at a certain cost. Not to mention time and aggravation. The most common reason is to the lack of details and the use the phrases such as "typical" and "contractor is responsible for coordination with other trades..." The coordination of the physical execution of the work is the contractor's job. We are not however, mind readers, and piles of RFI's get annoying for both sides.
Most projects, no matter the size, require a rework of systems integration/coordination on some level. I will end up having to spoon feed to the designer the exact details needed he needs to put on on paper to maintain code compliance. Either that, or have their intentions meaningfully summarized. In some cases the email reply is follow best practices (gee thanks). We cannot always extrapolate meaning with the word 'typical' or ,decide we are correct and just do what we want, if you are the one who is the designer of record.
Changes are expected and understood, but what about all the specs on hand in advance?
Are you overworked or haphazardly cutting and pasting boiler plate?
Those of you who have PE, FPE and AA after your names, is their any hope for your industry to get better?