Receive, appraise and report on the client's requirements about:
• The client’s brief, site and rights, and constraints, budgetary constraints, the need for consultants, project program, and methods of contracting
Concept design
Prepare an initial design and advise on:
• The intended space provisions and planning relationships, proposed materials and intended building services are the technical and functional characteristics of the design
Check for conformity of the concept with the rights to the use of land.
Design Development
• Review the design and consult with local and statutory authorities.
• Develop the design, construction system, materials, and components.
• Incorporate and coordinate all services and the work of consultants.
• Review the design, costing, and program with the consultants.
Documentation
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 program with the consultants
• obtain the client’s authority and submit documents for approval
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 the award of the building contract.
• prepare the contract documentation and arrange for the signing of the building contract.
Construction
• Administer the building contract.
• Give possession of the site to the contractor.
• Issue contract 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 other forms of the contract
• Issue the certificate of practical completion
• Assist the client to obtain the occupation certificate
Closet out
Facilitate the project close-out, including preparing the necessary documentation to effect completion, handover, and operation of the project.
• After the contractor’s obligations concerning the building contract are fulfilled, the architectural professional 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.
