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PROJECT SCOPE OF SERVICES - STRUCTURAL

Project Development Phase

	Define scope of structural services
	Assist in determining responsibility for dimensions
	Assist in determining drawing standards and specifications format
	Assist in determining number of meetings and number of site visits
	Negotiate fees and payment schedule
	Execute contract

Schematic Design Plans

	Attend meetings
	Establish structural design criteria
	Prepare studies of alternative structural systems
	Assist in selection of structural system
	Provide structural criteria for geographical consultant
	Assist in determining need for special studies

Design Development Phase

	Attend meetings
	Prepare preliminary foundation drawings
	Prepare preliminary structural design calculations
	Prepare preliminary framing layout drawings
	Prepare typical detail sheets
	Identify pre-engineered structural elements
	Prepare or edit outline specifications for structural items
	Assist preparing preliminary opinion of cost of construction
	Review results of special studies
	Coordinate structural design with special design criteria
	Submit design development documentation for approval

Contract Document Phase

	Prepare structural design of primary structural system
	Designate elements to be designed by specialty engineers, and specify structural criteria for specialty engineers’ design of pre-engineered structural elements
	Review effect of secondary or non-structural elements attached to primary structural system
	Attend meetings
	Assist in coordination with building code officials
	Complete structural calculations
	Complete structural drawings
	Prepare or edit specifications for the primary structural system
	Assist in establishing testing and inspection requirements
	Perform checking and coordination of the structural documents

Construction Administration Phase

	*Bidding and award*
	Assist in evaluating bidder’s qualifications
	Provide structural addenda and clarifications
	Assist in bid evaluation
	*Pre-construction services*
	Attend meetings
	Assist in establishing communications procedures
	Assist in establishing testing and inspection procedures
	Assist in confirming submittal agency
	Assist in selection of testing procedures
	Advise client and contractor regarding which structural elements require construction observation by SER
	Respond to building department and peer review comments
	*Submittal review*
	Review special submittals for items designed by SER
	Review submittals for pre-engineered structural elements
	*Site visits*
	Make site visits at intervals appropriate to the stage of construction
	Prepare site visit reports
	*Materials testing and inspections*
	Review testing and inspection reports
	Initiate appropriate action to those reports, if required

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