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STAGE 1: INCEPTION

Stage 1 - Inception

5% OF TOTAL SERVICE

RECEIVE, APPRAISE AND REPORT ON THE CLIENT'S REQUIREMENTS WITH REGARD TO:

  • Client's brief

  • The site, and rights and constraints

  • Budgetary constraints

  • The need for consultants

  • Project program

  • Methods of contracting

Stage 2 - Concept and Viability

Stage 2 - Concept and Viability

15% OF TOTAL SERVICE

PREPARE AN INITIAL DESIGN AND ADVISE ON:

  • Space provisions and planning relationships

  • Proposed materials and services

  • Technical and functional design characteristics

  • Check for property rights conformity

  • Review anticipated project cost

  • Review project program

  • Submit site development plans to local authority if required

Stage 3 - Design and Development

Stage 3 - Design and Development

20% OF TOTAL SERVICE

  • Confirm the scope and complexity

  • Review design and consult local and statutory authorities

  • Develop design, construction system, materials and components

  • Incorporate services and consultants work

  • Review design costing and program with consultants

Stage 4.1 - Local Authority Drawings

  • Stage 4.1 - Local Authority Drawings

    20% OF TOTAL SERVICE

    • Co-ordinate technical documentation with consultants and

    • Prepare specifications for the works

    • Review costing & program with consultants

    • Obtain client’s authority and submit documents for approval

Stage 4.2 - Construction Documentation and Tenders

  • 10% OF TOTAL SERVICE

  • Obtain clients authority to prepare documents to procure offers for works

  • Evaluate offers and recommend on the award of the building contract

  • Prepare the contract documentation and arrange for the signing of the building contract

Stage 5 - Construction

Stage 5 - Construction

27% OF TOTAL SERVICE

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION

  • Hand over the site to the contractor

  • Issue construction documentation

  • Initiate and/or check subcontract 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 agreements and issue the certificate of practical completion

  • Assist the client to obtain the occupation certificate

Stage 6 - Close Out

Stage 6 - Close Out

3% OF TOTAL SERVICE

  • Fulfil and complete the project close-out including the preparation of the necessary documentation to facilitate the effective completion, handover and operation of the project.

  • After the contractors 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.

Key stages of a project

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