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Stage 5 > Construction: Supplementary Material: 5/SM3
• Confirm the contractor’s status and role as competent constructor under the
CDM Regulations.
Contractor’s matters
• Check that the contractor’s master programme is in the form required and
that it satisfactorily accommodates the specialist subcontractors. It must:
–– contain adequate separate work elements to measure their progress and
integration with services installations
–– allocate specific dates for specialist subcontract works, including supply of
information, site operations, testing and commissioning
–– accommodate public utilities, etc.
• Agree a procedure for the contractor to inform the architect of information
required in addition to any shown on the Information Release Schedule. This
is likely to involve a contractor’s schedule of information required, which
must relate to their works programme and must be kept up to date and
regularly reviewed. It should include information, data, drawings, etc. to be
supplied by the contractor/specialist subcontractors to the architect/design
team.
• Review in detail the particular provisions in the Building Contract
concerning site access, organisation, facilities, restrictions, services, etc. to
ensure that no queries remain outstanding.
• Quality control is the contractor’s responsibility. Remind the contractor of
the contractual duties to supervise, of your duties to inspect, and the site
inspectorate’s duties in connection with the works. Clarify what standards,
quality of work and management are required during the execution of the
works.
• Numerous other matters may need special coverage, e.g.:
–– check whether immediate action may be needed by the contractor over
specialist subcontractors and suppliers
–– emphasise that drawings, data, etc. received from the contractor or
specialist subcontractors will be inspected by the architect/design team
(not approved), and will remain the responsibility of the originator
–– review outstanding requirements for information to or from the contractor
in connection with specialist works
–– clarify that the contractor is responsible for coordinating the performance
of specialist works and for their workmanship and materials, for providing
specialists with working facilities and for coordinating site dimensions and
tolerances.
• The contractor must also provide for competent testing and commissioning
of services as set out in the Building Contract documents, and should be
reminded that the time allocated for commissioning is not a contingency
period for the main contract works.
• The contractor must obtain the architect’s written consent before subletting
any work.
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