Description
Description: Even the best prepared construction documents may not be followed exactly, while contractors are executing the work of a project. Almost no projects are built exactly as designed. There are too many people involved, too much time elapses in the course of a project, in which people have time to consider past decisions, and there are too many actually good reasons to make changes to the work. When inevitable changes happen in the construction of the project, the terms of the contract for the work will also change. These will often be changes in the contract sum and the contract price. The better the systems in place to handle such changes and issues, the more smoothly the project will progress. This course will examine the primary ways for architects to process construction changes.
Learning Objective 1:
Examine the principal means and documents used to track and implement changes during construction projects.
Learning Objective 2:
Recognize what an architect should and should not do on a job site.
Learning Objective 3:
Explore the numerous reasons changes occur during projects.
Learning Objective 4:
Differentiate between an architect’s supplemental instructions, change orders, and construction change directives.