This month, I’m extending my discussion from last month’s column on contract documents that consulting engineers produce for construction jobs. This series also builds off my December feature article on integrated project delivery (IPD) and can be applied to the other three other project delivery methods: design-bid-build, construction management, and design-build.
You could say I’m on a mission to encourage design engineers to “break the mold” on how they separate portions of equipment specification, e.g., chiller schedule sheet, automatic control sequence of operation with system flow diagram, and standard piping details with contract drawing documents. In addition, the commissioning functional performance test (FPT) narrative will be found in another section of the contract specification manual.