On the Responsibilities of Architects and Engineers and Their Clients in Federal Facilities Development (1994) / Chapter Skim
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services to clients. Firms of architects and engineers that provide professional services related to the design and construction of buildings and other facilities are commonly referred to as A&Es.
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The Council, formerly the Federal Construction Council, is a continuing activity of the National Research Council. The Federal Facilities Council's purpose is to promote cooperation among federal agencies and between such agencies and other, elements of the building community that construct and manage facilities, addressing technical issues of mutual concern.
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The challenges of determining what the requirements ought to be, stating them clearly, and ensuring that they are met extend throughout the facility development process, from initial project planning an(l facility programming, through design and construction, into occupancy. The current study focuses!
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of care for A&E designers. TEAMWO RK AND RE S P ONS I B I Ll TY The study committee concluded that problems of the sort cited in this stutly by government agency officials and the A&E community are generally the result of faults in the staff and procedures of both A&E firms and contracting agencies.
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The study committee found that the federal process for procuring A&E services is often more complex awl timeconsuming, requires more fo~ma1t document preparation, and is more prone to fostering adtrersana1t relationships among the participants in facility development than procedures used for comparable projects in the private sector. The complexity ant!
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Neither the firm nor the agency gains. A&E firms sometimes fail to appreciate that government agencies must conform to many policies, regulations, and legislative concerns that clo not affect the private sector and that these requirements add time to the process.
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At all four levels, realistic, uniform, exper~ence-based measures arid of A&E performance would be a valuable management too! that could be used by both ARE firms and government agencies to improve planning and design management.
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possibly outside the range of adequate performance. Agencies of the FFC should convene professional organizations such as the American Institute of Architects, American Consulting Engineers Council, the Associated General Contractors, and others to work with the agencies to develop a study design, collect data on project development, and analyze that data to develop meaningful measures and benchmarks of A&E performance.
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Guideline 5. Conventional design-bid-buil:ct projects that experience construction changes that increase costs more than 10 percent over construction contract award value should be thoroughly reviewed.
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a reasonable basis for the agency and the A&E firm to question whether their own performance on such projects is adequate.
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