Case Study Questions Flashcards
What is a Right of Light?
History behind……
Why do you have social units within a development?
Planning under the S106 agreement
How do you consider a contractors references?
Financial references - dunham and bradstreet - EXPAND ON THIS
How would you ensure that the contractor would be capable to undertake the works?
Turnover / staffing levels etc.
Extra 8 units - was there a development appraisal? What is a development appraisal?
Development appraisal involves research into constraints and opportunities evolving from the location, legal and planning aspects of potential sites as well as their physical characteristics.
This can be a complex process, and independent client advisers may be required by the client to supplement in-house expertise and assist research and evaluation.
What would be the financial breakdown for undertaking the works - risk vs reward for the additional floor?
Costs for undertaking the works - upto the point of being stopped. Costs for consultants - transfer slab - additional concrete for the extra over section of lift overrun and then demolition works.
Are there insurances to cover against not getting a planning permission.
Right of light insurance. This would have to be taken out prior to the works commencing.
What is an 18m threshold?
- Latest Reg - cladding has to be non combustible over the height of 18m. Firefighters believe this should be for all cladding.
- A fire fighting lift has to be put in place if over 18m also. - Lightning protection - Insurance / warranty providers / mortgage providers may ask for this if there are no buildings in close proximity of this height.
- Sprinklers are also required - however these were already implemented on this project.
What information did you need to include in a tender package of information?
Invitation to Tender, instructions to tenderer - programme and return date. Employers Requirements, Contractors requirements, attendances, scope of works, drawings and specification, health and safety information and either a BoQ or CSA.
How did you decide the contractual route for each package?
The options were Galliard bespoke standard contract, JCT 2011 with desgn portion or JCT 2011 D&B. Based on the information available and allocation of risk, the specialist design elements would fall with the contractors who were the specialists as easier for them to manage this risk.
What is a Galliard Standard contract?
This is a bespoke contract produced by Galliard.
If a tender is received a day after the final date what do you do? Even an hour late?
Late tenders should certainly not be
considered for public procurement projects. Private
clients should be advised which tenders were late and
if they wish them to still be considered then they must
provide explicit instruction to do so
Please clarify how you went about analysing the tender?
1) Checking for errors and conflicts such as:
• obvious errors in programme dates
• any qualifications that render the tender null and
void; and
• conflicts of interest (e.g. review proposed key
subcontractors).
2)Raising tender queries and conflicts in
information to ensure tenders are submitted on a like for like basis.
3) Equalisation/normalisation process: There are a number of methods and techniques at the
disposal of the quantity surveyor to normalise the
tender:
a) use an average of the submitted costs
b) use the highest price from the tender returns; or
c) use the cost plan allowance for that particular
element.
You mention you engaged and instructed the frame subcontractor with a change of design for the transfer slab works? Were they already in contract? What process did you go through to instruct the change?
Yes the frame contractor was already in contract. The process to instruct the change was to be in dialogue with the contractor throughout to advise them that there could be a change and if required their lead in times. Also to agree that their rates would be pro-rata’d against their existing contract rates. The subcontractor was instructed against their existing contract. Initially for the transfer slab and then a further instruction for any requirements with the additional floor.
Does a subcontractor have to accept an instruction?
The 2011 Standard Building Contract Without Quantities says at 3.10.1,
“Where an instruction requires a Variation of the type referred to in 5.1.2, the Contractor need not comply to the extent that he notifies a reasonable objection to it to the Architect/Contract Administrator”.
Clause 5.1 of the contract is broken into two parts.
5.1.1 deals with what you might expect a variation to be –
the alteration or modification of the design, quality or quantity of the Works including changes to any work, alterations of the kind or standard of materials or goods and the removal from site of work or materials which are not in themselves defective. Variations of this kind, under 5.1.1, do not carry a right of reasonable objection.
It is 5.1.2 which carries the right of reasonable objection and, in broad terms, relates to the Employer making changes to access to site, limitations of working space, limitations of working hours and changes to the specific order of the works.
