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MAY 15 1978

Mayor and Council May 10th, 1978 is to use one of the Works Inspectors. However, this alternative
{In Committee) also is not entirely suitable because of the Yorks Inspectors
lack of knowledge of the building requirenents.

P.E. Peters, P. Eng.,

City Engineer The architect has estimated that his total fee for full

time inspection would be approximately $8,006.00. In view of

the fact that we could spend a substantial portion of that in any

. case for the inspections which are required to be made, I feel that
$8,000.00 is a small price to pay for the security of having the
architect responsible for the whole contract. It is not too late

It has come to my attention that the previous engineer to amend the terms of the agreement with the architect or to pre-

comitted the City to inspection of construction of the addition pare a secondary agreement for inspection during construction.

to the Senior Citizens Centre. In reading through the agreement, .

I find that our inspection does not include structural inspection Do, RECOMMENDATION

or electrical or mechanical inspection which must of necessity

be done by the architect's engineers on call from the Municipality. . I therefore would recommend that Council in Comittee

approve the use of the architect for inspection services for this
I personally am not convinced that inspection by our project.
cwn forces is the best way to go on this project. .To support .
my concerns I have the following arguments:

Supervision of Construction for
Senior Citizens Addition

i. The agreement calls for the architect and his : »/]

engineers to be paid at hourly rates for each time that it is :

necessary to call them out to inspect a portion of the work.

The cost of these necessary inspections will soon add up toa : . -
substantial portion of the total fee which the architect would ' F.E. Peters, PB. Eng.,
charge for full time inspection based on his standard percentage City Engineer.

of the cost of the project.

2. Recording to the terms of the architect's agreement
with the City, any liability or legal action arising out of the
architectural, mechanical, or electrical inspection ef the work’
is limited only to those specific areas for which the client has
requested the architect or consultant engineer to inspect. This
Means that the onus is on the City to call for the inspection at
every critical point or accept the liability itself.

3. The service provided by the architect under full
time inscection includes a substantial amount of discussion with
the contractor on his techniques and procedures. It also includes
hecking of his shop drawings, correction of architectural drawings,
and the issuing of change-ordezs when necessary. These matters
take a considerable amount of time and it is likely that we would
be requesting the architect to do these for us in any case at an
hourly rate.

4. We are presently without a Plumbing Inspector who
is off work recovering from an accident. The building inspection
staff is down to two people. During the summer months vacaticn
time will cut further into the amount of inspection time available.
I would therefore be most reluctant to allow the building. inspection
Gepartment to undertake the inspections of this job. The alternative

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