Important Terms In Construction Project

Contract documents

A contract for construction is a legal agreement between the owner and a constructor. It is a very important document which binds a contractor to construct and the owner to pay. It describes the details of the works, the specifications to be followed, mode of payments to be made, the duty and authority of the owner or contractor. It comprises a number of documents which are:

1. Contract drawings: which show the plan, elevation, sections of relevant structural and architectural elements.

2. Specifications: which describes in word the construction to be done.

3. Bill of quantities, which furnishes the measures each of the items to be done

Opening the tender

Public opening of tenders is good and shoud be done for all international tenders. A general practice is to open all the tenders at the same time by the employer or his representative in the presence of the consultante tenderers. The tenders are then handed over to the consultant for reporting. The engineer is supposed to position them on the basis of the total sum.

Mistakes in tenders can arise innocently or maybe intentionally done by crooked tenderers. To deal with an innocent mistake the consulting for reporting.

Details of construction

when the project receives a green signal from the client it becomes necessary to find out a rough cost estimate from the schematic drawings prepared for the project. The detailed cost analysis is done at a later date when the working drawings are almost ready. The rough cost estimate is fair enough to predict cost of the project within a certain persentage. Our

In order to reach the final costing every item of work has to be analysed to evaluate cost of material at and labour separately and and then overhead charges and profits are to be added at in order to its derermine the costing or a chargeable rate for the item.