The standard services offered by Insite are in accordance with the standard client architect agreement as published by SACAP a brief synopsis of this follows:
STAGE 1: INCEPTION
Receive, appraise and report on the client’s requirements with regard to:
- the client’s brief
- the site and rights and constraints
- budgetary constraints
- the need for consultants
- project programme
- methods of contracting
STAGE 2: CONCEPT AND VIABILITY
- Prepare an initial design and advise on:
- the intended space provisions and planning relationships
- proposed materials and intended building services
- the technical and functional characteristics of the design
- Check for conformity of the concept with the rights to the use of the land
- Review the anticipated costs of the project
- Review the project programme
STAGE 3: DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
- Confirm the scope and complexity
- Review the design and consult with local and statutory authorities
- Develop the design, construction system, materials and components
- Incorporate all services and the work of consultants
- Review the design, costing and programme with the consultants
STAGE 4: DOCUMENTATION AND PROCUREMENT
- Prepare documentation sufficient for local authority submission:
- co-ordinate technical documentation with the consultants and complete primary co-ordination
- prepare specifications for the works
- review the costing and programme with the consultants
- obtain the client’s authority and submit documents for approval
- Complete construction documentation and proceed to call for tenders:
- obtain the client’s authority to prepare documents to procure offers for the execution of the works
- obtain offers for the execution of the works
- evaluate offers and recommend on the award of the building contract
- prepare the contract documentation (and arrange the signing of the building contract)
STAGE 5: CONSTRUCTION
- Contract administration:
- hand over the site to the contractor
- issue construction documentation
- initiate and/or check sub-contract design and documentation as appropriate
- inspect the works for conformity to the contract documentation
- administer and perform the duties and obligations assigned to the principal agent in the JBCC building agreements, or fulfil the obligations provided for in other forms of contract
- issue the certificate of practical completion
- assist the client to obtain the occupation certificate
STAGE 6: CLOSE OUT
- Fulfill and complete the project close-out including the preparation of the necessary documentation to facilitate the effective completion, handover and operation of the project
- After the contractor’s obligations with respect to the building contract are fulfilled, the architect shall issue the certificate related to contract completion
- Provide the client with as-built drawings and relevant technical and contractual undertakings by the contractor and sub-contractors
