The most important documents for a successful construction project are the Plans and Specifications for the project being built or renovated. Without them you have no guidelines on how the work is to take place or nothing to tell you the minimum acceptable criteria for the materials to be included in the project.
Without a decent set of plans and specifications the bidders on a project cannot bid effectively. The owner that owns the project cannot control the integrity of his finished product. The plans and specifications are placed to guide everybody to what is the expected quality for materials and details of what is expected to be in the construction.
The subject concerning plans and specifications is very important and one short message does not do justice to the subject so I will be revisiting this subject as times goes by.
When you bid a project you need to examine the plans very thoroughly to make sure that the Architect or draftsman does not inadvertently place a detail concerning your phase of the project on a page where logically it should not be depicted.
The same advice is applicable to the specifications. Sometimes your particular trade may also be depicted in another section of the specifications.
An example is Gyp Board or Drywall; I have seen some projects where sealing or paint preparation might be depicted as part of the drywall installation portion. Arguably this work should be under the paint section (I guess this depends upon what part of the country you are from). The short story is; if the specifications state that it is the Drywall company’s responsibility, the Drywall company needs to expect to do the work.
When you submit your bid; you need to be very careful about identifying the scope of work that you are including in your bid! Misunderstandings have caused more companies to go broke than almost everything!
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