ᐅ Uneven screed – defect remediation refused

This is a standard four-eyes principle and common practice everywhere. A structural engineer designs/calculates, and a different reviewing structural engineer approves it. An architect plans, and another expert/assessor approves it. Both can do the same tasks but are responsible for different phases to ensure that no one approves what they have designed themselves.

Best regards
Dirk Grafe

Dirk was faster

Lexmaul79 schrieb:

And yes, I still don’t understand the point of this – it has nothing to do with the number of posts or the number of posts I have read. You can certainly still present factual arguments – so why turn unconstructive now?

I don’t see where I have become unconstructive? Just because I reminded you that you have written/read many posts with varying content and, admittedly, I assumed that your neurons are working? There is certainly enough information about building contracts in this forum, with very different user experiences.

Best regards, Bauexperte

@Dirk:

A structural engineer for inspections is common in large construction projects – but in single-family home construction, you’ll rarely find one. The same goes for the “four-eyes principle” in architect-led projects – of course, you CAN do it and it certainly doesn’t hurt, except that it costs money. However, it is not a standard practice, and even experts tell you that having an independent expert involved throughout all phases of the construction process is usually unnecessary (I asked two experts beforehand).

But to present the four-eyes principle as the standard? Sorry, that is not reality…

@Bauexperte: I didn’t accuse you of being unprofessional either; it was meant with a wink because you said you couldn’t justify it any further objectively.

This forum mostly involves general contractors or construction management contracts about 90% of the time, where having an independent expert ALWAYS makes sense – but in architect-led projects, you practically never hear about that (in terms of construction supervision).

Lexmaul79 schrieb:

A structural engineer for inspections is common in large construction projects – but in single-family home construction, you rarely find one.

That’s correct; we are currently dealing with one of these special cases.

Lexmaul79 schrieb:

@Bauexperte: I didn’t accuse you of being unprofessional; it was meant with a wink because you said you couldn’t justify it any further objectively.

It read differently to me, so I asked. Objective arguments ... just the fact that lead architects oversee their own work should be reason enough.

Lexmaul79 schrieb:

This forum mostly deals with general contractors or construction management contracts in about 90% of cases, where an expert always makes sense – but you hardly ever hear of one in architect-led projects (in terms of construction supervision).

If you take a look at the Architects’ Association of NRW, you’ll see there are quite a few legal disputes involving architects. This isn’t surprising since people aren’t robots and errors inevitably happen.

I stand by my view – in my experience, having an expert always makes sense, regardless of who the contractor is. When the architect manages the contract, it doesn’t even incur additional costs, as the service phases are simply allocated accordingly.

Best regards, Bauexperte

All good – everyone is entitled to their opinion. For the reasons mentioned above, I do not share it.

Lexmaul79 schrieb:
All good – everyone is entitled to their opinion. I don’t share it for the reasons mentioned above.

I do.