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 (concept design)
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 and co-
• Review the design, costing and programme with the consultants
Stage 4 | Documentation and procurement
4.1 Prepare documentation sufficient for local authority submission:
• Co-
• Primary co-
• Prepare specifications for the works
• Review the costing and programme with the consultants
• Obtain the client's authority and submit documents for approval
4.2 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
• Administer the building contract
• Give possession of the site to the contractor
• Issue construction documentation
• Initiate and/or check sub-
• 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 contract, or fulfill 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
• Facilitate the project close-
• Documentation to effect completion, handover and operation of the project
• After the contractor's obligations with respect to the building contract are fulfilled,
• The architectural professional shall issue the certificates related to contract completion
• Provide the client with as-
• Undertakings by the contractor and sub-
The essential functions of each work stage relevant to the service are identified herein as: