Emaler is exactly correct the guy who missed this one on the specs will get the job.
I see this in something like out of ever twenty sets of plans I bid, and its usually part of some goofball engineer?s boiler plate at best or the GC intentionally snuck it in at worst. It?s one of those general conditions GCs would love to sneak into your scope like dumpsters and toilets.
Let me make this as clear as I can? AVOID getting hooked with consumption even if it cost?s you the job. It?s is a major gotcha that will make you cry like a baby. On a 25k sqft grocery store at 10 cents a KWH plus demand this consumption charge will run from $30,000 to $60,000 a month (depending on the time of year), once the coolers are up and running. For every month that job runs over, you get to foot the electric bill, and when is the last time you saw a job completed on schedule? Even if there were a small job do you really want to pay for the GC to run the AC non-stop for his climate control exercises?
Bid the job and explicitly exclude the consumption charges.
I see this in something like out of ever twenty sets of plans I bid, and its usually part of some goofball engineer?s boiler plate at best or the GC intentionally snuck it in at worst. It?s one of those general conditions GCs would love to sneak into your scope like dumpsters and toilets.
Let me make this as clear as I can? AVOID getting hooked with consumption even if it cost?s you the job. It?s is a major gotcha that will make you cry like a baby. On a 25k sqft grocery store at 10 cents a KWH plus demand this consumption charge will run from $30,000 to $60,000 a month (depending on the time of year), once the coolers are up and running. For every month that job runs over, you get to foot the electric bill, and when is the last time you saw a job completed on schedule? Even if there were a small job do you really want to pay for the GC to run the AC non-stop for his climate control exercises?
Bid the job and explicitly exclude the consumption charges.
