I'm mad!!!!!

[lady sparks lover]

Re: I'm mad!!!!!

Originally posted by hassaf:
We don't do any residential work, it's strictly commercial and industrial. But, you're right about not basing the engineering fee only on construction cost. If the job needs more engineering, then it's more. For example, when doing power, if the job has more than one voltage, 480 and 208, or if there is an emergency system, then suddenly it's more things that you deal with. When we say 5%-6%, we only talking about a normal project (like educational building modernization, commercial type buildings, maybe T.I's, and so forth), and not necessarily what you're talking about.

It would seem that we might agree that every job might be different, and the fee could go to up to 12%, but i think this is occasionally, and not normally.

Agreed!!! The overall design fee, I would say 12-12% is just way too much. About 4-8% would be about fine for the DESIGN FEE, however when you are given only 9% of that DESIGN FEE, it's difficult to put much thought into that.

I digress...

[ May 17, 2004, 12:41 PM: Message edited by: lady sparks lover ]