He said he submitted EMT.
I'm curious if it was approved, rejected or ignored
It was approved
He said he submitted EMT.
I'm curious if it was approved, rejected or ignored
Don't take this wrong but, you don't deal with many large jobs do you. As Cd starts off with "if the owner accepts a credit" this is very common and many times part of run of the mill VEing. The engineers design is not set in stone if the owner (the engineers customer) is trying to save money or in this case, the design was not followed. The owner can accept the credit if they choose to or they can be stuborn and make the contractors give them what they wanted.
The engineer / designer really has no interest in the credit besides making sure the customer is satisfied.
Roger
Well no I don't do many large jobs, but I do jobs that have been designed by engineers. Most of time for customers I already know. For what ever reasons they have had engineer drawn plans, when asking for price they may get 2 prices from me. One is per the design specifications, the other is for my design specifications that I would have done in absence of any other plans. Guess which plan usually gets installed. What is engineers liability? Probably none if not done to his specifications. What is my liability? Likely same whether I installed to engineers plan or not. If something goes terribly wrong everyone involved in this project will be subjected to being blamed for something.
Don't take this wrong but, you don't deal with many large jobs do you. As Cd starts off with "if the owner accepts a credit" this is very common and many times part of run of the mill VEing. The engineers design is not set in stone if the owner (the engineers customer) is trying to save money or in this case, the design was not followed. The owner can accept the credit if they choose to or they can be stuborn and make the contractors give them what they wanted.
The engineer / designer really has no interest in the credit besides making sure the customer is satisfied.
Roger
I have completed a project that called out on plans for conduit. We submitted on EMT and RMC, used RMC where it specifically called out for it. but where plans stated conduit not RMC we used EMT. Inspector has signed off that installations meet NEC requirements. Engineer is looking for a credit for area where we used EMT. Thoughts?
If you didn't know before you submitted the bid, you should have sent an RFI. If you assumed, but put it in your clarifications why would you give a credit?
Pretty much sums up the thread.Sloppy all around.
But guess who gets to take it in the shorts?
I have completed a project that called out on plans for conduit. We submitted on EMT and RMC, used RMC where it specifically called out for it. but where plans stated conduit not RMC we used EMT. Inspector has signed off that installations meet NEC requirements. Engineer is looking for a credit for area where we used EMT. Thoughts?
And I really don't understand what you are trying to say. I consider jobs less than 250K small jobs, 250 to 700K decent size jobs and jobs above that large. (some others may consider these numbers small) On a recent job my first wire PO included 129 one thousand foot spools of 500 KCMIL.
With that said, I sit in meetings where designs are disscussed and savings are negotiated on a regular basis. If the owner is offered a savings and the option is not detrimental to the product, the engineer of record will do a change to the design and all is good.
If the designer and the customer think the contractor has not followed the intent of the contract documents they can ask for a credit and then if it is contested things go to arbitration ond further up the road.(see John Bonamassa and Eric Clapton)
Roger
I am saying that my large jobs are small jobs to you. There are still some similarities just on a different scale and the work and money is not split as many ways. Projects still in general have services, feeders, branch circuits, utilization equipment, etc. Engineering is still done on some of those smaller projects.
Well, no, not exactly. If the planner/engineer/etc stray from the common meanings of trade language, they can't get upset when the trade doesn't do what they want. "Strut" was mentioned earlier. How many people don't assume that it means Unistrut/Kindorf/similar? Ever seen "tubing" on a plan? I've seen EMT (on the "conduit" plan, wasn't the "tubing" plan), but not "all wires must be in tubing".
What we have here from the beginning is either a failure of an Engineer to clearly specify his job, or a failure of tha Contractor to properly review his construction documents. The code has nothing to do with it.
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It was approved
If it was approved and no credit was asked for it then, you can safely tell the engineer to take a hike, or the legal equivalent of it.:lol:
Approving an item in a submittal does not mean you can use the product in a way that varies from the specifications.
We often submit SER and NM because we use those for temps, the approval of the submittal does not mean we can use NM and SER for everything on the job.
If it was approved and no credit was asked for it then, you can safely tell the engineer to take a hike, or the legal equivalent of it.:lol:
If it was submitted AFTER you were awarded the Contract, you should have offered some credit. (You can still do that. It is never too late to do the right thing.....)
It was approved
Well now...there's a tidbit of info that took 8 pages to get.
So what do you think the Engineer's beef is?
Or is there some other tidbit you're not sharing, like say....a spec?