Back to what Todd said: if you insert a condition in your proposals, whether it is for design only or design/build services, that your fee is based on the availability of CAD base drawings, then at the very least when an A/E team member tries to put the screws to you, there's at least a fall-back to request (demand) additional fee. We do more than half of our work as members of the A/E and I've never heard of architects or engineers trying to charge one another during design development.
Because it's the architect's responsibility to coordinate and conform the work of all the disciplines so that drafting standards, insertion points, sheet numbering, layering, etc., etc., etc. can all be managed and kept to a reasonable level of cross compatibility for the project. The notion that a design professional has some sort of additional liability if they let the sprinkie use their files is ridiculous; all they have to do is state (as most responsible ones do) that the use of said files is at the third party's own risk. As tempting as it is, I've never managed the energy to take another firm's structural design and re-sell it to a client that might coincidentally be designing an identical high school ... Steve Leyton PROTECTION DESIGN & CONSULTING -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 6:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Corps of Engineers Grv'd Cplg Spec I'm with you Travis. Out here in California architects have an awful habit of requiring a fee for a CD-Rom of CAD files. And I can't even begin to explain the difficulty I had in getting CAD files from Disney on a project there. Perhaps we can alert the FBI? The sprinkler cops? It's a crime wave. PARSLEY CONSULTING Ken Wagoner, SET 760.745.6181 voice 760.745.0537 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> e-mail www.ParsleyConsulting.com <http://www.ParsleyConsulting.com> website _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
