How is the contract written? Is your firm bound to the water supply whether it was known to you at the time or not? Does your contract or proposal state that the prices is based on a minimum available water supply? As a regular practice do you try to determine or go back to previous projects off the same water system to determine what the pressure might be?
In California, this gets into issues of contracting law, best and accepted practices, and issues of who knew what when and when should they have known it. In any case, the GC isn't likely the responsible party, it's the owner. What pressure did you assume and what was it based on? Steve Leyton -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott A Futrell Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 2:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Adequate water supply More information please. Who gave who flow test and design criteria? Scott (763) 425-1001 Office (612) 759-5556 Cell -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Johnson Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 4:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Adequate water supply At what point does anyone think the owner/general contractor should be liable for a change order for the increased pipe size due to lack of adequate water for the calculations of the sprinkler system? Steve _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
