What do consulting engineers do?

Consulting engineer: refers to the management engineer engaged in various consulting activities.

Generally speaking, consulting engineers should have skilled professional skills and management knowledge, rich practical work experience, extensive social contacts and good social reputation. Consulting engineers can provide various forms and contents of consulting services for owners, contractors and other parties at all stages of engineering construction.

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The role of consulting engineer

1, the consulting engineer is a designer.

In order to maintain the continuity of the project, in the international bidding project, when the owner chooses the designer, the principle is to comprehensively consider with the construction supervision, and try to find the same consulting engineer to be responsible for the design and construction supervision, so as to avoid the phenomenon that the design and supervision shirk their responsibilities in the future.

2. The consulting engineer is the construction supervisor.

Consulting engineers track safety, quality, progress and cost in construction, control the contractor's construction behavior and ensure the realization of the overall goal. Project payment control is an important means for consulting engineers to manage contracts. He has the right and responsibility to inspect and evaluate the certificates issued during construction and final payment.

The consulting engineer is a quasi-arbitrator.

When the owner and the contractor disagree, first of all, the party with different opinions will record the dispute in writing to the consulting engineer and ask for quasi-arbitration decision. Consulting engineers usually make quasi-arbitration decisions on related disputes after listening to the opinions of their legal advisers.

4. The consulting engineer is the agent of the owner.

Consulting engineer is hired by the owner to supervise and manage the project construction, and is a project manager who manages the project for the owner.

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