Preparation of Construction Documents: Fid-Bau Portal

Preparation of Construction Documents

Garg, Ajay / Dewan, Anil

After completing detailed drawings, next phase is construction. Here the contractors are engaged; however, some documents are required for the contractor to understand before he/she gives his/her rates and quotation. It is this set of construction documents. Construction documents provides the general and supplementary conditions, owner’s special requirements, drawings, specifications, details, change orders and other documents prepared by the designer or his/her consultants. It describes the scope, type and quality of materials, supplies, equipment, systems and other elements required to construct a project and accepted by the promoter. For each and every construction activity like civil construction, electrical and power, plumbing and sanitary, firefighting, air conditioning, information technology, door windows and MGPS, a separate contractor may have to be engaged. Therefore, each of these contractors may require a separate set of construction documents relating to their activity. Generally, hospital construction documents contain the documents like general information about the hospital project, construction contract agreement, scope of work (SOW), construction schedule, general conditions, special conditions, specifications, bill of quantities, cost estimate, drawings and other required documents. Based on these documents the bidders are invoted and the contract is finalised and work allotted.