Plan of Work

Multi-Disciplinary Services
Roland Phillips

July 2008
Code: 61856
ISBN: 9781859461952
96 pp
Paperback
£40.00

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Plan of Work: Multi-Disciplinary Services is the new edition of the guide to the RIBA Outline Plan of Work 2007, the de facto standard project framework used by the construction industry. Now updated to reflect current procurement practice and the consequences of better risk management, this guide describes how the different parties in the contemporary multi-disciplinary team can work together effectively to complete work stages.

It considers the Client's role and identifies the parties to the multi-disciplinary team as the Lead Consultant, CDM Co-ordinator, Cost Consultant, Design Leader, Architect, Structural Engineer and Services Engineer. Set out in a series of easy-to-use tables, the multi-disciplinary team's typical responsibilities and tasks are outlined in Part 1 along the standard or Model procurement route. Similar tables outline variant activity schedules for design and build contracts for, in Part 2, the Client's team preparing Employer's Requirements and, in Part 3, the contractors' designers preparing Contractor's Proposals. Part 4 includes simple but nonetheless vitally important new schedules for initial occupation services and post-occupation evaluation – work stages L2 and L3.

In effect, these tables comprise a comprehensive set of services schedules which may be used safely to define each consultant's responsibilities in their respective appointment documents and ensure that no activity responsibility is overlooked.

In updating this new edition to suit contemporary building procurement routes, Plan of Work: Multi-Disciplinary Services builds on its well-established reputation for providing a flexible model for preparing designs with a cost plan and an invaluable roadmap for monitoring their construction.