Civil Engineering Reference
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It is now a world-wide organization, with RICS Scotland being one of the four UK
regional divisions. The RICS produces a suite of documents for consultancy appoint-
ments. his consists of the core appointment (either the standard form of consultant's
appointment or the short form of consultant's appointment, in each case with a sep-
arate version for use in Scotland) along with a standard schedule of services relevant
to the appropriate discipline, i.e. building surveyor services, CDM co-ordinator ser-
vices, employer's agent services, project manager services, project monitor services,
and quantity surveyor services.
The various schedules of service mentioned above illustrate that the role of the
charteredsurveyorinaprojectmaynotbelimitedtothetraditional,albeitstill
essential, role of quantity surveyor, but has expanded into other areas such as project
management.
The traditional principal role of the quantity surveyor is to value the work carried
out by the contractor, and not to inspect that work for quality (
(Sutcliffe
v.
Chippendale
& Edmondson
(1982)). This was clarified in the case of
Dhamija
v.
Sunningdale
Joineries and Others
(2010) in which Coulson J held that a quantity surveyor is
concerned with quantities, not the quality of the work, and that it was for the
architect to advise the quantity surveyor, and not for the quantity surveyor to see for
himself, any defective work which should be excluded from the valuation.
1.3.4 Engineer
Historically, contracts for the construction of infrastructure such as roads, tunnels,
railways or bridges, where the design process is led by the civil engineer rather than
the architect, have generally been known as engineering contracts (as opposed to
contracts for 'buildings'). In a traditional engineering contract, the engineer normally
undertakes design responsibility and carries out a similar administrative role to
that of the architect under a building contract, such as the certification of payments
and of completion. The relevant UK professional organization for civil engineers
is the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). There are also business associations for
the consultancy and engineering industry such as the Association for Consultancy
andEngineering(ACE),whichinturnisrepresentedontheEuropeanFederationof
Engineering Consultancy Associations (EFCA) and the International Federation of
Consulting Engineers, or Fédération Internationale des Ingénieurs-Conseils (FIDIC).
The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) is a representative asso-
ciationfortheUKcivilengineeringcontractors.heCECAinScotlandrepresents
over 100 civil engineering contractors, ranging in size from small rural contractors to
multinationals.
While civil engineers are concerned primarily with structures and the physical
environment, mechanical engineers (almost invariably conjoined with electrical engi-
neers and often referred to in that combined role as building services consultants) are
responsibleforthemechanicalandelectricalsystemsinabuilding.heprofessional
institution in the UK for mechanical engineers is the Institution of Mechanical Engi-
neers (IMechE), while the equivalent body for electrical engineers is the Institution
of Engineering and Technology (IET) which was formed in 2006 by the merger of the
