Did you know? CASE has tools and practice guidelines to help firms deal with a wide variety of business scenarios that structural engineering firms face daily. So whether your firm needs to establish a new Quality Assurance Program, update its risk management program, keep track of the skills their young engineers are learning at each level of experience, or need a sample contract document – CASE has the tools you need!
Check out the most popular CASE tools and guidelines:
- CASE 962-D – A Guideline Addressing Coordination and Completeness of Structural Construction Documents (2020). Since the mid-1990s, owners, contractors, and design professionals have expressed concern about the level of quality of structural construction documents. They have observed that the quality of these documents has deteriorated, resulting, at times, in poorly coordinated and incomplete design drawings. Inadequate and/or incomplete design drawings often result in inaccurate competitive bids; delays in schedule; a multiplicity of requests for information (RFIs), change orders, and revision costs; increased project costs; and a general dissatisfaction with the project. The Council of American Structural Engineers (CASE) has prepared this Guideline to address these concerns. This book discusses the purpose of the guideline, the background behind the issues, the important aspects of design relationships, communication, coordination and completeness, guidance for dimensioning of structural drawings, effects of various project delivery systems, document revisions, and closes with recommendations for development and application of quality management procedures. In addition, the Guideline includes Drawing Review Checklist.
- CASE Agreement #6 – An Agreement between Client and Structural Engineer for a Structural Condition Assessment. The purpose of this document is to provide a sample Agreement for structural engineers to use when providing a structural condition assessment directly to a client. For example, this may be required for upgrading the structure for an increase in imposed loads; for damage from fire, wind, or earthquake; for seismic retrofitting; for historic preservation or change in occupancy; or for adding new structures upon or adjacent to an existing structure.
- CASE #2 – An Agreement Between Client and Structural Engineer of Record for Professional Services. This agreement form may be used when the client, e.g., owner, contractor developer, etc., wishes to retain the Structural Engineer of Record directly. The contract contains an easy-to-understand matrix of services that simplify the “what is included and what is not” questions in negotiations with a prospective client. This agreement may also be used with a client who is an architect when the architect-owner agreement is not an AIA agreement.
You can purchase these and the other Risk Management Tools at www.acec.org/bookstore.