Saturday, July 25, 2009

GMP Consultant = Consultant Engineer ?

I had this peculiar encounter with a bunch of consultant engineer (M&E and C&S), plus an architect. I have submmited a conceptual layout on the location for dainages and separate them between those to be directed to a sewerage system and another to a waste treatment sump (as required by Dept. of Environment).

Seems this is not enough.... They want me to provide the draine slopes, the pipe details (size and materials), exact X-Y positions of the drain holes and presented in an auto-cad drawing with scale 1:200!

If I'm able to do all these, I might as well assume the position of an M&E consultant and charge a higher fee !

Actually, GMP Consultants provide only the conceptual design of the facilities and utilities, whereas the Consultant Engineers provide technical and engineering input. For example, a GMP consultant provide the HVAC requirements specifications, but the engineers will calculate and size the required equipments and provide the technical drawings for construction.
Yes, that's how we can work as a better team..!

Got it...??

AJ

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