Architectural/Inspection Services During Construction Phase Sample Clauses

Architectural/Inspection Services During Construction Phase. During Construction Phase, ARCHITECT shall perform the following services by the ARCHITECT’s design office staff and qualified design professionals: 1. Consult with and advise CITY and act as its representative. All of CITY’s instructions to Contractor(s) will be issued through ARCHITECT who will have authority to act on behalf of CITY except as otherwise provided in writing. 2. Make periodic visits to the site to observe as an experienced and qualified design professional the progress and quality of the executed work and to determine, in general, if the work is proceeding in accordance with the Contract Documents. ARCHITECT shall not be required to make exhaustive or continuous on-site inspections to check the quality or quantity of such work unless provided for in the Work Order. ARCHITECT shall not be responsible for the means, methods, techniques, sequences or procedures of construction selected by Contractor(s) or the safety precautions and programs incident to the work of Contractor(s) during such visits and keep CITY informed of the progress of the work, shall endeavor to guard CITY against defects and deficiencies in the work of Contractor(s), disapprove or reject work as failing to conform to the Contract Documents, and endeavor to achieve expeditious correction of such deficiencies. 3. Review and approve Shop Drawings and samples, the results of tests and inspections and other data which any Contractor is required to submit, for conformance with the design concept and operational requirements of each Project and compliance with the information given in the Contract Documents; determine the acceptability of substitute materials and equipment proposed by Contractor(s); and receive and review (for general content as required by the Specifications) maintenance and operating instructions, schedules, guarantees, bonds and certificates of inspection which are to be assembled by Contractor(s) in accordance with the Contract Documents. 4. Issue all instructions of CITY to Contractor(s); prepare routine change orders as required; ARCHITECT may, as the CITY’s representative, require special inspection or testing of the work; act as interpreter of the requirements of the Contract Documents and judge the performance thereunder by the parties thereto; make decisions on all claims of CITY and Contractor(s) relating to the execution and progress of the work, and all other matters and questions related thereto; but ARCHITECT shall not be liable for the results of...
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