Common use of ASSURANCE AND OTHER TESTING Clause in Contracts

ASSURANCE AND OTHER TESTING. 14.3.1 The Principal Representative shall retain an independent testing agent to perform quality assurance testing services for the project. The testing agent's services, duties and responsibilities include tests/inspections performed as described in the various Divisions of the Specifications and shall include but not be limited to: asphaltic concrete, cast-in-place concrete, mortar and grout, structural steel welds and bolt connections, steam pipe welding, and geotechnical investigation. 14.3.2 The Construction Manager is responsible to: 1. Provide sufficient notification in advance of operations to permit laboratory personnel assignment and scheduling. 2. Coordinate with laboratory personnel and provide access to the Work and manufacturer's operation. 3. Furnish casual labor to facilitate sample handling and testing at the project site. 4. Provide facilities for laboratory's exclusive use to store and cure samples. 5. Supply preliminary representative samples of products and materials, if required. 6. Supply mill test report if required. 7. Retain separate equally qualified independent testing lab to perform additional services required for Construction Manager's convenience and when initial service indicate products, material and work do not comply with the Contract Documents. 14.3.3 If the Contract Documents, laws, ordinances, rules, regulations or orders of any public authority having jurisdiction require any portion of the Work to be inspected, tested or approved, the Construction Manager shall give the Principal Representative timely notice of its readiness so the Principal Representative and the Architect/Engineer may observe such inspection, testing or approval. The Construction Manager shall bear all costs of inspections, tests or approvals which were legally required when this Agreement was executed, whether or not yet effective or merely scheduled to go into effect. The Principal Representative shall bear all costs of inspections, tests or approvals which may be required thereafter. 14.3.4 If the Principal Representative determines that any Work requires special inspection, testing or approval which paragraph 14.2 and paragraph 14.3.1 do not include, the Construction Manager shall, upon written authorization from the Principal Representative order such special inspection, testing or approval, and the Construction Manager shall give notice as provided in paragraph 14.3.1. If such special inspection or testing reveals a failure of the Work to comply with the requirements of the Contract Documents, the Construction Manager shall bear all direct costs thereof, including compensation for the Architect/Engineer's additional services made necessary by such failure; otherwise the Principal Representative shall bear such costs, and an appropriate Amendment or Change Order shall be issued. 14.3.5 Required certificates of inspection, testing, or approval shall be secured by the Construction Manager and the Construction Manager shall promptly deliver them to the Principal Representative and the Architect/Engineer.