Bidding and award

• Assist in evaluating bidder’s qualifications
• Provide mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection addenda and clarifications
• Assist in bid evaluations

Preconstruction services

• Attend meetings
• Assist in establishing communications procedures
• Assist in establishing testing and inspection procedures
• Advise client and contractor regarding which mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection elements require construction observation by mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection design engineers
• Respond to building department and peer review comments

Submittal review

• Review submittals for items designed by mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection design engineers
• Review certain architectural submittals for related impact on mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection work

Site visits

• Make site visits at intervals appropriate to the stage of construction
• Prepare site-visit reports

Materials testing and inspections

• Review testing and inspection reports
• Initiate appropriate action to those reports, if required
• Assist in commissioning with third-party commissioning agent if required

Payment applications

• Review mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection prime contract monthly payment applications against completed work, and advise if appropriate for payment.
• As requested, assist construction manager, clerk-of-works, and/or architect in their assessment of completed mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection work for their review of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection payment applications.