Consultation on engineering design qualification issues
Thread Content
The project is a distributed energy power plant, and we are the equipment supplier. For various reasons, the design of the civil foundation for the equipment is the responsibility of our party and falls outside the scope of work of the design institute. The general contractor requires that the design institute responsible for the civil engineering design of the equipment must have the qualifications for electrical design. Our cooperative design institute only holds Class A qualification in the construction industry. I need help – are there any specific regulations or standards that address this? Thank you
The general contractor’s requirement is correct; the design work for power plant projects must be carried out by design institutes with relevant electrical engineering qualifications. For more details, you can refer to the \"Engineering Design Qualification Standards\" (2007 edition), which is available on the website of the Ministry of Housing and Construction.
This indicates that the scope of the contract for this project at your company is not well-defined; as a equipment supplier, you only need to put forward your requirements – why should civil engineering design also be included? Isn’t this causing trouble? Suggested solution: Reassign the civil engineering design for the equipment foundation to the general contractor (pass the responsibility back to them!) ).
Thank you. The foundation is generally within the scope of the design institute; I’m not sure how the company decided that at the time. . . It can only be said that doing business is difficult