Is it reasonable for an evaluation company to request the design firm to provide a stamped version of the general plan?
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The junior staff member has encountered a problem: after the feasibility study report was prepared, the client hired a third-party agency to conduct a safety pre-assessment. Now that agency is requesting that our design firm provide stamped versions of the general layout plan and the maps showing the relationship with surrounding areas. If we stamp them, it will be with the issuing seal, which is used only during the design phase when preparing the construction drawings. The feasibility study report only bears the institute’s seal on its cover. It seems that such a requirement isn’t specified in the guidelines for conducting this pre-assessment; so can we ignore it? There’s no reason to stamp it anyway
The Feasibility Study Report includes a site plan of the factory and an overall layout diagram of the facilities, as well as a land use risk analysis and a competitiveness analysis of the location. This document should be provided by the owner to a third party; if your relationship is good, it’s fine to give a copy to the owner as well. But you have no obligation to contact third parties.
For proper, larger-scale projects, there are no drawings with official stamps; therefore, safety assessments cannot be carried out using drawings of unknown origin. Since safety requirements require a closed-loop approach, it is naturally the owner’s responsibility to provide such drawings, yet they still ask you for them
I’ve encountered the same problem too. How did the original poster resolve it in the end? Or are there other methods that friends can use to handle it?
I’ve encountered the same problem too. How did the original poster resolve it in the end? Or are there other methods that friends can use to handle it?
Reasoning doesn’t matter; there’s no rule stating that something must have the seal of a design institute. We ended up specifying the scope of work on the drawings and stamped them to approve them, and the project itself isn’t particularly risky
A design institute is there to serve people; just meeting their needs is enough
The drawings prepared by design firms are associated with different “design phases”; you just need to specify the design phase. It isn’t necessary to stamp the issuing authority on the construction drawings either – phases such as the feasibility study stage, preliminary design stage, construction drawing stage, and as-built drawing stage are all acceptable； For the general layout used by safety assessment agencies, we simply indicate that the design stage is the preliminary design phase. For reference!
Thank you. Safety pre-evaluations are generally carried out after the feasibility study, so the drawings attached are from the feasibility study phase