The Role of the Engineer - Myth and Reality
Article from: TDM 2 (2017), in Non-Legal Adjudicators in National and International Disputes
Executive Summary
After a review of the various types of engineers and of the various roles of the Engineer within the same project, the focus of this article is on the supervision of the works by the Engineer, a distinction between the assignment of the supervision and the assignment of the design, the role of the Engineer as to variations, the authority of the Engineer, the risk of interference by the Engineer with the Contractor's organization of the works, the contractual requirement of the Engineer's satisfaction, acceptance of the works by conduct, the Engineer as agent of the Owner, the need to ...