What is the Engineering Technical Office?
As you know, we need a series of technical factors for any construction project such as building, bridge, tunnel or road. These technical factors can play a role in the work execution phase, design and calculations or technical office.
For example, the supervisor of the workshop, the deputy of the workshop and the supervisor of the executive teams have the task of preparing the necessary materials and tools and giving the implementation solution for each activity so that the activity can be implemented with the help of workers and engineers.
Design engineers have the task of calculating and designing structural elements under the loads imposed on that structure.
In addition to these two, the technical and engineering office plays a significant role in preparing and approving executive plans in the structural, architectural, mechanical and electrical phases of urban buildings that require approval from the municipality.
☑️ Duties of the Technical Office of Civil Engineering
The question that may arise here is what are the duties of the technical office? In response, we must say that for each project and in all stages, from signing the contract to the delivery of the project, the technical engineer has special and important duties in the project.
The division of duties of the technical office of the construction in this article is done based on the time of the project and it specifies the duties of the technical office in each part of the work, i.e. the start of the work, during the execution and delivery of the work, on behalf of each of the contractor, consultant and employer. is in charge
At first, the employer determines the implementation of the project and pays the cost of the project to the contractor who is selected to implement the project, then a consulting engineer is selected by the employer to supervise the implementation of the project by the contractor.
☑️ Technical Office at the start of the project
Technical office work in the employer, consultant and contractor sector starts from the very beginning.
The technical book of the employer's department must first provide an estimate of the cost of doing the work, the amount of each activity in the work and the duration of the work. The employer can entrust part or all of these tasks to a consultant.
Most of the ongoing projects are three-factor (employer, consultant, contractor), smaller and less important projects are two-factor (employer and contractor), and larger and more important projects are four-factor (employer, project manager, consultant, contractor).
☑️ The skills required by a technical office engineer at the start of the project
At this stage, the most important skills that a technician must have are the ability to read maps, price analysis, complete mastery of price indexes, familiarity with the method Participating in tenders, meters and estimates is a complete familiarity with the agreement, general conditions and private conditions of the contract. It is very important to know whether the plans or execution schedules are really practical or not. Having these skills and of course gaining experience in this work, a technical engineer can become an important person in the company.
☑️ The office while executing the work
After the contractor was able to win the tender, the contractor's technical office enters the practical stage of the project and performs many tasks in this section.
One of the most important tasks at this stage is documenting the project and preparing reports in the contractor's department and reviewing them in the consultant's and employer's departments. This step requires high precision and order.
In the description of the duties of the supervisor and civil technical office expert in the project documentation department, the following items can be mentioned that must be prepared, organized and archived:
Documenting the meeting minutes of the work done
Schedule functions
Documenting the delays that occurred and the reason for it
Documenting daily tasks
Meeting minutes of conflicts that have arisen
Documenting Ezbilt maps or construction maps
Documents of approved tests and qualities for the activities performed
☑️ In the report of the report:
Reports related to the progress of the project and its schedule
Daily, weekly and monthly reports
Report conflicts that have arisen
Reports of delays
Report of materials used and required
Performance report of subcontractors
The main task of the technical office of the employer and the project consultant during the execution of the work is to check these matters. The consultant must check the correct execution of the work, the duration of the work and the costs claimed by the contractor in the form of the status statement and send it to the employer for final approval.
☑️ The skills required by a technical office engineer while performing work
For this stage, high abilities are needed, including report writing, mastery of discussing conflicts and lawsuits, complete familiarity with the agreement, general and private conditions of the contract, meters and estimates, map reading and even drawing until you become a technical engineer. Become well.
Certainly, experience will help you a lot in this work, but high skills are necessary to be present in this part of the projects.
☑️ Technical Office in the Project Delivery Stage
At this stage as well, the civil engineering office has a specific task description and must perform important tasks. For example, the contractor's technical book must prepare and adjust the final status report and deliver it to the consultant or employer.
Be careful that in the contracting department, the engineer of the technical office must prepare and adjust the temporary and definitive delivery documents at the time of project delivery and provide them to the consulting engineer and the employer.
In both the consultant and employer's department, checking these items is the main job of the technical accountant, and they must carefully check all this information so that the employer can hand over the completed project without any defects.
At this stage, like the previous stages, skills such as report writing, mastery of agreements, general and private conditions of the contract, mastery of discussing conflicts and lawsuits, meters and estimates can help you a lot.
☑️ Technical office chart (organizational chart)
People working in the technical office department work in two departments of the central technical office or project.
In the central technical office department, you deal with all the projects and you have to check all the works of the technical offices of the projects, participate in tenders and give price proposals.
In the technical office of the project, you only do the work of the technical office of that project. There are tasks such as status writing, function meeting minutes, documenting the billets with the technical notebook of the project.
The charts of different companies (the organizational chart of each company) have differences, and the technical office can assign different positions to itself in the workshop chart.
