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A day in the life of a clerk of works

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  1. This makes total sense.

    In recent years in my own experience, it certainly seems as though some Site Managers / Employer’s Agents are either not willing to ensure the best Q.A. checks and measures are in place, or are simply not capable; due to lack of experience / knowledge (or I dare say, due to the relentless drive to “Value Engineer” to the detriment of quality / safety etc.)

    I would even go so far as to say that certainly for larger or more complex Projects, that a Clerk of Works is seen as an essential job role, and employed as a matter of course, as the cost of employing a Clerk of Works would be more cost effective that not, and then risking issues / problems arising further down the road during Construction, or snagging at Completion and post-completion stages.

  2. I have worked in both private and Council positions for 50 years and have always respected the CofW position and when they decided it was a money saving exercise to stop using them in the 2000s I complained as at the time I was employed by Derbyshire County Council and they wouldn’t listen! It ALWAYS takes a disaster to make anybody do anything! Very sad!

  3. so what liability does a CoW have?
    they may be the least well capitalised of all the major parties to the overall contract.

  4. Hooray for clerks of work. Hope to see them back on every site.

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