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<br />financial feasibility studies, special surveys, environmental studies, etc, services to verify <br />theaccuracy of drawings and information fumished by the owner, providing services in <br />connection with the wo~lc of a construction manager retained by the owner, detailed <br />construction cost estimates, interior design in connection with fumiture, fumishings and <br />equipment, planning tenant or rental spaces, investigations of materials and equipment, and <br />consultant services beyond necessary architectural, structural, mechanical, civil and electrical <br />services needed to produce construction documents as part of basic services. <br />What is required for written authorization or confirmation is not specified in the contract. <br />The service itself may not even be identified in advance as an "optional additional service". I <br />would infer that if one is operating in good faith and fair dealing. But the clear identification of <br />the service as basic, contingent additional or optional additional is easily lost in the give and <br />take of our present design process. <br />It may be a good idea to review with the architect exactly what is included in basic <br />services, develop a process for identifying additional services--optional and <br />contingent--including prior written notice by the architect, and obtain a statement of any <br />addiitional services the architect has performed or is performing to date. If you are concemed <br />about the Century West method of presenting you with work orders before the next step, you <br />should be concemed with whether the architect will present you with claims for "additional <br />services" after the fact. <br />Maybe this is an area where our construction manager can be of help. <br />Sorry to sound so paranoid. It just seems that our method of proceeding leaves a lot to be <br />assumed. I see differences in assumptions befinreen the owner and architect. <br />CC: i:bfether@teleport.com <br />