NCARB PJM Exam with Questions Solved with 100% Correct Answers
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During construction, the owner provides many of the building materials needed for
construction from his personal stash. If the owner-architect contract stipulates that the
architect's fee will be 7% of construction costs, will the architect be paid for that 7% of
the actual construction cost or ...
NCARB PJM Exam with Questions Solved
with 100% Correct Answers
During construction, the owner provides many of the building materials needed for
construction from his personal stash. If the owner-architect contract stipulates that the
architect's fee will be 7% of construction costs, will the architect be paid for that 7% of
the actual construction cost or 7% of what the construction cost would have been had
the material not been provided free by the owner? - Answer The owners budget for the
cost of the work includes the reasonable value of labor, materials and equipment
provided by the owner.
If the owner provides their own materials or labor, the architect gets paid their portion
of that too, provided the fee is based on a percentage of construction costs
Summarize AIA B101, the owner-architect agreement - Answer Typical Design-Bid-Build
Owner-Architect ContractThe Architect must:
Maintain schedule and budget
Manage utilities, codes, governmental agencies
Consider environmentally sustainable options
Provide the instruments of service at the standard of care
Cost estimate at every phase and redesign if over budget
Contemporaneous Documentation - Answer Recording of non-regular communications,
decisions, and actions throughout a project
AIA C401 Architect-consultant agreement - Answer The Consultant is not responsible for
other Consultant's works, but still has the same duty to say something when errors
appear. The Consultant only reports to the Architect, then the Architect reports to the
owner and contractor.
,These documents are included in "Contract Documents"
Addendum
Change Order
ASI (Architect's Supplemental Information)
Construction Change Directive - Answer These documents are NOT included in "contract
documents"
RFI's
Consequential Damages - Answer From the indirect effects of a botched job, including
lost owner rents, lost owner's customers, lost owners productivity, loss from owners
bank loan penalties, and most costly of all, lost owner's profits.
AIA contracts include provisions where all sides agree to waive any right to sue one
another for consequential damages
C Corporation - Answer Large company with public stocks-double taxed
Not really for architecture firms, except the largest ones
Descriptive Specification - Answer Detailed written information on requirements for
material and product quality, including installation
Prescriptive Specification - Answer Detailed means and methods of construction
Joint Venture - Answer When two companies make a temporary third company to win a
commission and build a project, with profits and risks shared between the two parent
companies
, PERT critical path diagrams - Answer Subset of critical path scheduling diagrams that
clearly identifies the building sequence, but is unspecific as to task duration. Developed
by the contractor
An architect is designing a place of worship, and during construction, members of the
community band together as volunteers to assist with the building process. If the
owner-architect contract stipulates that the architect's fee will be 7% of construction
costs, will the architect be paid for that 7% of the actual construction cost or 7% of what
the construction cost would have been had the labor not been donated? - Answer The
owner has to pay the architect for 7% of the value of the donated labor too
In the AIA contracts, what is "The Work" and is "The Project"? - Answer "The Work"
includes all the construction required to meet the obligations of these particular
contract documents
"The Project" may also include efforts and buildings constructed by other contractors or
the owner
In most cases the Work and the Project are the same
Prevention Costs - Answer Costs to prevent and avoid mistakes on the job. Incurred and
accounted for before the project, and separate from the project, to create and maintain
the quality management program (checklists!). This seems obvious, but most firms don't
have money set aside to prevent errors.
Specifications (products, like plotters that alert you before they run out of ink so you
don't accidentally send a drawing set that is faded on the last pages. . . or services like a
third-party printing service that maintains its own plotters and has a good reputation)
Quality planning (submission to ISO 9001 quality management program)
Quality management (checklists for each project kickoff meeting)
Training (send staff to code officials' annual conference)
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