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Structural
- Dec 1, 2008
- 754
Structural engineers, do you stamp site visit reports during construction? These are not Special Inspections. These site visits are to make observations for general conformance with the Construction Documents. The reports will usually include a description and some photos of the general progress/stage of the work, and include descriptions and photos of any observed non-conforming work (e.g. missing rebar or wrong stud spacing or something like that). These site visits are very periodic, maybe only 1 to 3 times during construction for small commercial projects. For some projects we perform no site visits. We have never stamped these, and I have seen architects issue similar reports without stamping. If it makes any difference, these reports are usually addressed to and delivered to the architect, since they are our client who is paying us for the service.
I have never thought much about stamping these types of site visit reports until recently when I have started to lean toward "everything an engineer does has to be stamped unless it is preliminary or not for construction or for information only or something to that effect".
What do others think? Please weigh in.
I have never thought much about stamping these types of site visit reports until recently when I have started to lean toward "everything an engineer does has to be stamped unless it is preliminary or not for construction or for information only or something to that effect".
What do others think? Please weigh in.