Engineer's responsibility to check rebar shop drawings? 9

[livewire9]

Do other structural engineers out there typically check the rebar shop drawings for a 3rd party contractor (different from in-house construction crew at a Design-Build or IPC firm) prior to construction? IMO, that is edging over the line of responsibilities. I have been doing this for an employer who, I believe, takes on too much. I think it should remain the responsibility of the contractor, or their rebar fabricator, to read the plans correctly.

 

[oldrunner]

Always.

 

[BridgeSmith]

...get exact QTO before bidding for budget purpose, and help contractors estimate during the bid.

Yep, that's it!

Plus, we don't have any shops to check for it. We have enough shops to check...

Also, we adjust some of our laps for A[sub]Srequired[/sub] / A[sub]Sprovided[/sub], etc., so we'd have to provide considerably more design information for the rebar fabricators to calculate the laps...or many of the laps would be longer than required.

Rod Smith, P.E., The artist formerly known as HotRod10