Question for Canadian Professional Engineers - sealing a drawing package 2

[Peter_Can_Eng]

Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this, it didn't seem to fit in the other forums.

I'm sealing the design for a free-standing tower. There's an assembly drawing with a BOM, and then another 20 or so sheets with details of the assembly.

My question is - is there a requirement that I seal all the sheets? Or can I simply seal the sheet with the BOM, and that counts for approving the whole design?

The firm I work for charges per sheet for each seal so the customer would probably like the avoid that if possible. In past instances, other customers have always erred on the side of caution and paid for me to seal each sheet. This is the first time that a customer is asking for me to just seal the overall assembly.

 

[jayrod12]

There have been times where instead of sealing 100 sheets of assembly details I've provided a cover letter indicating the title and revision of each of those sheets and indicated that the seal on the cover letter is intended on applying to the sheets listed below. As part of that package I also individually seal the overall assembly drawing(s).

 

[Enable]

Depends on your jurisdiction, but looks like you're in my neck of the woods. Here's the PEO's outline for use of seals.

AFAIK, for Ontario all final drawings must be sealed unless they are part of a bound package / report. So, it's kind of silly, but if you include a cover page describing what you're doing and sign/seal that you could probably get away without signing each DWG.

Relevant snippets

Seals must be affixed to drawings, specifications,
drawings or sketches accompanying change notices
and site instructions, and studies containing technical information or engineering direction. Engineers should also apply their seals to forms for government or regulatory authority use that specifically
require a professional engineer’s seal, such as a
Commitment to General Review

Reports providing technical information or engineering direction to the user must be signed and
sealed. Drawings bound into reports need not be
sealed individually, provided the document itself
is signed, sealed and dated.

Individual
drawings within a bound document do not need
to be sealed.

 

[Peter_Can_Eng]

I like that approach, I may use that, thanks.