Structural Engineer and Architect Relationship 1

[Baldapour]

Hi All,
I wonder what your experience is like with Architects?
I am a technician and I'm having a hard time with 2 different architects, as they seem to relay on me to provide them with drawings (not sketches) so they can comments without them having to draw anything.
We provide them with GA drawings, but for them to change their drawings when they revise anything, no, they just mark up ours and they call it a day, then we have to change ours.
One of them doesn't even provide us with a full set of GA, we have to do a lot of guess work.
Both are external architects for 2 different practices.
Is you experience similar to mine, better, worst, let me know?
For information, I work for structural engineers and we provide structural services for Architects and clients, we are not providing CAD services.
Thanks

 

[Baldapour]

Good to read your views, much appreciated.

 

[glass99]

I've had design-build jobs that were hopelessly chaotic because architect and consultants wanted to push everything on contractor and contractor was treating it like a design-bid-build job

If I had to pin point the problem its where the design team's fee is eliminated bc its design build, and the contractor didn't price in design cost bc the construction manager didn't really understand the difference and just cranked on cost.