25th January 2006, 05:04 PM
Thanks hb and ck. I think I'd come from the view of levying the charge to the contractor (a kind of probation if their standards had slipped?). They could be told in advance that every project they did would have to be monitored more regularly during a set period of time and therefore site visits would be made x times per week during the course of the project (field and post ex). The cost would then be built into their end cost, and could therefore be compared reasonably to all the other quotes from other contractors. There would have to be a process to get to this stage of extended monitoring, but it wouldn't as such be a tax on the developer because they would have the choice between tenders (and the charge would be comensurate to the monitoring visit time and used for that purpose). CK - not been posting long, so if i'm going over old ground apologies [:I]. Could you tell me the original thread?
Of the Clan Sutton
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