Those of you who are new to
real estate development business, need to understand what each Design professional contributes to development team and specific services they are capable of delivering for you.Knowing what they do for you ... what you are paying for is vital.
This is part of a series of articles I am writing for you to explain what each profession does in some detail.
Hydraulic Engineers
Most we know what an Architect does, or what a Structural Engineer does, but hydraulic engineer is a bit of a puzzle.
When you hydraulic in development business "think" pipes, "think" water, "think" gas.
In other words "think" of any material that has to be provided by pipes in a real estate development. Lock that into your brain and we'll get to gripes with this service quickly.
If you are a resident of an apartment or a customer of a hotel, when you turn on a hot faucet (tap) you rightfully expect to feel hot water running into your sink soon.
Have you ever wondered how a person on second floor or sixtieth floor gets hot water on demand ... or cold water for that matter.
Similarily, you can ask same question about liquid waste we humans produce in our residential accommodation.
You can add to that fire services and sprinklers that keep us safe or gas service if you want to cook on gas on twentyfifth floor.
Do we want a swimming pool on penthouse level or on ground floor or do we want to recycle your waste water and use it to water garden, then you'll need an hydraulic engineer.
So hydraulic engineer is pretty important to our health and lifestyle. If he did not exist, then high rise buildings would not exist.
So with that overview, let's get into detail.
On receiving initial project brief, all aspects are examined in detail. The client's brief is expanded, analysed and reports are written.
These reports allow client opportunity to evaluate all sections of report, from a financial and technical point of view, in full knowledge of implications of all components of hydraulic services.
Design co-ordination and control is maintained by regular in-house meetings, with resultant elimination of site problems.
And hydraulic engineer's role can be summarised as:
Design documentation - services are drawn to scale.
Obtain all necessary Authority Approvals.
Prepare specification, schedules, quantities and estimates.
Complete 'As Constructed' set of drawings.
Carry out all construction supervision and report.
,i>And approach to their clients' projects is:
* To be cost effective * To be efficient * To contain our latest design innovations
Professional Services
Not all of scope of professional services set out below can be offered by all hydraulic engineering firms.
These services are offered by firm I have used on almost all of my developments. They are leaders in their field and design for projects around world.
