• Design, consultations and advice • Assistance in start-up, assessment of capacity,

• Feasibility studies and operation of facilities

• Field investigations and engineering data collection • Preparation of operation and maintenance
• Environmental assessments, impact statements or
manuals
Engineering reports
• Appraisal and rate studies
• Opinions of probable construction cost
• Value engineering
• Preliminary and final designs, drawings, specifications
and construction bidding documents • Expert testimony
• Assistance in securing construction bids and awarding • Structural remediation or rehabilitation
contracts • Project management and controls
• Construction administration and observation • Provisions of supplemental temporary staff
• Arrangements for or performance of testing of • Teaching
materials and equipment
SPECIALIZATION OF
CIVIL ENGINEERS
AND CIVIL
ENGINEERING
FIRMS
ENGAGEMENT OF A CIVIL ENGINEER
- one of the most important decisions to be made during the development of
an engineering project

Cost of full range of engineering services =

Not less than 1 to 2% of the life-cycle cost of most

construction projects.

*Continuity of service aids adavantage: (Client)

From conception, design, construction and project start-up.
Critical importance in selection of a Civil Engineer as a
consultant:

• Qualifications
• Experience
• Reputation
• Quality of Client Service

DETAILED SCOPE OF SERVICES:

-- Reduces the potential for misunderstandings or confusion
Guidelines in this manual refer specifically to the
engagement of engineering services where:

CONSULTING CIVIL ENGINEERS - serves as prime

professional

CLIENT - serves as owner of the project

Guidelines in this manual refer to Civil Engineers
employed by professional consulting firms,
government agencies, educational institutions,
construction fims and commercial entities and
other entities.
Process through which a Civil Engineer is
selected above other competitors based
on a proposal or innovative approach to
solving a client’s needs.
“Engineers may request, propose or
accept professional commissions on a
contingency basis only under
circumstances in which their
professional judgments would not be
compromised.”
The laws of the foreigner’s Consultants to be Employees of Civil engineers who were former
state allow the citizens of the Allowed engaged in citizens of the Philippines, who
Philippines or had been registered and issued a
Philipines to practice civil under foreign-funded,
engineering on the same joint venture or foreign private certificate of registration and a
international
basis and grant the same foreign-assisted institutions professional identification card
agreement prior to their naturalization as
privileges as those enjoyed projects of the
by the citizens of such government.
pursuant to foreign citizens, and who, while in
foreign state. law. the country on a visit, sojourn or
permanent residence, desire to
practice their profession.