Small Projects Checklist
User's Guide Glossary may help to decipher this list.
INITIAL CONTACT
- Contact Originator; identify client and general scope
- Meet with client; determine program, budgetary and schedule constraints
- Propose solution for estimate
ESTIMATE
- Check as-builts, compare to field conditions
- Survey, soil engineering required
- A+E Costs
- Include as-built and base map revisions in closeout costs
- Outside consultant costs: refer to consultant's scope checklist*
- Preliminary review by Campus Engineers
- Preliminary code check/ handicap accessibility check
- Construction costs
- Sprinklers, heat and smoke detectors, alarm tie-in
- Energy Management System
- Telephone/ Data
- Mechanical
- Furnishings and Equipment
- Carpet and Blinds
- In-house work orders (including hardware and keying)
- Will client occupy during construction? Restriction on work hours?
- Will the schedule require overtime work?
- Information Technology Services (ITS) costs (usually specifically excluded)
- Designated Campus State Fire Marshall (DCFM)/State Fire Marshall costs
- Division of State Architect Costs
- Moving, storage costs (usually specifically excluded)
- Systems shut-downs and start-ups
- Campus Lock Shop
- Special Items
- Testing to locate structure
- Environmental documentation costs
- Design Advisory Board and Advisory COmmittee on Facilities (ACF) costs (preparation, meetings, changes)
- Asbestos, lead-based paint, or other suspect material? Contact
EH&S
- include costs
- Contingency
- Review of architectural project estimate by Small Projects Manager
- If greater than $20,000: information to client on other reviews, approvals, etc.
- E-mail estimate form letter to client (form letter on server)
- Provide hard copies of plans, etc. as required
PRE-DESIGN
- Minor Cap Summary Form and ACF approval (through Capital
Planning and Space Management)
- Any addition or deletion to built area of campus
- Over $35,000 project cost, unless maintenance or repair
- Project over $400,000
- only $100,000 of 19900 funds may be used
- Architect/Engineer selection and authorization
- Research current building and utility plans, existing CAD files
SCHEMATIC DESIGN
- Preliminary notification of EAG for Environmental Impact
Classification
- Consult campus arborist as applicable
- DAB/ Campus Architect approval
- Maintain track of project costs, including A and E, throughout design
- Client approval of schematic design and estimate
CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS
- Room numbering: Capital Planning and Space Management (CPSM)
- Review by Project Manager
- Project Program
- Campus Standards/ use of standard specifications
- LRDP
- Client/Users approval
- Title 24 Energy calculations and documentation
- Environmental Assessment Group
- Environmental Impact Classification (EIC) Form
- Instructions to file Notice of Exemption as applicable
- Architecture: Small Projects Manager/ Campus Architect
- Engineering: Mechanical/ Electrical/ Civil (as required)
- Refer to Electrical Requirements- Small Projects
- PP&C Records Department: Review Submittals Schedule and Closeout Specifications
- ITS : review (if there is a phone, there must be data), contact Russ Johnson (russj@ucsc.edu)
- Physical Plant: Heat Plant/ Custodial (as applicable)
- Fire: UCSC DCFM/ State Fire Marshal (as required)
- Architect or Engineer stamped drawings/ 2 week minimum review
- UCSC Fire Marshal approved set to State Fire Marshal
- Environmental Health and Safety (as required)
- Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District
- Accessibility: ADA Compliance Officer
- DSA (Division of the State Architect, formerly OSA)
- Transporation and Parking Services (TAPS): designated construction parking*
- Police: Security issues (as Required)
- Independent Seismic Review (wood frame less than 3000SF exempt)
BIDDING
- Refer to Construction Contract Flow Chart and Bidding Procedures Matrix for additional details*
- Request to have contract written/ bid
- Original through routing list
- Written justification to accompany all negotiated contract requests
- Copy in queue at PP&C Contracts
- Plans and Specifications to Contracts Unit for Printing
- Inspector Request to Senior Inspector (as required)
- Construction Documents to Inspector
- Prepare Purchase Orders and Work Orders (as required)
- Hardware (keying)
- Carpet
- Furnishings and Equipment
- Moving
- Systems shut-downs and start-ups
- Pre-bid Conference; refer to sample agenda*
- Bid opening
- Client notification
CONTRACT AWARD
- Review Total Project Costs and Funding
- PM instructs contracts unit to proceed
- Notification to Building Sponsor of scheduled work (work order desk has list of sponsors)
- Notification to Campus of scheduled work (as necessary)
PRE-CONSTRUCTION
- Verify need for Inspector
- Pre-Construction Conference including Project Manager, Inspector, Contractor, and User
- PP&C Records Department Conference with Project Manager to review Submittals Schedule and Construction Document Procedures
- Provide Building Representitive with detailed schedule with
possible noxious activities, as applicable
- Indoor Air Quality Notification Form
- Asbestos Abatement Notice
- Documentation by pre-construction conference check-list* and meeting notes
- standard distribution of Project Directory*
- Provide Work Orders to appropriate campus crafts
- Provide keys to contractor with notification of liability for loss
- Fire Marshal and Engineering review of the sprinkler/ fire alarm shop drawings
- Notice to Proceed
CONSTRUCTION
- Coordinate Construction Activities
- Request to work during non-scheduled periods* (Server:
Departments: A+E forms: Notices/ Other forms)
- Fax distribution: Police x9-2231, Fire x9-3473, Communications x2435
- Utility Shut-Down Procedures
- Indoor Air Quality Notification*
- Inspect and Record Progress of Work
- Document Construction Progress Meetings
- Review Progress Payments
- Inspection by UCSC lockshop prior to punchlist
- Final Walkthrough and Punchlist
- Routine inspection of new or remodeled facilities for seismic anchoring of nonstructural building elements
- Fire Marshal test of Alarm and Sprinkler Systems
PROJECT CLOSEOUT
- Maintenance Staff walk-through
- Fire Marshal final inspection, confirm that "record set" has been sent to SFM
- Record set to DSA
- Obtain User's approval of the completed project
- Operations and Maintenance Manuals
- As-built / Record Documents
- Plans to Records Department
- Marked "As-built", scanned and archived
- Record CAD Files checked for CAD Standards compliance, archived
- Annotated Specifications to Records Department (where applicable)
- Ensure submittal of extended and special warranties
- Update Basemaps
- Notification of Purchased Utilities Manager (R. Dunn) of any changes to meters
- File Notice of Completion (Over $25,000 contract)
- Release of Retention (over $25,000 contract)
- Approve Final Payment to Contractor
- Notification of Warranty Deficiences*
- Meet with Records Department to confirm Warranty Deficiencies process setup and procedures
- Maintain CFR File/ Work Package until the dust settles
- Return Work Package to Work Order Control Desk
- Insurance Valuation Form for Property
- Retrieve contractor keys
GENERAL
- Files*
- correspondence
- telephone logs
- meeting minutes
- punchlist
- submittals
* refer to other sources