Architect Digitally Signing & Sealing Drawings He/She Did Not Draw

[jar546]

• This is a partial view of 90% of the page that was digitally signed and sealed by an architect
• The scope of work states they are renovating two bathrooms, yet only one is clouded & shown
• This involves a rated wall assembly to the corridor of this high-rise.
• Even the code cycle is wrong.

How can you expect this to be approved when you submit stuff like this?

 

[RLGA]

I would warn the architect: "Do this again and we will report you to the DBPR."

 

[steveray]

I would warn the architect: "Do this again and we will report you to the DBPR."

I've tried that a few times in CT....they don't care...

 

[my250r11]

I've tried that a few times in CT....they don't care...

Sounds like NM also.

 

[RLGA]

I've tried that a few times in CT....they don't care...

Who’s “they,” the architect or the board?

In Arizona, the state board at least investigates every complaint, then decide if they’ll take action.

 

[Mark K]

While the building department can file a complaint with the state regulatory agency a more productive approach would be to return the submission with a comment requesting clarification as to where is the second bathroom located.

 

[steveray]

Who’s “they,” the architect or the board?

In Arizona, the state board at least investigates every complaint, then decide if they’ll take action.

Both

 

[steveray]

While the building department can file a complaint with the state regulatory agency a more productive approach would be to return the submission with a comment requesting clarification as to where is the second bathroom located.

I just try to make sure my approval effort matches their submittal effort.....

 

[Yankee Chronicler]

I just try to make sure my approval effort matches their submittal effort.....

We operate under a mandate from on high to be "user friendly" and "client-oriented" in all our dealings and, since so may permit rejections seem to quickly find their way to the mayor's office, I have decided that it's helpful (to me) to write a few more words in explanation of each issue rather than just write a cryptic comment. It doesn't make any difference to the designers -- they still screw things up -- but at least we can point to the explanatory plan review comments to document that we tried to be helpful.

I have to admit that on many days it is extremely difficult to even be civil, especially on the resubmittals. The one I just re-reviewed started out with 19 comments. Out of those nineteen, three were fixed, and of the rest rough half were only partially corrected and the rest weren't addressed at all.

But the owner is in a hurry to get started, so time is of the essence.

More directly pertinent to the subject of this thread: we have been instructed from on high that we are NOT to report unlicensed design professionals and plan stampers to the respective licensing boards. I chafe at that, but I need my job and I'm not aware of any state law I am breaking by not reporting them, so I just keep on rejecting submittals until we either get to something we can approve or, as has recently happened, the owner gets fed up and hires a competent design professional.

 

[my250r11]

We operate under a mandate from on high to be "user friendly" and "client-oriented" in all our dealings and, since so may permit rejections seem to quickly find their way to the mayor's office, I have decided that it's helpful (to me) to write a few more words in explanation of each issue rather than just write a cryptic comment. It doesn't make any difference to the designers -- they still screw things up -- but at least we can point to the explanatory plan review comments to document that we tried to be helpful.

We operate like this also