Response to Information Request - MCU12/0184

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Important information about your Coffey Report

Interpretation by other design professionals                    Rely on Coffey for additional assistance
Costly problems can occur when other design professionals       Coffey is familiar with a variety of techniques and
develop their plans based on misinterpretations                 approaches that can be used to help reduce risks for
of a report. To help avoid misinterpretations, retain           all parties to a project, from design to construction. It

Coffey to work with other project design professionals          is common that not all approaches will be necessarily
who are affected by the report. Have Coffey explain             dealt with in your site assessment report due to
the report implications to design professionals affected        concepts proposed at that time. As the project
by them and then review plans and specifications                progresses through design towards construction,
produced to see how they incorporate the report                 speak with Coffey to develop alternative approaches
findings.                                                       to problems that may be of genuine benefit both in
                                                                time and cost.

Data should not be separated from the report*

The report as a whole presents the findings of the site
                                                                Responsibility
assessment and the        report should not be copied in        Reporting relies on interpretation of factual information
part or altered in any way.                                     based on judgement and opinion and has a level of
                                                                uncertainty attached to it, which is far less exact than
Logs, figures, drawings, etc. are customarily included          the design disciplines. This has often resulted in claims
in our  reports and are developed by scientists,                being lodged against consultants, which are unfounded.
engineers or geologists based on their interpretation           To help prevent this problem, a number of clauses
of field logs (assembled by field personnel) and                have been developed for use in contracts, reports and

laboratory evaluation of field samples. These logs etc.         other documents. Responsibility clauses do not transfer
should not under any circumstances be redrawn for               appropriate liabilities from Coffey to other parties but
inclusion in other documents or separated from the              are included to identify where Coffey’s responsibilities

report in any way.                                              begin and end. Their use is intended to help all parties
                                                                involved to recognise their individual responsibilities.
                                                                Read all documents from Coffey closely and do not
Geoenvironmental concerns are not at issue
                                                                hesitate to ask any questions you may have.
Your report is not        likely   to relate any    findings,
conclusions, or recommendations about the potential
for hazardous materials existing at the site unless
specifically required to do so by the client.
                                          Specialist
equipment, techniques, and personnel are used to
perform a geoenvironmental assessment.
Contamination can create major health, safety and
                                                                *
environmental risks. If you have no information about               For further information on this aspect reference should be

the potential for your site to be contaminated or create        made to "Guidelines for the Provision of Geotechnical

an   environmental hazard, you         are advised to contact   Information in Construction Contracts" published       by the
Coffey    for   information_relating    to   geoenvironmental   Institution of   Engineers Australia, National Headquarters,
issues.                                                         Canberra, 1987.




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