08/1787 - Response to Information Request [As Published] · 132008.1787

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SPECIALISTS MANAGING THE EARTH

Important information about your Coffey Report

Interpretation by other design professionals

Costly problems can occur when other design professionals
develop their plans based on misinterpretations
of a report. To help avoid misinterpretations, retain
Coffey to work with other project design professionals
who are affected by the report. Have Coffey explain
the report implications to design professionals affected
by them and then review plans and specifications
produced to see how they incorporate the report
findings.

Data should not be separated from the report”

 

The report as a whole presents the findings of the site
assessment and the report should not be copied in
part or altered in any way.

Logs, figures, drawings, ete. are customarily included
in our reports and are developed by scientists,
engineers or geologists based on their interpretation
of field logs (assembled by field personne!) and
laboratory evaluation of field samples. These logs etc.
should not under any circumstances be redrawn for
inclusion in other documents or separated from the
report in any way.

Geoenvironmental concerns are not at issue

 

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. (f you have no information about
the potential for your site to be contaminated or create
an environmental hazard, you are advised to contact
Coffey for information relating to geoenvironmental
issues.

Coffey Geotechnics Pty Ltd ABN 93 056 929 483

Rely on Coffey for additional assistance

Coffey is familiar with a variety of techniques and
approaches that can be used to help reduce risks for
all parties to a project, from design to construction. It
is common that not all approaches will be necessarily
dealt with in your site assessment report due to
concepts proposed at that time. As the project
progresses through design towards construction,
speak with Coffey to develop alternative approaches
to problems that may be of genuine benefit both in
time and cost.

Responsibility

Reporting relies on interpretation of factual information
based on judgement and opinion and has a level of
uncertainty attached to it, which is far less exaci than
the design disciplines. This has often resulted in claims
being lodged against consultants, which are unfounded,
To help prevent this problem, a number of clauses
have been developed for use in contracts, reports and
other documents. Responsibility clauses do not transfer
appropriate liabilities from Coffey to other parties but
are included to identify where Coffey's responsibilities
begin and end. Their use is intended to help all parties
involved to recognise their individual responsibilities.
Read ail documents from Coffey closely and do not
hesitate to ask any questions you may have.

 

* For further information on this aspect reference shouid be
made to “Guidelines for the Provision of Geotechnical
information in Construction Contracts" published by the
institution of Engineers Australia, National Headquarters,
Canberra, 1987.

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