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Page 14 <br />(Exhibit A – Engineer’s Services) <br />EJCDC E-500 Agreement Between Owner and Engineer for Professional Services <br />Copyright © 2008 National Society of Professional Engineers for EJCDC. All rights reserved. <br />Documents, or (c) will imperil the integrity of the design concept of the completed Project <br />as a functioning whole as indicated by the Contract Documents. <br />9.Clarifications and Interpretations; Field Orders: Issue necessary clarifications and <br />interpretations of the Contract Documents as appropriate to the orderly completion of <br />Contractor’s work. Such clarifications and interpretations will be consistent with the intent <br />of and reasonably inferable from the Contract Documents. Subject to any limitations in the <br />Contract Documents, Engineer may issue field orders authorizing minor variations in the <br />Work from the requirements of the Contract Documents. <br />10.Change Orders and Work Change Directives: Recommend change orders and work <br />change directives to Owner, as appropriate, and prepare change orders and work change <br />directives as required. <br />11.Shop Drawings and Samples: Review and approve or take other appropriate action in <br />respect to Shop Drawings and Samples and other data which Contractor is required to <br />submit, but only for conformance with the information given in the Contract Documents <br />and compatibility with the design concept of the completed Project as a functioning whole <br />as indicated by the Contract Documents. Such reviews and approvals or other action will <br />not extend to means, methods, techniques, sequences, or procedures of construction or to <br />safety precautions and programs incident thereto. Engineer shall meet any Contractor’s <br />submittal schedule that Engineer has accepted. <br />12.Substitutes and “or-equal”: Evaluate and determine the acceptability of substitute or “or- <br />equal” materials and equipment proposed by Contractor, but subject to the provisions of <br />Paragraph A2.02.A.2 of this Exhibit A. <br />13.Inspections and Tests: Require such special inspections or tests of Contractor’s work as <br />deemed reasonably necessary, and receive and review all certificates of inspections, tests, <br />and approvals required by Laws and Regulations or the Contract Documents. Engineer’s <br />review of such certificates will be for the purpose of determining that the results certified <br />indicate compliance with the Contract Documents and will not constitute an independent <br />evaluation that the content or procedures of such inspections, tests, or approvals comply <br />with the requirements of the Contract Documents. Engineer shall be entitled to rely on the <br />results of such tests. <br />14.Disagreements between Owner and Contractor: Render formal written decisions on all <br />duly submitted issues relating to the acceptability of Contractor’s work or the <br />interpretation of the requirements of the Contract Documents pertaining to the execution, <br />performance, or progress of Contractor’s Work; review each duly submitted Claim by <br />Owner or Contractor, and in writing either deny such Claim in whole or in part, approve <br />such Claim, or decline to resolve such Claim if Engineer in its discretion concludes that to <br />do so would be inappropriate. In rendering such decisions, Engineer shall be fair and not <br />show partiality to Owner or Contractor and shall not be liable in connection with any <br />decision rendered in good faith in such capacity.