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Business
Pulse
The Business Pulse addresses many of the issues confronting the
consulting engineer and is intended to provide members with the
latest information to assist them in their business practices.
Watch
this section for professional practice resources such as standard
contracts and guidelines, fees and insurance related documents and
other tools for small consulting engineering businesses. Upcoming
professional development events will also be posted in this section.
To help us keep you “on the pulse” in business, please
let us know what other information you would like to include here.
Young
Professionals Group
Professional engineers who have been in practice for three to ten years face different business and personal issues than their more
senior counterparts. The Young Professionals Group was established
in 2005 to create a forum in which young professional consulting
engineers can meet regularly with others in similar situations to
exchange ideas and to get frank feedback on business issues.
For additional information, please contact us at Tel: 604.687.2811
or email:info@cebc.org.
Standard Contracts and Guidelines
The agreement between Client and Consultant is governed by the size,
complexity, duration and other aspects of the assignment. For simple
projects with well defined parameters and requirements, a simple
agreement may suffice, appended with a mutually accepted set of
standards, terms and conditions. On the other hand a mega project
may require documentation drafted by legal counsel. Projects between
these extremes may use one of the four standard agreements most
commonly used in British Columbia.
The ACEC Document 31 is now availabe in electronic format, free of charge. Other ACEC documents may be obtained here. CEBC members may contact the CEBC office to request electronic copies of some ACEC documents.
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ACEC 31 Prime Agreement between Client and Engineer
- ACEC 32 Agreement between Engineer and Subconsultant
For municipal projects, CEBC also endorses the MMCD Standard Client-Consultant Agreement, and other MMCD documents.
The sidebar menu has links to several standard contracts and guidelines that will be of interest to CEBC members.
Contract Language Management Plan
Negotiating the proper agreement is essential to reducing your liability. The purpose of the Contract Language Management Plan is to provide CEBC members with a guide to developing the appropriate contractual agreement between the Client and the Consultant.
Consulting Engineers Fee Guideline
CEBC publishes a Consulting Engineers Fee Guideline providing information about hourly chargeout rates for professional and technical services. The 2011 edition of the Fee Guideline is available here. The document is updated annually.
CEBC is working with APEGBC to develop a Budget Guidelines for Engineering Services document, to assist client groups in planning for building, transportation and infrastructure projects. The Budget Guidelines should be available by fall 2009 and, together with the Consulting Engineers Fee Guideline, will replace the Fee Guidelines for Engineering Services (1996).
More general information about consulting
fees is contained in the CEBC Commentary article Consulting Fees in Perspective and The Business of Consulting Engineering. |
