FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 29, 2024
Contact: Katie LaPotin, Executive/Marketing Director
(571) 396-5495
EJCDC® Announces Release of EJCDC® E-560, Engineer – Land Surveyor Subconsultant Agreement, 2024 Edition
Alexandria, VA – EJCDC® is pleased to present EJCDC® E-560, Agreement Between Engineer and Land Surveyor for Professional Services, 2024 Edition.
EJCDC® E‑560, Agreement between Engineer and Geotechnical Subconsultant for Professional Services, is intended to be used by an engineering firm (“Engineer”) to delegate (subcontract) the land surveying portion of its contractual obligations under a prime agreement with a Project owner to a land surveyor or surveying firm (“Land Surveyor”). The document is best suited to delegation in which the prime agreement between Engineer and Owner is based on EJCDC® E‑500, Agreement between Owner and Engineer for Professional Services, or on one of the other EJCDC® Owner-Engineer agreement forms, but E-560 may also be used when the prime agreement is not an EJCDC®-based document.
EJCDC® E-560, Agreement Between Engineer and Land Surveyor for Professional Services, 2024 Edition is a comprehensive update of the standard EJCDC® professional services subagreement for land surveying services. The document has been substantially reorganized for consistency with EJCDC®’s other professional services agreements and has been updated to include additional practice content and user guidance.
E-560 2024 is coordinated with EJCDC® E-500, Agreement Between Owner and Engineer for Professional Services, both in terms of substantive content and structure/organization. To aid the Engineer in managing its subconsultant team and minimize conflicts among the Engineer’s subagreements, E-560 2024 also closely follows EJCDC® E-570, Agreement Between Engineer and Subconsultant for Professional Services, 2020 Edition.
A new Main Agreement Article 9 “Special Land Surveying Provisions” has been created in E-560 to help users more easily address general agreement matters and terms that are unique and specific to the Land Surveyor – Engineer relationship. The “Special Land Surveying Provisions” identifies and modifies the Engineer’s standard subconsultant agreement clauses (from E-570) to apply specifically to the Land Surveyor. Article 9 also can include certain key technical requirements to assure those matters are covered when the parties are using a custom scope attachment rather than EJCDC®’s Exhibit A Scope of Services.
The most notable other additions and clarifications to the update include:
- Acknowledgement that project-related Management of Land Surveyor’s Services is an important part of the standard scope of services, and assigning it a specific section under Basic Services;
- Enhanced guidance on establishing the baseline scope of services with provisions for considering various survey methodologies and technologies for the services and updating the required scope as the actual project conditions and methodologies become known or change;
- Updated utility coordination language including the land surveyor in collaboration with Engineer, Owner, and their project utility consultants for determining appropriate project utility investigation and mapping procedures, statutory requirements, sharing of utility information, options for applicability of ASCE 38-22, and limitations of survey methods and technologies applicable to the selected utility investigations;
- Addition of “Utility Installation and Relocation” as an optional project surveying service during the Construction Phase to aid Engineer and Owner in better record keeping of construction activities during the project’s Underground Facilities Procedure;
- Clearer acknowledgement of statutory requirements, such as local standards and recording, applicable to many land surveying activities;
- New, stand-alone Deliverables Schedule to combine schedule information into one exhibit and better reflect typical user schedule development practice;
- Addition of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Cyber Liability insurance in the insurance table as a coverage option reminder to users, when these coverages are applicable to the surveying services provided;
- Clarification of payment and expense provision language while maintaining the E-Series’ standard and balanced subconsultant “Time for Engineer’s Payment of Invoices” options;
- Inclusion of an Electronic Documents Protocol (EDP) exhibit to promote and manage use of electronic documents among the project parties;
- Clarification of responsibility for safety, traffic control and site restoration during Land Surveyor’s subconsultant activities;
- Relocation and re-naming of various exhibits to match recent updates of other EJCDC professional services agreements and user practices.
In keeping with EJCDC’s other 2020 Series updates, E-560 2024 now uses the term “Subconsultant” rather than “Consultant” for engineering, land surveying and other professional firms retained by the Engineer.
E-560 2024 is packaged in two parts: (1) The Main Agreement and (2) The Exhibits. As with E-500 and E-570, the 2024 edition of E-560 is published as two separate Word files, one file containing the Main Agreement form and the second file containing the Exhibits (A through J). Both files contain integral building blocks of an Engineer – Land Surveyor subagreement, and each E-560 purchase will result in transmittal (download) to the purchaser of both files.
Because most users develop the Main body of the agreement separately from the scope, schedule, cost and other project attachments, delivery of E-560 in two manageably sized files is consistent with common practice and project customization. After all editing has been completed (in Word) in for each part of the agreement, each of the two files can be converted to a PDF, and as the final step the two PDF files can then be merged into a single contract document, in PDF.
The EJCDC® E-560 is currently available for purchase in the online store at EJCDC.org. Members of EJCDC®’s sponsoring organizations (the American Council of Engineering Companies, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the American Society of Civil Engineers – Construction Institute) can also purchase this document directly from those organizations starting today at a 50% discount.
Over the last 50 years, Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee (EJCDC®) has developed and updated fair and objective standard documents specifically written for infrastructure projects in the United States. Each EJCDC® Contract Document is systematically prepared, reviewed and analyzed by committees of experienced engineering design and construction professionals, owners, contractors, professional liability and risk management experts, with the participation and advice of legal counsel.
For more information, please contact EJCDC® Executive/Marketing Director Katie LaPotin at katie@ejcdc.org or (571) 396-5495.
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