The builders are complaining about the low quality of the project documentation

Prague - Builders complain about the quality of project documentation, which has worsened mainly among public sector investors. Four out of ten projects had to be redone by companies due to serious deficiencies. As a result, construction costs increased by up to a fifth. This is according to the Quarterly Analysis of the Czech Construction Industry prepared by CEEC Research and SGCP, a division of Weber. The Czech News Agency has part of this available.
    Currently, the quality of project documentation is evaluated by construction company directors as below average. According to a third (32%) of them, it has worsened compared to previous years. A slight majority (55%) of companies rate the quality of outputs from project companies as the same as before. Only one in ten (13%) construction companies praises the higher quality of projects.
    “The projects according to which construction companies are currently carrying out construction were prepared in the previous crisis years. At that time, the prices of project works were at a minimum, in some cases even dumping, and that of course reflected on the quality of the construction projects currently being implemented. This is a very serious issue with a high risk for the safety of the buildings themselves,” noted Jiří Vacek, director of the analytical company CEEC Research.
    The submitted project documentation had to be corrected due to significant deficiencies in almost four out of ten cases (39%). These corrections, on average, carried up to an 18% increase in total construction costs, and it was necessary to incur them in such a way that the resulting work was constructed as user-friendly despite poor project documentation. A year earlier, these additional costs were around 12%.
    “Tenders for construction work contractors, where the cheapest wins, are occurring equally in the project market. The result is that the project documentation really only contains what is absolutely necessary. Then it easily happens that details are missing, which can lead to a number of inaccuracies,” stated Robert Mikeš, marketing director at Saint Gobain Construction Products, a division of Weber.
    Vladimír Steiner, the operating director of Schindler, blames the current situation mainly on the investors. “They do not put enough pressure on the designers so that projects can be implemented according to the work they submitted. Competing for the lowest price logically continues to manifest in the quality of the outputs,” claims Steiner.