Change Orders Process and Procedures

إجراءات التكليف بأعمال إضافية في عقود التشييد أسهل في إجراءاتها إلى حد ما من إسناد الأعمال بعقد منفصل لذلك يحاول يستفيد بها أصحاب العمل قدر الإمكان في حدود ما تسمح به النظم والقوانين وتتراوح نسبتها من 10 % إلى 25 % من قيمة العقد وبتصدر في شكل أمر تغييري. لذلك هي جزء هام جدا ورئيسي في ادارة العقود الهندسية

This may consist of additional or less work, a change in the specification of part of the work, or in some cases a change to the contractual basis of the project such as the contract price or period.

The event we will examine is the division of one large room on a project into two smaller rooms by the addition of a new blockwork partition wall, a new doorway, additional lighting and additional electrical power outlets.

In most construction contracts, the employer is permitted to make such changes, and this is usually administered by his appointed agents such as the Engineer under the FIDIC forms of contract.
Most standard forms of contract place the onus on the Engineer to issue instructions to vary the works and most will specifically prohibit the Contractor from carrying out variations without written instructions.

In an ideal world, such changes would be correctly administered by the Engineer by way of formal variation instructions, accompanied by additional information such as drawings and the like to enable the Contractor to carry out the varied work and, of course, the instructions would all be issued in plenty of time so as not to disrupt or delay the Contractor’s planned sequence of work in any way.