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missal of the clerk, of the works is to be subject 

 to the approval of the architect. 



Consultation fees for professional advice are 

 to be paid in proportion to the importance of 

 the questions involved, at the discretion of the 

 architect. 



None of the charges above enumerated cover 

 professional or legal services connected with 

 negotiations for site, disputed party walls, 

 right of light, measurement of work, or serv- 

 ices incidental to arrangements consequent 

 upon the failure of contractors during the per- 

 formance of the work. When such services 

 become necessary, they shall be charged for 

 according to the time and trouble involved. 



Drawings and specifications, as instruments 

 of service, are the property of the architect. 



The table of charges for preliminary studies, 

 referred to in the second paragraph from the 

 beginning, specifies that the minimum charge 

 shall be $50 ; that for works costing from 

 $5,000 to $50,000 the charge shall be one per 

 cent, of the proposed cost ; and that for higher 

 amounts the charges shall be a sum equal to 

 two and a half times the square root of the 

 lowest cost. Thus for work costing from 

 $50,000 and under $75,000 the charge shall 

 be $559; between $1,000,000 and $1,250,000, 

 $2,500; between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000, 

 $5,000, and so on. 



The schedule of professional practice as to 

 the charges of architects adopted by the Royal 

 Institute of British Architects, partly because 

 it has been deliberately made longer, and partly 

 because it includes some topics which are 

 omitted in the American schedule. But it will 

 be interesting to compare the two, and its re- 

 production will be a further elucidation of the 

 subject. 



ENGLISH SCHEDULE OF CHARGES. 



i. The usual remuneration for an archi- 

 tect's services, except as hereinafter mentioned, 

 is a commission of five per cent, on the total 

 cost of works executed under his directions. 

 Such total cost is to be valued as though ex- 

 ecuted by a builder with new materials. This 

 commission is for the necessary preliminary 

 conferences and sketches, approximate esti- 

 mate when required (such, for instance, as 

 may be obtained by cubing out the contents), 

 the necessary general and detailed drawings 

 and specifications, one set of tracings, duplicate 

 specification, general superintendence of works, 

 and examining and passing the accounts, ex- 

 clusive of measuring and making out extras 

 and omissions. 



2. This commission does not include the 

 payment for services rendered in connection 

 with negotiations relating to the site or 

 premises, or in supplying drawings to ground 

 or other landlords, or in surveying the site or 

 premises and taking levels, making surveys and 

 plans of buildings to be altered, making ar- 

 rangements in respect of party walls and rights 

 of light, or for drawings for and correspond- 

 ence with local and other authorities, or for 

 services consequent on the failure of builders 

 to carry out the works, or for services in con- 

 nection with litigation or arbitration, or in the 

 measurement and valuation of extras and 

 omissions. For such services additional 

 charges proportionate to the trouble involved 

 and time spent are made. The clerk of the 

 works should be appointed by the architect, 

 his salary being paid by the client. 



3. In all works of less cost than £1,000, and 

 in works requiring designs for furniture and 

 fittings of buildings, or for their decoration 

 with painting, mosaics, sculpture, stained glass, 

 or other like works, and in cases of alterations 

 and additions to buildings, five per cent is not 

 remunerative, and the architect's charge is 

 regulated by special circumstances and con- 

 ditions. 



(Continued in September Number) 



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