5.5 General Contractor Responsibilities


A. General: Cooperate fully with the Food Service Consultant so work may be carried out smoothly, without interfering with or delaying other work for this Contract or work by Owner. 

B. The General Contractor (GC), or GC's designated sub shall be responsible for the following:

  1. Construction Waste and Disposal: Provide dumpsters for foodservice packaging.
  2.  Building Access: Provide proper building access for all equipment. 
  3.  Critical Dimensions: Carefully coordinate all critical dimensions with FSEC, especially for counters and other special fit items. Provide these dimensions as much in advance as possible to ensure sufficient time for FSEC's fabricator to fabricate these complex counters and "hold" dimensions. 
  4.  Provide refrigeration contractor with refrigeration pack rigging to curb. 
  5.  Floor, Ceiling and Wall Protection: Provide as necessary during the course of the entire project to ensure that no harm comes to any equipment and or new finishes. 
  6. Coordinate the sequencing of all equipment and items which potentially might adversely affect the installation of same by improper sequencing. 
  7.  Floor troughs: Set and level into concrete wet bed. 
  8.  Carefully coordinate with FSEC all coordinated finishes such as stainless-steel wall panels, location and heights. 
  9.  Coordinate recess depth: For Walk-In Refrigeration finished floor, thick set quarry tile or as per finish schedule 
  10.  Coordinate and provide concrete pads for remote compressors or rack system. 
  11.  Penetrations: Sealing of penetrations through rooftop and any sleeving of any walls required. 
  12.  Coordinate and supply tile work as needed in recess of millwork pockets. 
  13. Install FRP (wall panels) in food preparation areas to meet Board of Health sanitation requirements. 
  14. Host regular Foodservice Specific meetings. Attendees include: 
    1. Architect. 
    2. Food Service Consultant. 
    3. Dining Service representative. 
    4. FSEC. 
    5. Electrical Contractor. 
    6. Plumbing Contractor.
  15. Host occasional meeting with vendor/owner provided equipment installers and refrigeration contractor as required. 
  16. Fire Protection System: Coordinate the items below. 
    • Wiring to building alarm monitoring stations. 
    • Installation of gas valves (sized by MEC, supplied by FPSC). 
    • Wiring between gas valve and Automan (control head unit).  
    • In wall recesses for remote pull stations – See detail EXH-1 
    • Power supply and electrical connection to Automan. 
  1. Contractor shall issue a letter, signed by all sub-contractors involved and co-signed by Owner's representative stating that staff have been satisfactorily instructed in the use of the equipment. 
  2.  GC to consolidate all punch list inspection reports to one report, Food Service, Architects, Engineers, and GC.

C. Composite Crews and Claims of Jurisdiction:

  1. The FSEC will be expected to bring all foodservice items to the site and set these items in their proper locations using their labor force.