ABSTRACT
In an effort to start the job and, having started it, maintaining reasonable progress, the contractor sometimes assumes more than his fair share of responsibility. This kind of error may only become obvious when site works are in progress. Clearly the contractor may have carried out many thousands of pounds worth of work by that time. Although the contractor's course of action is, in fact, inaction until he receives proper drawings, most contractors would try to make progress by setting out a number of pegs for the architect to inspect. The contractor will be involved in a considerable amount of additional work if he elects to attempt to set out from inadequate drawings and this procedure cannot be recommended. In practice architects are usually reluctant to bring others onto the site to do the work unless relations have deteriorated considerably, the work has little prospect of being completed or the project is almost completed.
