North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 01 - ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 30 - STATE CONSTRUCTION › Subchapter D - STATE BUILDING COMMISSION DESIGNER AND CONSULTANT SELECTION POLICY › Section .0100 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 30D .0103 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
For purposes of this Subchapter, the following definitions
					 shall apply:
(1) "Annual Service
				  Agreement" means an open end agreement for professional services with a
				  designer or consultant, subject to the limitations of the Rule in this
				  Subchapter.
(2) "Capital Projects
				  Coordinator" means the individual authorized by each funded agency to
				  coordinate all capital improvement projects and related matters with the State
				  Construction Office and to represent that agency on all matters presented to
				  the SBC. The individual so designated for purposes of the Rules in this
				  Subchapter may have other titles within his agency but shall carry out the
				  duties assigned herein to the Capital Projects Coordinator. Whenever the
				  Capital Projects Coordinator is referenced herein, it shall be understood to
				  include a designated assistant or representative.
(3) "Consultant" means any individual, firm,
				  partnership, corporation, association or other legal entity selected for
				  planning and studies of an architectural and engineering nature associated with
				  a capital improvement project. The consultant must be licensed to practice
				  architecture or engineering in the State of North Carolina.
(4) "Contact person" means the person named
				  in the public advertisement who shall be the Capital Projects Coordinator or
				  his designee.
(5) "Designer" means
				  any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other legal
				  entity licensed to practice architecture, engineering, or landscaping
				  architecture in the State of North Carolina.
(6) "Funded agency" means the department,
				  agency, authority, or office that is named in the legislation appropriating
				  funds for the design and/or or construction project.
(7) "Major projects" means those capital
				  improvement projects whose authorized funding or estimated cost is greater than
				  five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) or a planning study activity whose
				  authorized funding is greater than fifty thousand dollars
				  ($50,000.00).
(8) "Minor projects"
				  means those capital improvement projects whose authorized funding or estimated
				  cost is five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) or less or a planning or
				  study activity whose authorized funding is fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00)
				  or less. Minor projects may also include a grouping of small non-specified or
				  anticipated projects whose aggregate total falls within the minor project cost
				  limitations.
(9) "Professional
				  services" means those services within the scope of the practice of
				  architecture, engineering or landscape architecture as defined by the public
				  laws of North Carolina.
(10)
				  "Special inspections" means detailed inspections of materials, installation,
				  fabrication, erection or placement of components and connections requiring
				  special expertise to ensure compliance with construction documents and
				  referenced standards as per Section 1704 of the NC State Building
				  Code.
(11) "Using agency" means the
				  sub-division of the funded agency for whose use the project is to be provided.
				  If the funded agency is so subdivided for administrative control, the using
				  agency would be a division, geographically self-contained facility, campus, or
				  similar body, as determined by the administrative head of the funded
				  agency.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 143-135.25;
					 143-135.26;
Eff.
					 January 1, 1988;
Amended Eff. June 1, 2005, May 1, 1990; April 1,
					 1989;
Pursuant to
					 G.S.
					 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
					 substantive public interest Eff. July 22,
					 2018.