Site supervision Wegberg Wegberg Kreis Heinsberg

Ingenieurbüro Konrad Smoczynski for Wegberg and the Heinsberg district

Site supervision in Wegberg. We are there when it matters

Every building site has parts that are visible for a few hours only. After that there is concrete over them, or plaster, or a lining. Anyone who does not look during those hours can afterwards only guess. We come for the visits where that difference is made.

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On site: Visits timed to your build
Checked: The work against drawing and calculation
Field: Building construction and structural engineering

Two site workers in hard hats and hi vis on a building site under an open roof structure — The looking happens on site, not at the desk.

01Enquiry

Tell us where you are building

Your name, a phone number and a few sentences about the site are enough. We call back and tell you which visits really matter in your programme and what supervision would mean in your case.

Phone: +49 2432 907 93 00
Email: info@ks-ingenieur.de
Address: Leichweg 3, 41849 Wassenberg
Call back: On working days, usually the same day.

The enquiry commits you to nothing. You get a quotation once the scope is clear.

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02Windows

Four windows that do not come round again

Site supervision is largely a question of timing. These four states are open for a short while and then closed for the life of the building. A visit for them is in the diary before the contractor turns up.

Reinforcement before the pour

Open for A few hours

Bar positions, lap lengths, cover and the spacers. Once the concrete is in, only what was checked beforehand still counts.

Waterproofing before the build up

Open for One working day

Junctions with rising elements, penetrations and transitions. Finding a leak under a finished build up costs many times what a visit costs.

Services before plastering

Open for One to two days

Runs, boxes and openings are recorded while they are still visible. Everyone who later wants to drill into a wall needs those records.

Shell before the lining

Open for Until the trade arrives

Grid dimensions, openings, bearings and connections against the working drawing. After drylining and facade every correction is a demolition.

NoteWhat is recorded inside those windows can later be evidenced. What is not recorded stays one assertion against another.

03A visit

What actually happens during a visit

A site visit is not a stroll around the plot. It follows a fixed order, and it ends with something written that reaches you the same day.

Step 01
Record the state of the works

First we note how far the site has got, which contractors are working and what the weather was. Those notes carry every later statement about programme.
Step 02
Inspect at the element

Then the element itself is examined, with the drawing and the calculation alongside. Measurements are taken where a deviation would have consequences, not evenly everywhere.
Step 03
Speak to the contractors

A great deal is settled on the spot while the people involved are still standing there. What cannot be settled is described and located.
Step 04
Report what cannot wait

Anything touching cost, programme or structural safety reaches you the same day. The rest goes into the running record.

Is a visit coming up where somebody ought to be present? Give us the date and we will tell you whether we can make it.

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04Services

What you can commission

The supervision as a whole, or individual services from it. Both are possible, even where the design and the structural calculations have long sat with another office.

Site supervision: Running the site on your behalf: programme, coordination between trades and continuous checking of the work.
Construction monitoring: Monitoring in building construction and structural engineering. The comparison between drawing, calculation and what is actually installed.
Working drawings: Working drawings and bar schedules, so that the site works to a drawing rather than to a sketch.
Tender documents: Tender documents in building construction and structural engineering, as a basis for offers that can be compared.
Survey of existing buildings: Measured survey and digitisation of existing buildings, where work is done in an existing structure and usable records are missing.
Structural engineering: Design and calculation in structural engineering, including special structures outside ordinary building construction.

Not sure which scope suits your site? Describe it briefly, placing it costs nothing.

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05Quantities

Quantities, variations, invoices

The second half of site supervision does not happen on the scaffold but at the desk. It decides what a site ends up costing.

Measure while you still can

Quantities are taken while the element is still accessible. An invoice for a quantity nobody can measure any more can only be believed or refused.

Variations before they exist

A variation is examined before the work is carried out. Afterwards the price is a negotiation without an alternative, because the element already stands.

Invoices against the real state

Interim invoices are held against the actual state of the works and not against the calendar. Payment ahead of the work is the commonest avoidable loss.

NoteWe check and we recommend. Nothing is released without you, and nothing is ordered that you do not know about.

06Images

Six states, six visits

The photographs show the states this page is about, in the order in which they occur on a building site.

Close view of stacked reinforcement mesh in black and white — Reinforcement Before the pour

A tradesman screeding fresh mortar against an aluminium rule, a mortar tub beside him — Concreting On the day of the work

A worker holding a spirit level against a plastered wall — Level and line Structural shell

Rafters and purlins of a timber roof structure seen from inside — Roof structure Before covering

An unfinished interior with a ladder, a work table and exposed electrical points — Fit out Before the lining

A person in a helmet and hi vis vest entering findings on a form held on a clipboard — Handover At the end of the works

NoteThe photographs illustrate typical construction states. They do not show particular projects of the office.

07Engineer

Who comes to the site

What stands on the site is not a rotating team but the office itself. These are the qualifications behind it, each with its number and the year it was obtained.

A worker in a hard hat and hi vis holding documents, with a structural shell behind

Civil engineering: Master of Science RWTH, degree completed in 2012
Chamber of Engineers NRW: Voluntary member, registered in 2017, membership number 730097
Qualified structural designer: Qualification obtained in 2019, authorisation number QT1542
Building submission entitlement NRW: Qualification obtained in 2019, authorisation number V3693
Professional indemnity: VHV Allgemeine Versicherung AG, Dortmund, cover for Germany

NoteFor individual services the office works with freelancers, partners and building contractors from North Rhine-Westphalia.

08Area

Wegberg and the places around it

The office sits in Wassenberg, a good twenty minutes by car from most of the Wegberg villages. On a supervised site that closeness is not a detail: a visit that becomes necessary at short notice has to be possible at short notice.

Places whose sites we drive to

Wegberg
Beeck
Rickelrath
Klinkum
Merbeck
Wildenrath
Arsbeck
Dalheim
Rödgen
Uevekoven
Rath-Anhoven
Tüschenbroich
Harbeck
Erkelenz
Wassenberg
Hückelhoven
Niederkrüchten
Schwalmtal
Mönchengladbach

NoteIf your place is not on the list, ask anyway. Within North Rhine-Westphalia something can almost always be arranged.

Town: Wegberg
District: Kreis Heinsberg
Office address: Leichweg 3, 41849 Wassenberg
Phone: +49 2432 907 93 00

09Questions

Common questions about site supervision

What clients in Wegberg most often want to know before they commission supervision.

Do I need supervision if I am building with a contractor?

The contractor has its own site management, and that represents the contractor. Supervision on the client side looks at the same site, but from your point of view. The two do not exclude each other, they are two different roles.

How often do you come to the site?

To the programme, not to the calendar. During foundations and the structural shell the visits are close together, because elements disappear there. During fit out it is more about the interfaces between trades. We agree the rhythm at the start.

Can you step in once building has started?

Yes. We then first record what has already been built and fix that state, so it is later clear what predated our involvement. The earlier we start, the more of it is still visible.

Do you take on the contractor liability?

No. The contractor owes its work under the contract and under the recognised rules of technology, and that stays where it is. Supervision makes sure deviations are noticed while they can still be put right.

What does supervision cost?

The fee follows the German HOAI scale and depends on the scope and on how long the site runs. You get a quotation beforehand that describes the scope. Individual visits can also be commissioned separately.

What do I get in writing?

The running record of the visits with the state of the works and photographs of the construction states, together with the measured quantities needed for accounting and the reports of deviations with their dates.

Do you also do the design and the structural calculations?

Yes, both sit in the office. That is not a requirement for supervision, but it helps: whoever calculated the structure knows on site where a deviation really counts.