Design

JSC «RNGM» acts as a General designer of storage tanks, tank farms for storage of liquid and bulk materials and oil depots. The role of a General designer during construction is an important part of future business success. A successful project enables to create a competitive advantage. It is the General Designer that is fully responsible for the project – from idea to its realization.

The main objectives of a General designer are, firstly, conceptual design and coordination of the project concept with the customer, and secondly, complex project documentation development and its brining to a single project.

The General Designer also provides centralized engineering control of project subcontractors, ensures development of a complete set of initial permit documentation for approval in the state bodies and preparation of working documentation, which is created when the project passes state examination.

General designer is responsible for the integrated development of high-quality projects and cost estimates within a fixed time frame, for economic indicators, as well as for performance of obligations under the Urban Planning Code of the Russian Federation, normative documents of Russian Federation and regulatory provisions of the General Designer function documents.

According to the main objective the General Designer is obliged to:

• Рerform obligations in the sphere of development of high-quality design and estimate documentation and its quality control;
• Issue initial data for development of design and estimate documentation;
• Ensure completeness and quality of initial design data issued by Designer;  
• Prepare, together with design and survey organizations tasks for design and estimate documentation development, conduct its approval in due course;
• Conduct contracts on design and survey, construction and if necessary research works with the corresponding organizations;
• Negotiate the schedule of development and issue of design and estimate documentation with a Designer;
• Control schedule fulfillment;
• Organize approval and reapproval of design and estimate documentation according to the established procedure (with definition of the contract price), as well as revision of the relevant documentation based on comments and conclusions of contractors and expertizing bodies.

According to the main objective the General Designer’s obligations are:

• Participation in design task creation and choice of sites for construction;
• Estimation of scope, stages and cost of project works by agreement with the customer and contractor;
• Preparation and on time delivery of design and engineering specifications to subcontractors;
• Registration of contracts for execution of all types of design and survey works;
• It is not allowed to conduct direct contracts between a customer and individual specialized organizations without the consent of a general designer.
• Preparation of initial design data by order of the Customer and at his expense.
• Preparation of work schedule together with the Customer, Contractor, Design and Survey Subcontractors.
• Timely resolution of issues, which arise from subcontractors during design process, and from contractor during construction process.
• Coordination of subcontractors and coordination of architectural and planning, volumetric, technical solutions and environmental requirements executing design works.
• Coordination of basic technical decisions made by subcontractors during design process.
• Ensuring that projects conform to design task.
• Acceptance of finished project documentation from subcontractors.
• Selection of all the design and estimate documentation and its transfer to the customer, including documents developed by subcontractors. Subcontractors are responsible for development of high-quality documentation of the relevant parts of the project within the set time frame.
• Participation in examination, coordination and approval of project documentation according to the procedure established by valid guidelines.
• Organization of field supervision over implementation of design solutions and participation in object service acceptance.

Additional functions of a General Contractor may be included in the Contract with the Customer, which include:

• Creating a data bank on the ongoing and current construction of housing and public facilities,
• Engineering and transport infrastructure,
• Availability of project documentation,
• Condition of buildings and structures,
• Technical and economic parameters,
• Regulatory issues and etc.;
• Development of proposals for long-term plan of design and research works;
• Identification and study areas for housing and civil construction,
• Generalization and use of data for planning of economic and social development of the city and other functions.

JSC «RNGM» specialists will free you from the need to look for architects, engineers and other project participants, and also organize their work and distribute responsibilities between them. You do not need to coordinate a dozen companies in the various sections of the project documentation, verify correctness of data and monitor implementation of projects. General Designer is responsible to the customer for the work results of a selected sub-contractor.