The project planning contract basically conforms to the contract between the principal and architect (planner).
Contract elements can be formed during project planning:
Strategic planning
- Principal requirements clarification
- Project objectives
- Rough usage programme
- Record of existing buildings and the surroundings
- Budget framework
- Scheduling framework
Pre-studies
- Project definition
- Definitive usage programme
- Rough construction usage
- Idea competition
- Rough cost estimate
- Project planning budget
- Investment accounting and profits calculation
- Key schedule information
Project planning
Pre-project
- Adjusted space programme
- Draft concepts
- Provisional construction specifications and plan
- Cost estimate
- Fee tenders and contracts
- Draft payment plan
- Rough schedule (milestones)
Construction project
- Construction description
- Detail studies
- Permission project
- Specifications of the construction approval
- Cost estimates
- Execution budget
- Financing plan
- Payment plan
- Schedule programme