The Editorial Notes

Engineering Contracts, Consulting Engineers & Government Departments 

A reprehensible practice among Consulting Engineers that leads to much delay and increased cost in the execution of our Engineering Projects needs to be brought to light and opposed vigorously:- It is the practice of evading their own responsibility by throwing on the contractors the onus of carrying out works and supplying items which the consulting engineers themselves had failed to include in their specifications : specifications which they had been called upon to prepare in the belief that they possessed the expert knowledge that their clients lacked.