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Originally Posted by rlw777
When the AOR is not also the design architect it generally means they provide construction documents and administration services based on the designs from the design architect. The design is the responsibility of the design architect not the Architect of Record. Neither is the engineering. I might add that this is an especially common arrangement (having a local AoR) when the design architect is from a different city or country.
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The AOR is responsible for all consultants under their agreement and their work, whether engineers or design architect. My comment was in direct response to the previous poster saying that bKL was not involved in the design or engineering.
In some instances, there are separate prime agreements between the Owner and design architect, AOR and EORs, but that is not typical for large projects where coordination between consultants is critical to project delivery, such as this.