Clarifying Fabrication and Installation Responsibilities
The shop makes and delivers. Someone else installs. Most site problems on a healthcare package come from that boundary not being written down.
A component leaving a fabrication shop is finished. A component in a building is installed. The gap between those two states is where responsibility has to be assigned before work starts, not after something does not fit.
What the fabricator does
Cutting, forming, welding, inspection against specification, coordinated finishing, packing and delivery. Every part is checked before it leaves the floor, and it leaves identifiable: components organized and labelled, hardware bagged and matched to each assembly.
KorFab does not install. It fabricates, finishes through partner shops and delivers installation ready components. That is a deliberate scope, not a limitation to be worked around quietly on a purchase order.
What the installer does
Setting the component, anchorage, final connection, alignment and any field adjustment. Where a component has to meet a condition that only exists on site, such as a cast in embed that moved, the resolution sits with the party installing unless the fabricator is asked to remake a part to a revised dimension.
The three questions that settle it
- Who confirms field dimensions? On healthcare projects, coordination drawings and site conditions often differ. The answer needs to be a name rather than an assumption.
- Who receives the delivery and checks it? A component signed for by someone who does not know what it is becomes a component that is "missing" three weeks later.
- Who is responsible for touching up or repairing finish after installation? Coating happens before delivery, and site handling damages coatings.
Supplier supplied items
Where the component is part of a system with equipment, the equipment supplier usually has its own requirements about the supporting structure. Those requirements belong in the drawing package, because a bracket fabricated to a generic detail and a bracket fabricated to the equipment vendor's template are not the same part.
Writing it down
A short scope statement on the order, listing what is fabricated, what is finished, what is delivered and what is explicitly not included, removes most of the risk. It also protects both parties: an installer who knows finishing happens before delivery will plan lifting and storage differently.
Related
Ordering components for healthcare construction covers the project context. What to include when components need freight covers the delivery handoff that follows the scope agreement.