204. Architects and engineers.

In large contracts, the employer will usually¹ require the services of a professionally qualified person to design² the work, to prepare the contract documents and to ensure compliance with the requirements of planning³ and building regulations⁴. Usually the person chosen to design a building or building works will be a professionally qualified architect (or a firm or company of architects) and the person engaged to design civil and other types of engineering works will be a chartered or other qualified engineer and a member of an institution such as the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Structural Engineers,