Combination of Supervision Resources

1. To facilitate the deployment of TCPs under different resources situations, a higher grade TCP may take up the duties of a lower grade TCP in his stream provided that the requirements for relevant qualifications and experience of the lower grade are satisfied.

1. Combination of supervision resources is only permitted for those types of works that are to be carried out concurrently on site.

1. In order to combine the resources required for one or more types of building works, or to combine the duties of TCPs, the application of scale factors as specified in paragraphs 8.4 to 8.11 should be followed and Form C at Appendix IV should be used for the calculations. Form C  should  be  appended to the supervision plan submitted to the BA.

1. In using Form C to calculate the combination of TCPs, the following steps should be followed :
2. List those types of building works or street works for which supervision resources are to be combined.
3. Group the types of works into concurrent and non-concurrent works (Column 1).    Only TCPs under concurrent works may be combined.
4. Obtain the Notional Supervision Input (Column 5) corresponding to the Frequency Level of Site Inspection from Table 8.2.
5. The Adjusted Supervision Input (Column 6) is the product of the Scale Factor (Column 2) and the Notional Supervision Input (Column 5).
6. List the grades of TCP that are to be combined in Column 7.

• List the grades of TCP with combined duties in Column 8.
• Sum up the Supervision Input required for those TCPs who are to be combined as the supervision input required for the TCP with combined duties (Column 9).
• Derive the number of TCP with combined duties (Column 10) and Frequency Level of Site Inspection required after the combination of TCPs (Column 11) using Tables 8.2 and 8.3. The derived frequency level of site inspection should not be less than the minimum inspection frequency as set down in Table 1 of the TM.

1. The AP, RSE and RGE, after calculating the supervision input in accordance with paragraph 8.15, may further combine TCPs of the three streams in accordance with the same principles.

1. If the different types of works are not to be grouped and that the duties of TCPs are not to be combined, the adjusted supervision input for different types of works with a scale factor of more than one should also be calculated in Form C by using columns 1 to 6 and 11.