Make a responsibility table for the project team

For every prerequisite or interface, identify who assesses the requirement, who authorizes it, who performs the work and who provides the needed confirmation. One party may hold several roles, but do not assume that without agreement.

Include questions outside the demolition scope, such as professional assessment, service coordination or preparation for the next trade. Ask each provider to explain its own boundary. A demolition company’s involvement does not establish that it offers engineering or regulated trade services.

Use the relevant authority’s verification process where a regulated role is involved. ESA states that electrical work hired out in an Ontario home must be performed by a Licensed Electrical Contractor. Do not treat a general contractor’s involvement as evidence of that licence.

Keep the responsible provider’s identity and applicable confirmation with the project records. Ask about uncertainty directly rather than relying on a logo, a photograph or a verbal statement passed through another person.

Add the information each task needs from the previous one and who receives its result. Update the table if the scope or team changes. Send YAK a summary of the providers already involved and ask which parts of the proposed demolition require further coordination before a scope can be agreed.