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Construction Field Services
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Q 17. The contractor hires an engineering firm to provide surveying and staking activities for a Davis-Bacon covered project. Are these workers subject to prevailing wages?
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Where surveying is performed immediately prior to and during actual construction, in direct support of construction crews, such activity is covered by Davis-Bacon requirements for laborers and mechanics. The determination of whether certain members of survey crews are laborers or mechanics is a question of fact. Such a determination must take into account the actual duties performed. As a general matter, an instrumentman or transitman, rodman, chainman, party chief, etc., are not considered laborers or mechanics. However, a crew member who primarily does manual work, for example, clearing brush, is a laborer and is covered for the time so spent.
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