Architect, contract according to HOAI 2013 - refuses to provide service

sichtbeton82, of course I am not particularly interested in changing the architect, but I don't see any real alternative here. If his demands are justified, that would at least be a … surprise. But for now, I am waiting to see what the lawyer says. Since the resumption of construction work (March 26), the architect has been on the site only once, on April 14 for 1 hour. Appointments that he himself scheduled were simply not kept by him. The contractor was left alone and waited.

I would have kicked him out long ago, especially for the money you're paying. Sorry for you, but that really sounds bitter. You want things to move forward, but the old guy doesn't even use the second/third/x-th chance.

The payment schedule was posted by sichtbeton82, I don't understand why you want to expand the payment schedule by an additional metric "presence on the construction site"? You won't get far with that, whether he is also the construction manager or not.

If the ground floor construction plan is missing, everything from including the performance phase 5 onwards is not yet completed, so already overpaid, you can pin him down on that. I wouldn't even start with the lack of presence in your position, because that only gives him a template that makes your claim/your objection flawed and vulnerable.

Under no circumstances would I pay anything else. He should rather break down what his invoice is based on for you. May I ask how much 18.5 percent of your construction sum is?

I don't want to badmouth old people, but if you hire a 72-year-old architect who is neither a grandpa nor the best great-grandson, you can't expect anything else.

What nonsense! : I can neither understand your architect's billing, nor your behavior of having paid so much so far, nor the "reference" with discouraging words. Somehow, it all seems a bit off. What advice can one give from the outside?

You may like to see it that way and in an ideal world it probably is like that, but unfortunately you won’t be able to buy anything with this point of view if, like the OP, you mess up architecturally. And honestly... if I had commissioned my architect up to service phase 8, I would still be on the construction site every day, pestering the craftsmen and inspecting the execution. And why? Because as the client, I am personally responsible for my construction site.

I can understand your attitude, yet it is not universally valid. Exactly for the points mentioned, one commissions a construction management, which, by the way, is also liable for it.

Lumpi_LE, well, he looked more like 66-68. I only found out when I saw his Architektenkammer certificate on Fratzbuch. You don't really ask something like that. Besides, he seems energetic, so that's not the reason.