The Coordinating Professional is a licensed professional engineer, architect, or landscape architect recognized as such by the project owner.
A Coordinating Professional is required when more than one licensed professional is involved with a project, such as two professional engineers, one professional engineer and one architect, two architects, and so on. The Coordinating Professional may, but need not, provide architectural or engineering services on the project.
The Coordinating Professional requirement has been part of the Nebraska E&A Regulation Act since 1997. Current Coordinating Professional references in the Act and Board rules are located in N.R.S. §§81-3408, 81-3437.02, and Rule Section 6.3.
The Coordinating Professional’s role is:
- To coordinate communication between the design professionals related to technical documents on the project;
- To act as project liaison with the governing building official; and
- To verify that all design disciplines involved in a project are working in coordination with one another and that any changes made to the design are approved by the corresponding discipline.
The Coordinating Professional must use the following language in conjunction with their individual seal for identification as the Coordinating Professional:
“I, (name of licensee), am the Coordinating Professional on the (name of project) project.”
The Coordinating Professional shall apply their seal in accordance with the E&A Act to the cover sheet of all documents and denote the seal as that of the coordinating professional.
The Coordinating Professional’s seal does not indicate responsible charge or direct supervision of the work.
The Coordinating Professional seal and language signifies the main point of contact for code officials or other professionals and should be on the cover sheet of all technical documents.