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Interpreting "Health, Safety, and Welfare"
The primary requirement written into architectural practice acts for most U.S. states is that architects are licensed only for the purpose of...
Fiduciary Duty
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Protecting the Public via Fiduciary Duty
Architects are obligated to protect the public as a primary duty, but not the only duty. We wrote about architects having a fiduciary duty to the...
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What Is Conspectus's Approach to Fiduciary Duty?
New and Different The industry is changing. The emerging revolution is that licensed architects and engineers owe a fiduciary duty to owners. This...
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Fiduciary Duty for Design Professionals - an Introduction
In his blog post last week, David Stutzman presented several examples illustrating ways in which architects fail in their fiduciary duty to owners,...
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Can owners have trust and confidence in specifiers?
First, owners must know who the specifiers are before this question can be answered. Trust and confidence is an underlying core principle of the...