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Collaboration for a Better Tomorrow
Design and construction projects require an enormous number of participants to complete each facility. The basic teams include owners, architects,...
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Estimates of the Cost of Work
When is the architect required to prepare an estimate of the Cost of Work according to AIA Document B101 Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and...
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Is the Spec Open or Closed?
Is the contractor permitted to submit substitutions or propose comparable products? Not if the spec is closed, he is not. Be careful if you think you...
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Who is the Specifications Beneficiary?
Specifications are technical documents - part of a construction contract - describing contracting requirements. Is there really a beneficiary to such...
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A Script for Specifications - in 3 Acts
Writing is the easy part. Knowing what to write is another story.
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Tracking Issues Needing Resolution
Writing construction specifications is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle. Except puzzles always have a photo of the completed puzzle on the cover of...
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Benefits of Volunteering
There are many activities vying for everyone's time, and there are many reasons for selecting the activities in which to participate. Then there are...
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Learning and Sharing
Many state architectural licensing boards and AIA membership requires continuing education credits each year. The number of required credits is less...
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Sustainable Design - What's the Strategy?
A program at the Philadelphia AIA Design on the Delaware annual conference last week, discussed the legal aspects of green building. The panelists...
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Catch It in the Addendum
We see it time and again. The deadline approaches. The rush is on. All the delayed decisions and tasks are now urgent.