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Reliance on Letter Agreement Defeats Architect’s Copyright Claim

Construction Lawyer

LEXIS 118757 (August 26, 2014), illustrates once again that letter agreements should be avoided by design professionals. Some time later, the architect drafted an AIA contract which the owner marked up with various changes. The architect did not accept any of the changes and the AIA contract was never signed.

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Poor Contract Drafting Leads to Ambiguity as to Whether Arbitration Is Required

Construction Lawyer

Nordic PCL Construction , provides a lesson in how not to draft construction agreements. Subsequently, Safeway made further revisions to various contract documents, including an AIA Document A101-1997 and A201-1997. The final executed documents contain numerous modifications to the standard form AIA documents.

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Forum Selection Clauses in Construction Subcontracts Require Careful Drafting

Construction Lawyer

17, 2013), demonstrates the difficulty faced by parties in drafting appropriate forum selection provisions in construction agreements. The prime agreement between Weisel and Ryan consisted of an AIA Document A111 (presumably a 1997 version) and an AIA Document A201 (also presumably the 1997 version). Dist, Sept.

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Implied Copyright License

Construction Lawyer

If the contract between the parties does not mention license, but gives a general permission to use the plans, an implied license can be inferred. The standard AIA agreements contain an express license. For instance, AIA Document B101 (2007), the owner-architect agreement, contains this provision: § 7.3

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constructionattorneyblog: AIA plans change to Statute of Limitations.

Construction Lawyer

He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular construction law column for The Construction Specifier. He is a Fellow of the AIA as well as the Association of Licensed Architects.

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constructionattorneyblog: New AIA documents and Arbitration

Construction Lawyer

He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular construction law column for The Construction Specifier. He is a Fellow of the AIA as well as the Association of Licensed Architects.

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Moving from Design-Build, DB, to Integrated Project Delivery, IPD

Building Information Management

Through downstream agreements, the major team players can also agree to waive certain liabilities against each other. They enter into a BIM Agreement and share information freely, using BIM to facilitate target value design and a central server to allow full information transparency. JOC Process.

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