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4 ways to streamline your architectural practice

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4 ways to streamline your architectural practice 0 qpurcell Fri, 03/15/2024 - 13:16 Architects Vessel Architecture's Lindsay Straatmann, AIA, highlights four habits that have helped her discover the key to mastering efficiency as an architect. The more energy we expend on decision-making, the less energy remains for subsequent tasks.

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Reliance on Letter Agreement Defeats Architect’s Copyright Claim

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LEXIS 118757 (August 26, 2014), illustrates once again that letter agreements should be avoided by design professionals. The architect was hired to design a restaurant for the owner. Some time later, the architect drafted an AIA contract which the owner marked up with various changes. The lawsuit followed.

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

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Providing the opportunity for the kind of collaboration that the construction industry so badly needs… Design-Build has a spectrum, ranging from almost as dysfunctional … all the way to almost as collaborative as Integrated Project Delivery. Shifting Design-Build toward IPD. Owners, this is bad for you.

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Revit Beginners: Revit's Drafting Machine

Revit Beginners

Revits Drafting Machine. For those of you who remember using drafting machines mounted to a drafting table youll find a similar tool in Revit. Now any lines or walls that you draft will snap to the gridlines of your workplane. We design traditional, high-end residential work. Design Reform. Find Consultants.

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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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Implied Copyright License

Construction Lawyer

The standard AIA agreements contain an express license. For instance, AIA Document B101 (2007), the owner-architect agreement, contains this provision: § 7.3 The Architect shall obtain similar nonexclusive licenses from the Architect’s consultants consistent with this Agreement. The trial court agreed.

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constructionattorneyblog: New AIA documents and Arbitration

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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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