Lawyers are often asked to prepare and negotiate agreements with architects and contractors. When using standardized industry form agreements such as the American Institute of Architects Contract ...

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has released the second part of the 2017 edition of the A201 design-bid-build family of documents. The contract forms are updated once every 10 years. This ...

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently released the 2017 edition of eleven standard construction and design contract forms, and it plans to release revisions to an additional eighteen ...

[This is Part I of a four-part series discussing the new AIA 2017 forms. Part II will discuss the general conditions to the construction contract (A201-2017); Part III will discuss the Owner—Architect ...

In their Construction Law, Kenneth M. Block and John-Patrick Curran, partners of Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt, write that while the owner's rider can be modified to reflect the terms of a ...

Every 10 years or so the American Institute of Architects (AIA) updates and revises its standard form family of construction documents and in 2007 the AIA modified the AIA A-201 contract to add the ...

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Given the weakened state of the U.S. economy, it’s no surprise that the construction industry continues the struggle to keep its head above water. In fact, the semi-annual Consensus Construction ...

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