Five AIA Contract Documents are going green. Developed using AIA’s flagship documents as a base, and incorporating concepts and model language from the AIA’s Guide for Sustainable Projects, the new ...

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 ...

In their Construction Law column, Melissa Billig and Brandon Reiner discuss five pitfalls to avoid when using standardized industry form agreements with architects and contractors. Lawyers are often ...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has changed the way construction industry participants interact with each other and communicate internally. Project plans have moved beyond two-dimensional design ...

Trustees of the Associated Specialty Contractors (ASC), Bethesda, Md., recently voted to endorse the 2007 update to the AIA Document A401-2007 Standard Form of Agreement between Contractor and ...

As you probably have heard by now, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) introduced its updated versions of its most popular standard form contracts in April of 2017. However, many owners, ...

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 ...

[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 ...

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is set to release revisions to its A201 contract documents today. These forms, the most widely used in the construction industry, define the legal ...

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 ...

If you’ve landed your first AIA job or you’re thinking about bidding on one, you might feel overwhelmed about the AIA billing process. It’s hard to find example AIA billing applications (until now!).