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Jan 03 2022

How the AIA’s New Custom Residential Agreements Help Custom Home Architects and Contractors

By Marika Snider, PhD, AIA, Principal Architect, Snider Architecture, LLC, Michael Bell, FAIA, Esq., President, Bell Architecture APC and Leonard Kady, FAIA, Principal, Leonard Kady Architecture + Design  The first AIA Contract Documents (ACD) of their kind, ACD’s new Custom Residential Documents streamline the contractual process for architects by tailoring them for the distinctive requirements […]

Written by Marika Snider · Categorized: Contract Documents · Tagged: AIA Contract Documents, contracts, residential architecture

Feb 15 2021

Contract Documents
for Small Firm Architects

You may have built your brand, perfected your marketing, developed a strong reputation, executed a flawless sales process, and have received your prospective client’s eager authorization to proceed with a new project. You’ve done everything right up to this point, but to make this new relationship official, you need to complete one final important step. […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Business, Contract Documents · Tagged: contract documents for architects, contracts, owner architect agreement

Apr 29 2011

Our Architectural Services Proposal

Several years ago, I attended a local AIA seminar presented by a fellow architect and the Chapter Council. The topic was “alternative agreements”. What I learned during that interactive meeting was that for some projects, selecting one of the many legal documents available from our national professional organizations an appropriate way to protect both the […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Contract Documents, Professional Practice

Apr 27 2011

Do you use AIA Contract Documents? Let’s talk agreements…

Several years ago, we constructed a new Proposal document that doubles as our Owner / Architect Agreement. It’s 5 pages long and, together with a separate 2 page “Standard Terms and Conditions” document, it includes all the protections of the AIA document… but looks and reads much friendlier. Fivecat Studio specializes in large residential additions […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: Business, Contract Documents, Professional Practice

Mar 16 2007

Partnering Architects

At this month’s meeting of the AIA Westchester / Mid-Huson Practice Management Committe we were discussing the subject of partnering (two architects working with a joint venture agreement). Among many interesting comments, the question of legal agreements was raised and I wondered if the AIA offered a document for architects looking to partner. As assumed, […]

Written by Mark R. LePage · Categorized: AIA, Contract Documents, Legal, Management, Partnering, Professional Practice

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