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The Do’s and Don’ts of Document Retention – More Paper or Paper-Less?

The Do’s and Don’ts of Document Retention – More Paper or Paper-Less?

04/02/2015
The Do’s and Don’ts of Document Retention – More Paper or Paper-Less?

Which is better, more or less documentation in your project file after the job is complete? Despite recent advances in technology, document retention has become a difficult, expensive and complex proposition. Computers have changed design professionals’ work flows and methods, greatly increasing efficiencies, but also exponentially multiplying the volume of data; e-mails, attachments, drawing revisions, text and voice messages, not to mention folks are still sending faxes and letters, actual paper ones. All of this adds up and can become an unmanageable mess, even for the best of us.

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California Supreme Court Rules Against California’s Architects in the Beacon v. Skidmore Owings Case

California Supreme Court Rules Against California’s Architects in the Beacon v. Skidmore Owings Case

12/29/2014
California Supreme Court Rules Against California’s Architects in the Beacon v. Skidmore Owings Case

The closely watched California Supreme Court case of Beacon Residential Community Association v. Skidmore Owings and Merrill et. al. has been decided, and the opinion is bad news for California Architects. The Court held that architects owe a duty of care to future homeowners in the design of residential buildings where the architect is a principal architect on the project, meaning that the architect is not a subordinate to other design professionals.

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Construction Phase Services: Considerations for a Successful Outcome

Construction Phase Services: Considerations for a Successful Outcome

Construction Phase Services: Considerations for a Successful Outcome

The construction phase is a dynamic time of a project and a design professional’s involvement is significant from a risk management perspective since it allows the design professional the opportunity to provide input during the construction of the project. Since no designs are perfect (and, moreover, are not expected to be perfect to still meet the standard of professional skill and care), all designs require some level of interpretation that is best done by the design professional who created them. During construction, the design professional can visit the jobsite to determine if construction is proceeding in general accordance with the plans and specifications and clarify the design intent when necessary. This article addresses issues design professionals should consider if they provide services during this phase.

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The Design Professional in the Age of BIM: Things that change; and things that don’t.

The Design Professional in the Age of BIM: Things that change; and things that don’t.

The Design Professional in the Age of BIM: Things that change; and things that don’t.

Seen any changes the past thirty years in the delivery of professional design services?  Sure, you have—particularly in the area of construction documents. Raised stools and drafting tables, pounce, and lead-darkened calluses on the middle finger of the draftsmen have, for the most part, yielded to CAD. Although CAD’s promise of error-free drawing may have proven elusive, many of its other promises have been fulfilled. Some even appear understated in hindsight—in part because CAD and the Internet seem to have been made for each other. Their combined effect reduces trying to list all the ways CAD has changed project delivery to a futile exercise. Like CAD in the ‘80’s, BIM seems to hold similar promise today—a fact not lost on contractors, A/E’s, and project owners alike.

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Waiver of Subrogation: A Valid Defense for Architects and Engineers?

Waiver of Subrogation: A Valid Defense for Architects and Engineers?

07/08/2014
Waiver of Subrogation: A Valid Defense for Architects and Engineers?

An attorney is asked to defend an architect in a claim for defective design of a geothermal HVAC system, which allegedly caused an explosion and several million dollars of property damage to an owner’s manufacturing facility. He reviews the file, making notes. The plaintiff is the owner’s casualty insurer, which has paid the claim and sued the general contractor in subrogation. It’s actually the general contractor who has named the architect as a third-party defendant, seeking contribution and indemnity. All sorts of interesting defenses present themselves: statute of repose (work was completed years ago), no common law indemnity claim, no negligence…but what about the contracts for the original project?

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