New Software Enhancements and Revised Documents Available May 1, 2009
And now, we've made them easier and more robust than ever! The new AIA Contract Documents software release delivers greater ease-of-use, Microsoft Excel functionality and enhanced document management tools in addition to nine revised Construction Manager documents.
The new update includes:
- Data Dialog box that makes it easy to fill out documents quickly
- Customizing function that lets you save your favorite drafts as your own document templates for repeat use
- Microsoft Excel helps you calculate with speed and accuracy
- Document update includes nine revised Construction Manager agreements
BIM Exhibit
- E202 BIM Protocol Exhibit
Written by practitioners from across the industry, E202–2008 is easy to read and delivers what the industry needs: a practical tool for using BIM across the project.
E202–2008 is a hands-on working tool for all project participants that tackles head-on the following questions:
- Who is responsible for each element of the model and to what level of development?
- What are authorized uses for the model?
- To what extent can users rely on the model?
- Who will manage the model?
- Who owns the model?
Benefits:
- Specifies who is responsible for authoring each element of the model at each project phase, so no major design elements are missed or left unaddressed.
- Defines the extent to which downstream model users, such as contractors and fabricators, can use and rely on the model for scheduling, pricing, fabricating and construction.
- Assigns management of the model to a specific party by project phase, so there’s no confusion about who is managing the model at any time.
- Clarifies who owns the model and who has the right to use it.
- Allows easy modification to add or delete model elements and to revise the required levels of development on a project-by-project basis.
- Establishes standards and file formats to promote interoperability across the project.
- Provides common definitions for terms, to avoid confusion.
- Easy to read, modify and use.
Some industry groups are promoting a BIM amendment written by a Philadelphia lawyer. Most architects and contractors would likely find themselves lost in its endless definitions and legalese about the Spearin Doctrine, a legal rule that protects contractors. Written by practitioners, E202–2008 is different. Easy to read and use, it delivers what the industry needs: a practical tool for using BIM across the project.
This document is not available in a paper format.
E202™-2008 utilizes the UniFormat™ classification system. UniFormat is produced jointly by The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and Construction
Specifications Canada (CSC). For more information about CSI, visit http://www.csinet.org.
IPD Documents
- C196 Agreement - Owner and the SPE
- C197 Agreement – Non-Owner and the SPE
These two new agreements round out the IPD Single Purpose Entity (SPE) family of AIA Contract Documents.
They establish the project owner's responsibility to fund the project and the responsibilities of other SPE members, such as the architect and construction manager, to design and construct the project.
These agreements implement the principles of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) established in the Integrated Project Delivery: A Guide such as collaborative decision making, mutual risk and reward, and early goal definition. The new agreements advance IPD by creating the contractual environment where:
- The owner is a full partner with other SPE members in managing the design and construction process;
- Project owner and other SPE members make all decisions collaboratively and unanimously;
- Claims are waived and all disputes are resolved within the SPE disputes provisions, not in court; and
- All participants are motivated to achieve goals they mutually agree upon.
Benefits:
- Both C196–2008 and C197–2008 complete the SPE package started by C195–2008, the SPE Agreement.
- They provide the contractual structure the SPE needs to secure funding, and to design and construct the project.
- These agreements take care of the details, such as how insurance will apply, how members may be paid for their services and limit their liability, which costs are "allowable," how a member can earn profit through incentive compensation, and what happens at the end of the project.
See the original May 15, 2008 IPD documents
Design-Build Documents
- A441 - Contractor and Subcontractor Agreement
- C441 - Architect and Consultant Agreement
In 1986, the AIA was the first in the industry to issue design-build agreements. Recognizing that the industry was using design-build delivery in many different ways, in 2004, the AIA introduced an entirely new Design-Build family of documents written to accommodate the myriad ways that design-build is implemented today. That family consisted of four agreements: owner/design-build consultant; owner/design-builder; design-builder/architect and design-builder/contractor.
These two new agreements complete the AIA's Design-Build Family of documents by flowing down to the architect’s consultants and to the subcontractors the essential provisions of the 2004 agreements.
In developing the new agreements, the AIA followed its standard practice of soliciting input and feedback from across the industry to ensure that the new agreements would address stakeholder interests. In addition to obtaining feedback from AIA members serving on the Design-Build Knowledge Community, the AIA received input from the following organizations:
- American Subcontractors Association (ASA)
- Associated Specialty Contractors (ASC)
- American Consulting Engineers Council (ACEC)
These agreements:
- Address Contractor/Subcontractor and Architect/Consultant relationships.
- Address rights and responsibilities, roles, work to be performed, changes, claims, dispute resolution, services provided, communications, compensation, and more.
- Balance the allocation of risk among parties.
- Provide a simple checkbox approach for selecting the preferred method of dispute resolution.
- Flow-down provisions from their respect pre-existing prime agreements.
Benefits:
- These new Subcontracts eliminate the need to create custom agreements and provide standard language that can easily be modified, thus saving time and reducing the transactions costs typically involved in multi-party contracting.
- They clarify and assign roles and responsibilities for subcontractors and sub-consultants involved in design-build projects and thereby reduce confusion.
On-Site Project Representation Document
- B207–2008 Scope of Architect’s Services: On-Site Project Representation
The new On-Site Project Representation scope of services document adds to the over 30 existing documents available in the AIA Contract Documents B-Series, for use in establishing agreements between owners and architects.
B207–2008 joins a list of eleven other scope of services documents covering such topics as historic preservation, commissioning, site evaluation and planning, and LEED® Certification.
The B207–2008 document provides:
- Agreement on the number of architect's representatives stationed at the project site.
- A schedule for the on-site representation.
- The services that the on-site representative will perform.
- The on-site representative’s schedule.
- The owner's responsibility to provide an on-site office for on-site representative(s).
- Compensation provisions.
Benefits:
- Eliminates the need to create a custom scope document, thus saving time, money and energy.
- Easy to use format.
- Clarifies the roles and responsibilities of both the owner and the architect, so there’s no confusion.
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