Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Instead of listing the terms and conditions that are frequently contested in agreements, this risk management article focuses on the art of negotiating an agreement. There are numerous resources for negotiating...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Successful public relations raises a design firm’s profile and reinforces its brand and market positioning, whether the firm is small, medium or large. This also applies whether the firm is newly established or has a...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
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In the design professions and construction industry, the right of entry is necessary for project success, as it allows designers, construction teams, contractors, and other authorized personnel to access the site for...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
In the design professions and the construction industry unexpected costs in a project seem inevitable. A certain level of ambiguity, defects and errors or omissions should be anticipated, and in fact, are normal. This...
Thursday, November 7, 2024
There are times where there are misunderstandings between a design professional and their client on a project. Professional association model agreements strive to dispel any ambiguous scope of services in these...
Thursday, September 26, 2024
When people think of the documents that are prepared and used to construct a project, many times the other thing that they think of are the drawings. But drawings are just half of the story on how to design and build a...
Thursday, September 12, 2024
In the business world, changing the course in mid-stream in a project can be distressful, time consumption and costly. For example, you order blue new chairs for the entire office, and just after they are in production,...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Moral rights are personal rights that connect the creator, such as an architect or engineer (A/E), to documents that they created when rendering their professional services. Moral rights are about being properly named...