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ConsensusDocs 10-Year Milestone Marks a Brighter Outlook for AEC

ConsensusDocs is a unique coalition to publish best practice standard construction contract. On September 27,2017 ConsensusDocs hit a 10-year milestone. The ConsensusDocs coalition is a first of its kind industry-wide…

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ConsensusDocs 305 – New Tool to Contract for Lean Projects

ConsensusDocs has provided a great resource to the construction industry with its recent publication of the CD305 Lean Construction Addendum. For the many projects that are not able or ready…

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ConsensusDocs 541 Design-Assist Amendment Article

By: Miles D. Jolley Associate, Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP.             Use of the design-assist collaborative approach has recently emerged as a result of the construction industry’s constant (and admirable)…

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ConsensusDocs Addresses Coronavirus Delay Risk Explicitly, Other Standard Documents Do Not 

ConsensusDocs contracts, such as ConsensusDocs 200 Owner/Constructor Agreement with General Conditions, section 6.3.1(j) explicitly allows for delays that are reasonably due to epidemics. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) A201 nor any other standard construction contracts, explicitly mention…

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ConsensusDocs Benefits All Members of Construction

WHEN THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE Services (DAS) per-formed a holistic review of the state con-struction program to determine how to reduce the number of claims and disputes that resulted…

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ConsensusDOCS Builds Momentum

Pam Hunter Engineering News Record, August 2010 Four more associations have joined the ConsensusDOCS coalition, bringing the total number of groups affiliated with the group to 28. Established three years ago,…

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ConsensusDocs Contract Language Inspires Congressional Legislation

By: Jordan Howard, Director of Federal and Heavy Construction Division, AGC of America Congressmen Pete Stauber (MN-08) and Marc Veasey (TX-33) introduced a bipartisan bill, H.R. 2344, that will require…

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ConsensusDocs Design-Build Agreements vs AIA Design-Build Matrix: Know the differences

By: Brian Perlberg, Esq. ConsensusDocs Executive Director & Senior Counsel. Did you know that AIA design-build standard contracts appear to explicitly create a fiduciary duty to the design-build, but do not…

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ConsensusDocs Executive Director discusses design-build vs design-bid-build in Industry Trade Magazine

Click here to read the article:  https://www.dumpsters.com/blog/design-bid-build-vs-design-build

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