Hourly Schedule
Friday, November 7
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
- Sign That Contract Drafted By Your Owner or Prime?? ... Definitely, Maybe!!!
- DBIA’s family of Design-Build Contract Documents, developed by a cross-section of experienced industry professionals representing the entire design-build team, including Owners, contractors, engineers, architects, and subcontractors, are fair and balanced tools to help assure successful design-build projects. However, the vast majority of contracts within today’s design-build industry are of the proprietary variety that utilize an Owner’s, Contractor’s, or Prime Designer’s in-house developed template. These templates can vary widely in language used to cover the numerous provisions important to the parties involved and may present administrative and/or risk sharing positions skewed in favor of the drafting party. This session’s panel will 1) acknowledge and discuss the effective use of both proprietary and industry form contracts from a variety of team member perspectives; 2) examine and compare a few specific examples of proprietary vs. industry form clauses; and 3) highlight how, even when not used as the base form of contract on a project, DBIA form contracts (and other industry forms such as AIA or ConsensusDocs) can still bring significant value when used as a negotiation aid, a work planning and pricing aid, and an overall “sanity check” against risk-allocation and content of proprietary contracts.
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Speakers:
Sean Gellhaus
