Legal Guide to AIA Documents

Legal Guide to AIA Documents, Fifth Edition is a current, comprehensive, and practical resource to help you master and use the construction industry contract terms set forth by the various agreements between owners, contractors and architects. This new Fifth Edition delivers complete coverage of the following key AIA Documents:

• AIA Document A101: Standard Form of Agreement between Owner and Contractor— Stipulated
• AIA Document A201: General Conditions of the Contract for Construction
• AIA Document B101: Owner Architect Agreement for Basic Services—Large Projects
• AIA Document B103: Owner Architect Agreement for Basic Services—X Large Projects
• AIA Document B104: Standard Form of Agreement between Owner and Architect—Project of Limited Scope (Medium Projects)

Designed to help you draft agreements that best protect your clients’ interests in every situation, Legal Guide to AIA Documents, Fifth Edition provides:

• Accurate and practical clause-by-clause analysis—enabling you to gain greater understanding of every AIA document provision
• Invaluable alternate language—allowing you to customize agreements to meet the requirements of specific circumstances
• Guidance you need to negotiate language, clauses and terms in contracts between architects and owners, and owners and contractors.

Legal Guide to AIA Documents, Fifth Edition also includes in-depth cross- references to every other important document throughout. The author highlights all the changes from the 1997 forms to the 2007 forms and identifies where issues are most likely to arise as a result of these recent changes.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Legal Guide to AIA Documents, Fourth Edition is still available for archival purposes. Click here for more information.