Your BIM Contracting Options Just Got Bigger

Posted on October 24, 2008 by FGPP

As we wrote about before, the new AIA BIM and IPD documents have now been released and are available for download.  The new documents are:

  • E202-2008 - A New Building Information Modeling (BIM) Protocol Exhibit
  • C196 and C197 – 2008 - Two New Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) Agreements
  • A441 and C441 – 2008 - Two Additional Design-Build (DB) Agreements
  • B207 – 2008 - An On-Site Project Representation.

The documents are available at the AIA website.  They will be of interest to anyone participating in BIM projects and looking for a comparison or alternative to the ConsensusDocs BIM forms.

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New AIA Contract Docs

Posted on September 25, 2008 by FGPP

 

ConsensusDocs released their BIM addendum a while back and the AIA has now announced the release of six new IPD and BIM documents which include a BIM Exhibit that should help facilitate direct communication of each party's duties and an on-site project representation document that should be interesting.  A full press release from the AIA can be read here.

It's impossible to keep the excitement that surrounds BIM projects from spilling over into construction's legal sphere.  The challenges of contracting for a collaborative exercise and answering the new questions that are raised in an atmosphere that could become an entirely open and instant exchange of information will likely end up creating the need for many future revisions and additions to all the collaborative agreements.

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