The Construction Specifications Institute and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) have announced CSI’s endorsement of three AIA Contract Documents for use by owners and consultants. This endorsement follows a thorough review of the documents by the CSI Technical Committee, which analyzed the documents for good industry practice, consistency, and alignment with CSI core technical values.
“This endorsement speaks to the relevance and usefulness of our owner-consultant documents” said Deborah DeBernard, AIA, NCARB, Architect AIBC, LEED BD&C, Senior Vice President of Global Innovation at the AIA. “Consultants—particularly land surveyors and geotechnical engineers—play important roles in the pre-design phase of most building projects. Our owner-consultant agreement and scope of service exhibits for land surveying and geotechnical engineering represent a modernization of the outdated request for proposal model of hiring consultants.”