Instructor: Paul Spite

Board: ARE Prep

Credit Hours: 1.00
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Approval Number: PACE-0641


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Course Description


The culmination of the design work in an architect’s office is usually described as the construction documents. This is the point where concepts envisioned as a solution for the owner’s needs have been turned into documents, for use in directing the construction of that solution.

Certain documents typically form the basis of the contract for construction. These include an owner-contractor agreement and exhibits, the conditions of the contract, including supplementary and other conditions, drawings, specifications, and addenda and other contract modifications. They communicate to everyone, the quantities, quality, and configuration of the materials that will be used to assemble the project.

Construction documents usually contain one or more of three types of information. They include legal and contractual, procedural and administrative, and architectural and construction information. Ideally, they contain enough of all three information types, to ensure a smooth delivery of the project to the owner.



Course Objectives


Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to:

  • Identify the purpose of each of the various documents, used as part of building contracts
  • Explain how various project delivery methods impact contract document creation
  • Describe the overall organization of drawings in a construction document set
  • Discuss contents of each drawing type generally found in construction document sets
  • Interpret differences in specification types and why each might be used
  • Examine various documents that can be added to the contract, after it has already been awarded


Instructor Bio


Paul SpitePaul Spite, BS, BA
AFD Consulting, Founder and Principal

Paul is a Registered Architect with over forty years of experience, a course developer and has been a teacher in multiple venues in the past. He is also a writer in many venues, having developed many studies, a few published articles, numerous short stories, multiple screenplays, two non-fiction manuals for church design and one novel. More to the focus of this endeavor, Paul has also created presentations for twenty-six lunch and learn presentations for building material manufacturers, webinars covering the subjects of Aging-in-Place and Architectural Acoustics and eleven distance learning courses for architects, engineers and contractors. As he nears retirement from managing his small architectural practice, Paul hopes to focus even more of his energy on teaching and on course development.



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