Owner Responsibilities During Projects (CE) (PjM)

The owner is an integral part of getting a project from inception to completion. As the typical design-build-bid process has evolved over time as a project delivery method, the legal roles and responsibilities of an owner in that process have become increasingly well defined. They are done so in the standard contracts offered for use to govern such projects. Hopefully, those contract documents will be interrelated, and agree with one another.

The AIA's B101-1997 document, entitled the "Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Contractor for a Stipulated Sum," is used for the majority of construction projects. Used in conjunction with the AIA’s 'Conditions of the Contract,' these two documents will precisely define what is to be expected from the owner of a project.

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

• Explain how, and to whom, various notices are given during construction projects
• Determine the general responsibilities assigned to an owner of a construction project
• Recognize the responsibility of a project owner to provide proof of financial arrangements
• Identify the types of information an owner must supply to an architect
• Describe an owner’s right to stop the work, or to carry out the work, on a project themselves
• Discuss the mutual responsibilities between an owner and a contractor, when separate contractors are used

Paul 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.