| ARCH229 | MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2000 | |||||||||||||
| Contract negotiations: who does what, when, & how | ||||||||||||||
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| The contract negotiations for the Zoo Project were complicated and prolonged. This was due in part to the multiple character of the client and the diverse nature of the design team. The delay that the project experienced as a result of the disputed bond election also figured prominently, prolonging the process into an exchange of drafts and revisions that took over a year to complete.
The Contract Negotiation story begins in September of 1998 when the initial draft contract was presented to Field Paoli Architects. |
O'Brien Krietzberg, the program manager that had been selected by the Zoo, drew up this first draft. The program manager chose not to use the standard AIA contract and offered instead a contract that they typically used as a standard document. This decision may have been based on the thought that the standard A.I.A contract was biased in favor of the architect / design team since it had been created by the architect's professional organization.
Notes on the Field Paoli copy of the initial draft indicate that they had concerns that the contract wording was too broad in terms of their responsibilities and potential liabilities. |
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