Friday, April 14 • 1:15 – 2:30 p.m. PT
Richard Foltz will be speaking at the ABA Forum on Construction Law 2023 Annual Meeting: The Future of Construction Law, on April 14, 2023 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Panel: Trends in Design-Assist and Design Delegation
Trending in project delivery – both in design-bid-build and design-build—is delegated design and design assist. Contractors engaged in predesign services are becoming more reluctant to take on the risks of accepting performance specifications and instead are excluding delegated design from their GMPs. Owners are left looking to their design professionals to design systems that are traditionally specified by performance criteria. This expert panel will tackle the important questions that arise in contractual relationships concerning the allocation of risk and liability and responsibility for producing permit drawings. Dovetailed with this issue of delegated design and design assist is a design professional’s level of shop drawing review and the liability that can flow as a result. Our experts will offer some practical suggestions to avoid risk exposure.