Green Construction and Sustainable Design OnDemand Webinars

AIA Contracts: The Owner-General Contractor Agreement

For more than a century, The American Institute of Architects has published an integrated set of contract forms for the construction industry. While other industry groups independently have prepared their own competing set of forms and, more recently, some have banded together to create more of a consensus-based...

AIA Document D503(TM) - 2011: Guide for Sustainable Projects

The movement toward a sustainable built environment is rapidly evolving, significantly impacting the way buildings are planned, designed, constructed and used. Different and potentially competing forces, such as owners’ goals, code requirements, and basic liability considerations, can impact the sustainable...

AIA Integrated Project Delivery and Building Information Modeling Documents

A revolution is occurring in the design and construction industry. This revolution is driven by the deep dissatisfaction felt by many industry stakeholders (e.g., owners, designers, constructors and lenders) that design and construction services are delivered too inefficiently in an atmosphere of uncertainty...

Alternative and Controversial Land Use Regulations

(Problem) Sometimes, we ask that zoning do more than it was intended to do, as when we force on zoning the job of business regulation. Whether a convicted felon should ever run a massage parlor or not is simply not a subject for zoning. Sometimes, local governments don’t live up to the expectations...

Basic Principles of Construction Insurance

This OnDemand Webinar will offer an overview of basic insurance coverage used for construction projects. The presenters are experienced construction and insurance coverage attorneys who will cover how to secure appropriate insurance coverage at a project’s inception and what to do when claims arise...

Building Addition Structural Evaluation and Condition Assessment

Designing building additions requires several considerations, some of which may not be clearly evident at the start of the project. The process of doing this work is not a course that is taught in most engineering colleges. However, this is a task that many engineers are asked to do by their clients,...

Calculating the Cost of a Change

Changes on construction costs are inevitable. That means that often-difficult negotiations of the appropriate price for the change are also inevitable. The objective of this OnDemand Webinar is to help systematically strip away the mystery, the magic, the misconceptions, and the uncertainty surrounding...

Cell Tower Lease Buyouts

Offers to “buy out” cell tower leases for up to 50 years (and in some cases in perpetuity) pose unusual legal, financial, and technical risks that the property owner and its regular attorneys may not be aware of. This OnDemand Webinar will help guide property owners and their attorneys in identifying,...

Cell Tower Zoning: Overview and Current Issues

This OnDemand Webinar will describe the major elements and issues under the 1996 Federal cell tower zoning statute, including the FCC’s 2009 shot clock rule setting 90/150 day deadlines to act on zoning applications, the pending FCC Notice of Inquiry on cell tower zoning, the major federal zoning cases...

Change Order Basics

Order this OnDemand Webinar and receive valuable information on change orders, construction change directives, cardinal changes, abandonment, contract modifications and managing change. You will gain a clear understanding of these concepts and how they apply to the owner, contractor, subcontractor,...