The Announcement of the Decade AIA Releases 2017 Contract Documents Like the fog that drifts through the Grand Canyon every ten years, the core set of AIA Contract Documents gets updated every ten years to ensure your design and construction projects are protected against changing industry trends and needs. Changes affecting architects include a single Sustainable Exhibit that can be added to any AIA document, new agreements containing a fill point to prompt the parties to discuss and insert an appropriate "Termination Fee" for terminations for convenience, and an added evaluation provision by the architect if the contractor proposes an alternative means and methods. Learn more and download samples at aiacontracts.org/commercialarch Photo by Maci MacPherson / National Park Service CIRCLE 215http://www.aiacontracts.org/commercialarch http://www.aiacontracts.org/commercialarch https://www.cdsreportnow.com/bgs/search?CBP0215201706