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Business Insights: Solutions for the A/E Industry EJCDC Releases New State-of-the-Art Design-Build Contracts Design-build is becoming increasingly common in public work. Approximately 40 percent of all nonresidential construction in the United States and 53 percent of all nonresidential projects over $10 million use design-build delivery, according to a Reed Construction Data/RSMeans report. To meet this growing market, the Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee (EJCDC)-which ACEC co-sponsors with NSPE and ASCE-has released its 2016 Design-Build ("D-Series") Documents. The new series is a significant modernization, revision and expansion of EJCDC's 2009 D-Series and is now the state of the art in designbuild contract documents. of non-res The new D-Series features the first projects over standard-form documents for procuring design-build services, including new $10 million template-style guides to prepare use requests for qualifications, requests for design-build proposals and price proposal forms. It also includes the industry's first standard-form owner/designbuilder agreement for "progressive" design-build, or when the project's scope has very little definition and the owner and designbuilder collaborate on defining the project scope-after which the parties agree on a price for final design and construction. Also in EJCDC's D-Series is a guide to the preparation of design-build supplementary conditions, application for payment form, change-order form and work-change directive form specific to design-build. EJCDC D-700-standard general conditions of the contract between owner and design-builder-has been extensively updated, revised and modernized as well. The EJCDC 2016 Design-Build Documents can be purchased for immediate download in Microsoft Word at www.acec.org/ publications/books-and-contracts. 53% Learning the Business of Structural Engineering, August 4-5, 2016, Chicago The Council of American Structural Engineers (CASE) will host the industry's only convocation dedicated solely to improving structural engineering firm business practices and risk management strategies. Managing Risk for High Stakes Success, to be held August 4-5, 2016, in Chicago, features a day and a half of intensive training and collaboration with industry leaders and project managers from firms of all sizes on risk management and loss prevention on structural engineering projects. Topics to be discussed include how to structure contracts, reducing liability so as not to trigger professional negligence, internal tools essential to a successful risk management 52 ENGINEERING INC. JULY / AUGUST 2016 program and methods for properly communicating project phases to nontechnical people. The seminar will kick off with a dinner speaker focusing on a "then and now" featuring the World Trade Center. CASE represents more than 165 structural engineering firms dedicated to helping structural engineers understand and improve their business practices through enhanced management practices, shared best practices, reduced professional liability exposure, improved quality and increased profitability. Registration for the 2016 CASE Risk Management Seminar: Managing Risk for High Stakes Success is now open at bit.do/ CASE-ManagingRisk. ACEC HR, IT and Finance Forums Sept. 12-13, 2016, Nashville Offering two days of peer-to-peer information sharing, problem solving and networking, ACEC forum workshops help members make sense of current concerns and emerging trends impacting today's A/E workplace. Forums for HR, IT and Finance include firm leaders who will discuss common problems, benchmark processes, share experiences and network with their peers in an informal roundtable format, all of which continues post-forum via active online communities. The next in-person forum meetings will be held Sept. 12-13, 2016, at the Hilton Nashville Downtown. Visit the following links for more information and to register: * HR Forum: bit.do/ACEC-HRForum-2016 * IT Forum: bit.do/ACEC-ITForum-2016 * Finance Forum: bit.do/ACEC-FinanForum-2016 ■ FOR MORE BUSINESS INSIGHTS ■ Better Business Planning ■ Factoring Executive Compensation ■ Cyberattacks and Data Security ■ High-Impact Proposal Writing Go to: www.acec.org/education/webinars/ ACEC's Business Resources and Education Department provides comprehensive and onlineaccessible business management education. Visit ACEC's online educational events calendar at www.acec.org/calendar/index.cfm or bookstore at www.acec.org/bookstore, or call 202-347-7474, ext. 324, for further information. http://bit.do/CASE-ManagingRisk http://bit.do/CASE-ManagingRisk http://bit.do/ACEC-HRForum-2016 http://bit.do/ACEC-ITForum-2016 http://bit.do/ACEC-FinanForum-2016 http://www.acec.org/publications/books-and-contracts http://www.acec.org/publications/books-and-contracts http://www.acec.org/education/webinars/ http://www.acec.org/calendar/index.cfm http://www.acec.org/bookstore

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Engineering Inc. - July/August 2016

Engineering Inc. - July/August 2016
Contents
From ACEC to You
Market Watch
Legislative Action
Engineering and Cyberdefense
Passing the Baton
Look Beyond the Premium
Turning Up the Power
Secure Defense
Lighting a Spark
Navigating a Challenging Terrain
2016 Fall Conference Preview
Guest Column
Mergers and Acquisitions
Guest Column
Members in the News
Business Insights

Engineering Inc. - July/August 2016