Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: builder contracts

[James Kacki (jimkacki]

This is another useful site to begin research into contractor  
contracts.  It is a Canadian site (CCDC -Canadian Construction  
Documents Committee) who publish all the accepted standard  
construction documents in Canada.  I assume its  the Canadian  
equivalent to the AIA site listed below.  I doubt there is much  
difference in the issues covered by the contracts and contract  
documents in each country.  Capitalism rules!  :-).  You can purchase  
the documents or just look over the list to see what is covered.  If  
you purchase one it should probably be "CCDC2 The owner /contractor  
contract". or "CCDC20 A Guide To The Use Of CCDC2"
Just another research resource for those interested.  As someone  
said, each project is different, but there are commonalities, ( and  
many are probably N. America wide)
James.


http://www.ccdc.org/bulletins/pdf/eng/bulletin2.pdf


On 5-Jul-08, at 3:54 PM, John Faust wrote:

> I'm sure it is true that each contract is unique in many respects. We
> haven't even gotten there in our process so I'm guessing here. But  
> I would
> suspect that it would be valuable to see examples of what is  
> covered in such
> contracts and at what depth. As you abstract away the differences  
> among the
> examples, I suspect patterns begin to emerge. That is undoubtedly how
> contractors and builders operate efficiently--reuse existing  
> pattern and/or
> borrow it from someone else.
>
> Cohousing US could really assist the forming and construction  
> processes by
> collecting a library of such documents and then spending some time  
> looking
> for the patterns they share. Differences among states are to be  
> expected but
> that, in itself, is useful information.
>
> In the mean time, you can try the AIA site that addresses
> documents<http://www.aia.org/docs_synopses>.
> On a detailed page, there is a description of the A-series
> documents<http://www.aia.org/docs_series_a>that are contract forms for
> contracts between owner and contractor for many
> different circumstances. That page just contains descriptions of the
> documents. They want to sell you the document forms for about $10  
> each. The
> synopses are fairly explicit so you shouldn't need to purchase many  
> of the
> forms to get a useful one. The forms are MS Word documents but you  
> could use
> OpenOffice (or NeoOffice on Mac OS X) just as well. I can't attest  
> to the
> quality since I haven't seen or used them. However, they may provide
> guidance.
>
> Apologies if I have misunderstood your question.
>
> John Faust
>
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Larry Miller  
> <larry.miller [at] charter.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I second Sharon's response. Our contract was more like a book.
> >
> > On Jul 4, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Francoise Paradis wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone have a contract with a builder they would be willing to
> > > share for us to review?  We want to make sure we have all the bases
> > > covered before we sign one.
> >
> >
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