AIA Contract Document Workshop Seminar
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:15 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:15 – 4:30 pm
Construction Contrct Fundamentals
D. Green
Examining contract terminology
Parties, consideration, term, performance,
substantial performance, breach, remedies, damages
Understanding types of construction contracts:
• Stipulated sum
• Cost plus fee
• Design build
• Construction management
Understanding roles and relationships of project participants:
• Owners, architects/engineers, construction managers,
contractors, subs and suppliers
Contract negotiation and drafting
Exploring the law of construction contract interpretation
The Primary AIA Contract Documents
M. Brown
A101-2017 Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner
and Contractor (Stipulated Sum)
A102-2017 Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner
and Contractor (Cost Plus Fee with GMP)
B101 – 2017 Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner
and ArchitectA
133-2009 Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner
and Construction Manager Where
Construction Manager is also Constructor
A141 – 2014 Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and
Design Builder
A401 – 2017 Standard Form of Agreement Between
Contractor and Subcontractor
C401 – 2017 Standard Form of Agreement Between Architect and
Consultant
AIA A201: General Conditions
B. DeBauche
Overview of new updates to AIA documents
General provisions
Project participants: owner, contractor, architect, engineer,
subcontractors
Changes in the work
Time, payments and completion
Protection of persons and property, insurance and bonds
Defects in and correction of work
Miscellaneous provisions
Termination, suspension, claims and disputes
Case Study: Reviewing Completed Contract
Documents for a Sample Project
D. Green
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs (HSW)
Architects
6.5 HSW PDHs/CE Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 HSW PDHs to Kansas professional engineers and architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Kansas.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
Engineers and architects seeking continuing education credit in other states will be able to apply the hours earned at this seminar in all states, except Florida architects. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This seminar provides a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors. It has not been approved by any state contractor licensing board for mandated continuing education credit.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
William DeBauche
Brown and Ruprecht, P.C.Brown and Ruprecht, P.C., Kansas City, MO
Mr. DeBauche is an attorney and shareholder with the law firm of Brown and Ruprecht, P.C., of Kansas City, Missouri. He has 35 years of experience in Kansas City as an attorney, representing parties in construction litigation in state and federal courts, before the Boards of Contract Appeals and in arbitrations. He regularly assists contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and designers with preparation of mechanic’s liens and bond claims, review and preparation of contracts, preparation of notice and claim documents, and general day-to-day advice. From 1994 to the present, Mr. DeBauche has taught Construction Law as an adjunct law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. He has prepared several articles for Modern Builder on construction law topics. He has taught numerous seminars for the Builders’ Association and other groups on mechanics’ liens, federal contract claims, construction arbitrations, payment issues, extra work and changes, claims against bonds, construction contract documents, ethics issues and bidding issues.
David Green
Associate Attorney at Foulston Siefkin LLP
Mr. Green is an attorney at Foulston Siefkin LLP in Overland Park, Kansas. His practice includes design and construction contract drafting and negotiation and dispute resolution through litigation and arbitration. Mr. Green represents a wide range of clients across the construction industry, including owners, general contractors, subcontractors, and design professionals. He has an undergraduate degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Kansas.