RIBA Journal

This CPD will cover the following topics:
- Why do architects need forms of appointment? The importance of the written agreement for projects of all scales and Practices of all sizes
-What should a form of appointment contain?
-How do you ensure a fair and balanced contract?
-What is an architect’s main responsibilities in a form of appointment?
-How do you set out fees?
-Liabilities and the RIBA Professional Services Contracts –
-What if something goes wrong?

Date and venue:
26 February 2018
Royal Institute of British Architects
66 Portland Place
London W1B 1AD

Speaker content includes:

- What are the realities of working in a BIM environment and how can new thinking deliver increased efficiency and utilisation
- The practicalities of BIM specification - The extent to which it has empowered specifiers
- The impact in terms of costs and speed on the specification process - Methods for driving increased efficiency and effectiveness leading to greater, more value rich BIM utilisation

The programme:

9:00 am Chair's opening remarks
9:10 am BIM - The theory revisited
9:30 am Architect's Panel
10:00 am Tea & Coffee break
10:30 am Collaboration panel - Assa Abloy representative, with an engineer, and client
11:00 am Panel session and audience Q&A
11:30 am Closing thoughts and end

Speakers include:
- Linda Thiel, Architect, White Arkitekter
- Casey Rutland, Head of Digital, Royal Haskoning
- Harbinder Birdi, Partner, Hawkins\Brown
- Anne Kemp, Director, Atkins

Delivering business critical information, the RIBA Journal's intelligence pages are tailored to architects and written by experts. An essential part of your CPD portfolio.

Includes:
- Updates and analysis of planning legislation and building regulations
- Law and contracts, case by case and contract by contract
- Management, employment law, team building, marketing, cash flow
- Best business practice from thinkers and peers
- Key research into both the profession and industry
- Business opportunities, sectors, places, people
- A healthy dose of horizon scanning
- Plus sustainability, retrofit, refurbishment, envelope

Available monthly in the RIBA Journal and everyday online at www.ribajournal.com