2018 Contract Review Guide

One of Maloney & Company’s commitments to our architect and engineer clients is to give them advice and suggestions on managing the risk they take on when providing design services. Among many risk management tips and suggestions, our clients receive a 10 page Contract Review Guide, updated annually.

Within the Contract Review Guide, we address questions like:

Q: What if I don’t sign the contract my client gave me? Or if my client doesn’t sign the one I prepared?

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Does the Updated Tax Policy Affect Architects & Engineers?

by Reade Pizzonia, Account Manager, Maloney & Company, LLC

 

 

As 2017 drew to a close, President Trump and the U.S Government agreed upon a new tax policy which went into effect as of January 1, 2018. A few weeks prior to the policy reform getting approved, the policy appeared unlikely to provide a benefit for architects and engineers. However, thanks to representatives ...

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Tiny Living in Brooklyn

 

 

Millions of New Yorkers live alone, and studio apartments of less than 400 feet are setting new standards for efficiency. Caesura, a mixed-used building in the Brooklyn Cultural District is a project of New York’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. This building has 12 stories, 123 of the smallest legal rentals in the five boroughs, and a 40% below-market-rate!

The ...

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Honoring an Influential Architecture Historian

 

 

Vincent Scully lived a long life of influencing architects with his lectures and literature. He was a Yale art historian for over 60 years, and had a decisive influence on the architectural practice in the last half of the 20th century. Scully authored books on Greek temples, Palladio’s villas and the American Indian pueblo, American architecture and urbanism, and many more on ...

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Starting a Design Office?

 

Architects and engineers planning to start their own firms will ask us about insurance for the new venture. Typically, small firms start with one or more of these three types of policies:

 

1) Professional Liability Policy

This type of policy pays for legal fees and damage awards connected to an A/E’s design work. This coverage is important because an architect or engineer is personally liable for his or her professional services. There is no way to organize or incorporate to shield yourself ...

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Meeting with Aon Affinity

 

 

This week, our team of account managers met with Jeff Grigsby, Vice President of A&E Advantage. Since 2015, Axis Insurance has been the national program underwriter for A&E Advantage, Aon Affinity’s professional liability insurance program for architects, engineers, and surveyors. The A&E Advantage program offers pre-claim assistance, online educational training, and many more risk management services to a variety of ...

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Schinnerer’s 60th

In 1957, architects and engineers of the era needed an insurance solution that could truly protect them; good thing Vic Schinnerer was in the right place at the right time. Schinnerer was the industry’s first-ever insurance policy created and underwritten for architects and engineers, and is the largest program for A/E Professional Liability in the USA. It is commended by both ...

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What’s the Best Way to Deal with an E&O Claim?

The best way for an architect or engineer to deal with an Errors & Omissions claim is to avoid it all together.

This is why using a specialty broker like Maloney & Company is so important. Our staff knows the A&E industry making us very aware of the risks that you face and enabling us to give top-notch guidance. Also, we frequently send out risk management materials to keep you updated with the latest trends in the industry. Here are a ...

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World Landscape Architecture Month

April is the month long celebration of landscape architecture and designed public/private spaces!

 

World Landscape Architecture Month was established by the American Society of Landscape Architecture and aims to demonstrate how landscape architecture effects our daily lives. Springtime is the perfect time of year to celebrate landscape architects, because now is the time that most see their profession pick up its never ending dynamics. Landscape architecture services in America are ...

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Winners and Losers in the Self-Certification Process

By: Michael J. Maloney

I get a little worried whenever I see a shift in the relationship between architect, owner and contractor because often, when the dust settles, the architect has come out of the process having given up some ground to the others. Change yields both winners and losers.

WINNERS:

1) THE PROJECT OWNER–If you self-certify a project the owner will spend no extra money and get the project completed sooner. If it is a commercial space, the owner will begin making ...

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