Practice Management

What types of business entities are in architecture?

What is Sole proprietorship?

What is a partnership?

What is a corporation?

Partnership can be divided into what three subcategories?

What is a general partnership?

What is a limited partnership?

What is a joint venture?

What is an LLC?

What is an S corporation?

The identity of a firm can fall into what six general archetypes?

During the hiring process, which regulations direct how potential employees personal information can be obtained and used?

Which act details minimum hourly wages, overtime requirements, and salaried employee qualifications for overtime?

Retirements and benefit plans are covered and which act?

Which at specifies the privacy of employee health data?

Which act protects the right to unionize?

What is the difference between stated duty and implied duty?

The AIA code of ethics is arranged in which three tiers?

What are canons?

What are ethical standards?

What are rules of conduct?

What are Canon 1: general obligations?

What are Canon 2: obligations to the public?

What is Canon 3: obligations to the client?

What is Canon four: obligations to the profession?

What is Canon five: obligations to colleagues?

What is Canon six: obligations to the environment?

What are two ways and architectural practice can assess its resources to determine what the required billing rates and profit goals should be?

Architecture firms need to manage which three facets of financial health in order to survive?

What is an indirect expense factor?

What is negligence?

For an architect to be successfully sued based on negligence which for conditions must be met?

What are four basic ways to deal with risk?

What does professional liability insurance or malpractice insurance or errors and omission protect against ?

What is general liability insurance?

What are statues of limitations?

What are statutes of repose?

What is agency?

The administration of a firm can be divided into the following areas:

What is AIA document G809?

What is the AIA document G807 tor?

What does the AIA document G705 provide?

What form is the AIA document G804?

True or false? Before the start of construction, the architect should obtain a copy of the contract between the owner and the contractor icluding the agreement, the general and supplementary conditions, the drawings, specifications, and all agenda.

In which documents is the scope of the architects services during the construction phase defined?

What are the three most important areas requiring proper administration procedures during construction phase?

What is clerk of works?

AIA document B207 should be given to the contractor to avoid what?

True or false? Field changes should be recorded by the contractor on a set of record prints at site.

What is the recommended procedure for record drawings?

What is substantial completion?

What happens when the contractor fails to clean the premises at the completion of work?

What is release of liens?

As part of closing up a project, the architect usually receives what from the contractor?

What does problem analysis involve?

True or false? If the architect suspects that the cause of the problem is non-compliance with the requirements of the contract documents, the architect can order work to be tested after owners approval. If results are in compliance, owner must pay for testing, if they are not the contractor must pay for testing.

What is expert witness?

What is project representative?

What is design/award/build delivery method?

What are advantages and disadvantages of the design/award/build delivery process?

What is construction management delivery method?

What are the responsibilities of a construction manager who acts as a contractor?

What is a fixed price structure?

What is a cost-plus structure?

What is the guaranteed maximum price structure?

What is design/build delivery method?

An architect the space with which five components to every design decision?

What is lifecycle costing?

Sustainable design should have which for goals?

What factors affect the schematic design phase?

What is a network diagram?

What is an interface event?

What is the critical path versus a float path?

What does construction sequence?

In addition to the elemental categories, the building cost analysis by P/A building cost file includes what?

Collecting data for a building cost file requires the organization of information in what?

What are the seven major elemental categories for collecting data for the building cost?

What does the building classification code establish?

The parameter costs of building system estimates costs how?

What is pro forma?

What is capital gains tax?

What is the general obligation bond?

What are revenue bonds?

What are two basic things to remember about AIA A201?

Does the AIA general conditions documents include administrative procedures?

What is insurable value of the project?

Property insurance also known as builders risk includes what?

What is the difference between all risk and named peril coverage?

What is loss of use insurance?

A general conditions also requires contractors to purchase what types of insurance?

What is Worker's Compensation insurance?

What is liability insurance?

What is personal injury insurance?

What is property damage insurance?

What is automobile liability insurance?

What is contractual liability insurance?

What is AIA document G715 certificate of insurance?

What is products and completed operations coverage?

What are mechanic liens?

Liens are not permitted on publicly owned of projects. Instead labor and material payment bond providing necessary protection. The federal law requiring such a bond is known as?

True or false? The final payment will not be made until the contractor submit an affidavit that all debts arising out of the projects for which the owner or the owners property may be liable have been satisfied. The owner may also asked for releases and waivers of lean from the contractor and subcontractor, though sometimes a bond is acceptable in lieu of such waivers

What is liquidated damages?

What is schedule of values?

What is performance specifications?

What are proprietary specifications?

What is reference specifications?

What are descriptive specifications?

What is cash allowance specifications?

What is a labor and material payment bond?

Bid bonds guarantee what two things?

What is a bond?

What is the purpose of insurance?

Bid documents may permit bidders to submit what in lieu of a bid bond?

The performance bond normally is what percentage of the contract amount?

In the event of a default by the contractor, the performance bond requires a surety company to do what two things?

AIA document G612, owners instructions to architect provides what?

True or false? The AAA general conditions can never be used without appropriate supplement Terry conditions in regards to insurance requirements.

Property insurance is sometimes referred to as?

What is property insurance?

What is subrogation?

The AAA general conditions contains a waiver of subrogation clause which does what?

If it becomes necessary for the owner to occupy the work prematurely, what must be done?

What is certificate of insurance?

What is construction manager as agent?

What is construction manager as constructor?

What is cost plus fixed fee delivery method?