Professional Liability Insurance Premium Relief
The AIA California Council approached several professional liability insurance providers this past summer to initiate a dialogue addressing the disparity between premiums calculated during a time when the economy was strong versus a down economy and identify what architects could do to reduce premiums. The result is a list of steps to take to manage risk and keep premiums as low as possible. 
 Getting Contractors on the Green Team Drops Expenses and Closes Gaps
In the typical design and construction industry hierarchy, the goals and ideas that drive projects begin with an owner or client’s vision, are refined by an architect’s design, and then move on to the contracting industry to be executed and built. So far, the growing adoption of sustainable building practices by the contracting and building industry hasn’t changed this. What began with growing willingness on the part of clients and owners to pay premiums for sustainable features has then been championed by architects as they’ve developed new design features and techniques, and eventually permeated down to the broadest, widest level of the design and construction industry: contractors that are building up their own profession-specific sustainability expertise.
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