Welcome To Leeds Society of Architects

Like all consultants architects expect to be paid a fee for the services they provide. Sometimes securing that payment whether in part or at all can prove difficult. This is particularly so in the current economic climate where cash flow is critical.

At the time of appointment it is important that the fee and the dates or stages for payment are clear to both the client and the architect. It also needs to be clear what the client is receiving in exchange for the fee. Certainty is crucial. Whenever there is an issue surrounding the recovery of any fees the first point of reference will be the appointment document.

The seminar will look at the architect’s rights surrounding payment and what steps or options are available to an architect should a client fail to pay.

The seminar content will include:

• The appointment i.e. agreement

• ‘Consumer’ clients

• The Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996

• Payment of the fee

• Additional services

• Right to suspend performance of services

• Termination of services

• Dispute resolution e.g. mediation, adjudication

• RIBA standard forms of appointment i.e. S-Con-07-A, CA-C-07-A and SFA/99.

Speaker: Michael Dunn BSc LLB LLM FRICS FCIArb Michael Dunn is a consultant with Rex Procter & Partners based in Bradford. He advises on construction contracts and consultant appointments. He is a visiting lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Central England on their post graduate architecture courses, and a visiting lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University on its MSc in Construction Law & Dispute Resolution course. He is an RIBA Specialist

Practice Consultant.

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