As mentioned in the July 2025 edition of the Practice Advisory newsletter, the Canadian Construction Documents Committee (CCDC) released electronic versions of the key CCDC 5A, 5B, and 17 for...
The OAA’s governing Council met in Toronto on Friday, November 28 to discuss a variety of topics, from confirming Committee appointments and Conference programming to approving budgets, a new Practice...
Pro-Demnity has provided many articles and Bulletins encouraging the use of the readily available standard forms of contract for the provision of architectural services provided by the OAA. Failure to...
After 18 months of discussion, Infrastructure Ontario (IO) has confirmed the government has approved a final set of supplementary conditions (SCs) for use with OAA 600-2021 contracts, specifically for...
As the architecture profession and the OAA awaits more detail around the regulations and the coming-into-force date, members are advised to proactively become familiar with the amendments as they...
For years, the Canadian Construction Documents Committee (CCDC) standard agreements have been the go-to for construction projects and are generally designed for a balanced sharing of project risk...
As the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the design and construction industry have demonstrated, unpredictable material and labour cost increases can cause significant hardships on consultants and...
As Executive Director of the Ontario Association of Architects, which regulates architectural practice in our province, I recently shared some of our resources related to public...
This article provides an overview of the new OAA 600 contact (new versions of OAA 800 and 900 have also been published), but with two minor clarifications. First, OAA 600-2021 was initially published...
Last year, the OAA announced an updated version of its downloadable suite of FREE standardized contracts for both members and the public to use. The goal behind the 2021 OAA Contract Suite is to...