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As team members, interior designers are subject to real and imagined claims from a number of directions; many... from actions un ...

LIABILITY FOR COST ESTIMATES Often, clients claim Often, clients claim that designers failed to prepare a design within the owne ...

ments as consistent with the project budget—based on confirmation from an outside cost consultant—there can be little or no liab ...

OWNERSHIP OF DOCUMENTS Who owns, and has the rightWho owns, and has the right to future use of, the written design documents cre ...

manufacturers who are provided copies of these documents of the Designer’s proprietary interest in such documents. In order to r ...

Copyright Laws U.S. and many international copyright laws protect original works of author- ship fixed in any unique and tangibl ...

the right to make copies; the right to distribute copies; and the exclusive right to display the work publicly. Anyone who viola ...

HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES Health studies Health studies over the past 25 years have found that increasing numbers of people contr ...

Copyright grants four rights exclusively to the author or owner of the architectural work: the right to transform or adapt the w ...

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have promulgated exposure lim ...

the Project and to indemnify and hold harmless the Interior De- signer and its principals, employees, agents, and consultants fr ...

relate to accessability of places of public accommodation and commer- cial facilities. The ADA is the most comprehensive civil r ...

Places of education Social service establishments Places of exercise or recreation Commercial facilities are usually defined a ...

If applicable, the overall financial resources of the parent entity including the number of employees and the number, type, and ...

compliance efforts, no business is exempt from compliance because of a fail- ure to understand or receive technical assistance i ...

Penalties for Noncompliance with the ADA Design professionals face considerable risk under the ADA. As a civil rights law, the A ...

protections into each agreement with the client as well as to coordinate the interior design agreement with those of the other m ...

Cushman, Robert F., and Stephen D. Butler. Construction Change Order Claims.New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994. LePatne ...

CHAPTER 462  Legislation DERRELL PARKER, IIDA Copyright 2002 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click here for terms of use. ...

T The history of legislation regulating interior design in America began with the attempt to pass the first interior design regu ...