The General Contractor’s Guide to Contracts
A free guide to help you understand, manage, and feel confident about contracts.
What This Guide Covers
- How to align subcontract terms with your prime contract to protect margin and avoid unrecoverable risk
- Payment application and lien waiver processes that protect your cash flow from progress through final payment.
- How your role, whether general contractor, design-builder, CMc, or CMa, changes your risk exposure and the contracts you should use.
- Why performing changed work without signed documentation is one of the most common ways GCs lose margin, and how to protect yourself.
- Insurance and bonding practices that support clean project closeout
- How leading GCs use contract technology to standardize workflows, reduce administrative burden, and get paid faster.
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The Guide was Informed by Partnering with 88% of the ENR Top 400 Firms on 200,000 Projects Annually
Here’s what they say about AIA Contract Documents from firsthand experience
Mark Toler, VP
Emerald Coast Constructors
“The contracts are fair, balanced, and impartial, and using them just makes good business sense, regardless of which side of the table you’re sitting on.”
Employees: 8
Project Per Year: 12
Andy Bakker, CEO
Spyder Construction
“We rely on AIA Contract Documents for their clarity and professionalism. AIA’s resources have become an essential part of our workflow, helping us deliver quality projects on time and budget!”
Employees: 17
Project Per Year: 175
Julian Miller, DOO
NS Builders
“Building the kind of contract portfolio that we’re able to through AIA Contract Documents would have cost us massive amounts of time and money otherwise.”
Employees: 25
Documents Featured in the Guide Include:
- A101™
Agreement Between Owner-Contractor: Stipulated Sum
- A201™
General Conditions of the Contract for Construction
- G702™
