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Awards: 2005 Institute Honor Award for Architecture
Recipient: OMA/LMN – A Joint Venture
Project: Seattle Central Library; Seattle
Client: The Seattle Public Library; Seattle, Wash.
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New Software Product Highlights

AIA Contract Documents Software (for Windows OS)

Creating and Editing

  • Dialog boxes ask a series of questions; answers automatically filled into the blanks in the document and are stored for future use, making the documents easier and faster to create
  • More intuitive and user-friendly navigation guides users through document creation
  • Clear, easy to understand icons to speed your work
  • Use Microsoft® Word editing functionality
  • Create a customized template
  • Use standard Microsoft® Word "track changes" function
  • Generate "clean copy" documents without the strike-throughs or underlines
  • Generate an "Additions and Deletions" report to reflect variations from standard AIA language
  • Import Microsoft® Outlook contacts to create new Project Team members
  • Prominent "draft" watermark prints efficiently and clearly on any printer

Collaborating

  • E-mail documents as Microsoft® Word or PDF attachments
  • Create a track changes Microsoft® Word version, that will track all the changes made by the other parties in your collaboration
  • Create a variance checked version in an editable Microsoft® Word format or PDF format locked to prevent further editing
  • Conduct a Variance Check that compares your draft document against standard AIA language to note any differences
  • Collaborate with anyone who can view Microsoft® Word or PDF documents

Generating or Printing a Final Document

  • Generate a "clean copy" final document, noting all the additions and deletions with a small marker in the margin and details of the changes in an Additions and Deletions report at the end of the document
  • Generate a "comparative" final document, noting all changes in-line in the document, marking additions with underlines and deletions as strike-throughs
  • Final versions of the documents are always locked in PDF format and can be printed or emailed as desired

Storing and Retrieving

  • Organize documents by project
  • Save AIA Contract Documents projects in disparate locations in your pre-existing network and local disk file directories.
  • Store and share documents on your network or via e-mail
  • Import Microsoft® Outlook contacts to create new Project Team members 
  • Call up project data and automatically incorporate it into new documents
  • Generate final documents in PDF format locked to prevent further editing
  • Create PDFs of contracts created in EF 3.0 PLUS