Common use of Concept Clause in Contracts

Concept. It is the Owner's expectation that the Program Manager, if any, the Design Professional, the Owner, Owner-retained consultants, the Using Agency, any Separate Contractors and the CM/GC shall work as a project team to effect the commencement of and completion of construction in accordance with the Contract Documents. By its various contracts with the other parties, the Owner will require that each team member communicate with all other team members to encourage and facilitate overall coordination, cooperation and efficiency, and cooperate fully with and coordinate fully with each other team member in order to achieve Project completion in an expeditious and economical manner. The CM/GC, in consultation with the other team members, shall schedule regular meetings of the key principals of the project team in an effort to solve problems in a partnering atmosphere to facilitate the ability of each team member to meet its business objectives, so long as consistent with the successful completion of the Project, in real time. The Design Professional shall not be required to attend such partnering meetings more than twice per month. It is the Owner’s intent that all consensus decisions of the team, where differing from the Contract Documents, be reduced to writing in an appropriate Change Order or amendment or modification.

Concept. It is the Owner's expectation that the Program Manager, if any, the Design Professional, the Owner, Owner-retained consultants, the Using AgencyProgram Manager, if any, any Separate separate Contractors and the CM/GC Contractor shall work as a project team to effect the commencement of and completion of construction in accordance with the Contract Documents. By its various contracts Contracts with the other parties, the Owner will shall require that each team member communicate with all other team members to encourage and facilitate overall coordination, cooperation cooperation, and efficiency, and cooperate fully with and coordinate fully with each other team member in order to achieve Project completion in an expeditious and economical manner. The CM/GCContractor, in consultation with the other team members, shall schedule regular meetings of the key principals of the project team in an effort to solve problems in a partnering atmosphere to facilitate the ability of each team member to meet its business objectives, so long as these objectives are consistent with the successful completion of the Project, in real time. The Design Professional shall not be required to attend such partnering meetings more than twice per month. It is the Owner’s intent that all consensus decisions of the team, where differing from the Contract Documents, shall be reduced to writing in an appropriate Change Order or amendment or modification.