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 Program Manager, if any, Using Agency, any separate Contractors and the 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 with the other parties, the Owner shall 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 Contractor, 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. 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.