RIBA Agreements 2010
NEW RIBA Agreements 2010
RIBA Agreements 2010 is a suite of contract documents to appoint:
- Architects,
- Consultants, and
- Sub-consultants to a construction project
Flexible and versatile, the whole suite of components is available here in an electronic version. Some parts are also available in print. You can use components from both versions to create a single agreement.
Simplified and reorganised to make them easier to use, they supersede the RIBA Agreements 2007. They have also been rigorously checked for legal accuracy and are endorsed by:
- Association of Chartered Architects (ACA)
- Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT)
- Royal Institution of Architects in Scotland (RIAS)
- Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW)
- Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RSUA)
Electronic versions
The whole suite is available electronically, including many components that are not available in print. They are:
- Cost-effective – significantly cheaper than printed versions.
- Re-usable - you don't have to keep buying the Core Components or Other Components for every new appointment.*
- Convenient – you can share them with clients and others by email.
- Easily amended – you can edit them or customize to fit your house style.*
- Completed electronically – no need to fill them in by hand.
* applies to all components other than Conditions
Printed versions
Only some RIBA Agreements 2010 are published in print in packs with corresponding bundles of core components. A new pack must be bought for every new appointment. They are completed and amended by hand.
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RIBA Agreements 2010 Price List
| ELECTRONIC PACKAGES | PRICE | RTF | Licence toRe-use? | |
| RIBA Standard Agreement 2010: Architect | ||||
| Standard Conditions for the Appointment of an Architect 2010 | £24 + VAT | (project-specific) | ||
| Core Components | £5 + VAT | |||
| Memorandum of Agreement for the Appointment of an Architect | ||||
| Project Data 2010 | ||||
| Services 2010 | ||||
| Fees and Expenses Schedule 2010 | ||||
| Standard Agreement 2010: Model Letter | ||||
| Standard Agreement 2010: Notes on Use and Completion | ||||
| RIBA Standard Agreement 2010: Consultant | ||||
| Standard Conditions for the Appointment of a Consultant 2010 | £24 + VAT | (project-specific) | ||
| Core Components | £5 + VAT | |||
| Memorandum of Agreement for the Appointment of a Consultant | ||||
| Project Data 2010 | ||||
| Services 2010 | ||||
| Fees and Expenses Schedule 2010 | ||||
| Standard Agreement 2010: Model Letter | ||||
| Standard Agreement 2010: Notes on Use and Completion | ||||
| Concise Agreement 2010 | ||||
| Concise Conditions of Appointment for an Architect 2010 | £14 + VAT | (project-specific) | ||
| Concise Conditions of Appointment for a Consultant 2010 | £14 + VAT | (project-specific) | ||
| Core Components | £5 + VAT | |||
| Small Project Services Schedule 2010 | ||||
| Fees and Expenses Schedule 2010 | ||||
| Concise Agreement 2010: Notes on Use and Completion | ||||
| Concise Agreement 2010: Model Letter | ||||
| Domestic Project Agreement 2010 | ||||
| Conditions of Appointment for an Architect for a Domestic Project 2010 | £10 + VAT | (project-specific) | ||
| Conditions of Appointment for a Consultant for a Domestic Project 2010 | £10 + VAT | (project-specific) | ||
| Core Components | £5 + VAT | |||
| Small Project Services Schedule 2010 | ||||
| Fees and Expenses Schedule 2010 | ||||
| Domestic Project Agreement 2010: Model Letter | ||||
| Domestic Project Agreement 2010: Notes on Use and Completion | ||||
| Sub-consultant Agreement 2010 | ||||
| Conditions of Appointment for a Sub-consultant 2010 | £10 + VAT | (project-specific) | ||
| Core Components | ||||
| Sub-consultant Agreement 2010: Model Letter | £5 + VAT | |||
| Fees and Expenses Schedule 2010 | ||||
| Sub-consultant Agreement 2010: Notes on Use and Completion | ||||
| Other Components | ||||
| Access Consultancy Services Schedule | £5 + VAT | |||
| Historic Building or Conservation Project Services Schedule | £5 + VAT | |||
| Small Historic Building or Conservation Project Services Schedule | £5 + VAT | |||
| Initial Occupation and Post-occupation Evaluation Services Schedule | £5 + VAT | |||
| Bespoke Interior Design Services Schedule NB Coming soon! |
£5 + VAT | |||
| Master Planning Services Schedule | £5 + VAT | |||
| Multi-disciplinary Design Services Schedule | £5 + VAT | |||
| Draft Third Party Rights Schedule | £5 + VAT | |||
| Draft Warranty by a Sub-consultant | £5 + VAT | |||
| Public Authority Supplement | £5 + VAT | |||
| Contractor's Design Services Schedule | £5 + VAT | |||
| Contractor's Design Services Notes Parts 1-4 | £5 + VAT | |||
| Guides | ||||
| A Guide to Access Consultancy Services | £5 + VAT | |||
| A Guide to Working with an Architect: Repair and Alteration of Historic Buildings | £5 + VAT | |||
| A Guide to Working with an Architect: Repair and Alteration of Places of Worship | £5 + VAT | |||
| A Guide to Initial Occupation and Post-occupation Services | £5 + VAT | |||
| PRINTED PACKS | PRICE | RE-USE? |
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RIBA Standard Agreement 2010: Architect Standard Conditions of Appointment for an Architect 2010 Memorandum of Agreement for the Appointment of an Architect Schedules 2010 Standard Agreement 2010: Notes: Part 1 Use and Completion; Part 2 Model Letter |
£32 + VAT | |
| RIBA Standard Agreement 2010: Architect 10 PACK | £250 + VAT | |
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RIBA Standard Agreement 2010: Consultant
Standard Conditions of Appointment for a Consultant 2010 Memorandum of Agreement for the Appointment of a Consultant Schedules 2010 Standard Agreement 2010: Notes: Part 1 Use and Completion; Part 2 Model Letter |
£32 + VAT | |
| RIBA Standard Agreement 2010: Architect 10 PACK | £250 + VAT | |
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RIBA Concise Agreement 2010: Architect
Conditions of Appointment for an Architect 2010 Fees and Expenses Schedule 2010 Concise Agreement 2010: Notes: Part 1 Use and Completion; Part 2 Model Letter |
£22 + VAT | |
| RIBA Concise Agreement 2010: Architect 10 PACK | £170 + VAT | |
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RIBA Domestic Project Agreement 2010: Architect
Conditions of Appointment for an Architect for a Domestic Project 2010 Fees and Expenses Schedule 2010 Domestic Project Agreement 2010: Notes: Part 1 Use and Completion; Part 2 Model Letter |
£17 + VAT | |
| RIBA Domestic Project Agreement 2010: Architect 10 PACK | £130 + VAT | |
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RIBA Sub-consultant Agreement 2010
Conditions of Appointment for a Sub-consultant 2010 Fees and Expenses Schedule 2010 Sub-consultant Agreement 2010: Notes: Part 1 Use and Completion; Part 2 Model Letter |
£17 + VAT | |
| RIBA Sub-consultant Agreement 2010 10 PACK | £130 + VAT | |
| RIBA Agreements 2010 Electronic-Only Components | £20 + VAT | |
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RIBA Agreements 2010 Complete Reference Set
(includes one of each above packs and the Guide to RIBA Agreements 2010 (worth £25) |
£150 + VAT | |
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Formats for Electronic RIBA Agreements 2010
Electronic RIBA Agreements 2010 are designed to be flexible and work with the printed versions.
Once you have paid for them, you are sent an email with a link to follow. This will take you to a website where your purchases are waiting for you to download.
Because they are delivered to you as electronic files, you are advised to save them securely to protect them from accidental loss.
Save them before you customise them! We recommend that you develop your own in-house templates from the Rich Text Format (RTF) files.
The Conditions of Appointment are supplied as locked PDF files.
- Before they are locked, you are asked to fill them in online with project-specific information. It is not possible to edit, customise or otherwise amend them after you have bought them.
- Getting these details correct is very important. You are given ample opportunity to review them.
- They are completed by hand in the same way as printed versions are. You will need to create separate addendum sheets for any amendments to the Conditions.
Notes and Guides are supplied as locked PDF files.
- These cannot be amended or customised – they are purely for information.
All other components are supplied as RTF files.
- The RTF files are designed be edited before use and are compatible with most popular word processing software packages. You may edit, customise or otherwise amend them as much as you like. They come with instructions that explain how they are to be filled in.
- Note that there might be unforeseen legal and commercial consequences to changing the wording too much.
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What's changed since the 2007 edition?
Key changes to content
- Recent legislative changes, taking account of the Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer's Home or Place of Work Regulations 2008 and the Provision of Services Regulations 2009
- Revisions to the provisions for termination, which give rights to the architect equal to those offered to the client
- The introduction of the option of an aggregate cap on liability
- The establishment of the right for the architect to have reasonable access to photograph a project, and to publish images
- Increased interest charges on the late payment of fees
- Better clarification in relation to the architect's right to suspend the copyright licence in the event of non-payment of any amounts properly due.
Key changes to formats
Electronic versions:
- The electronic components are now significantly more cost-effective than the printed versions
- The vast majority of the documents are licensed to be used as often as you wish, increasing the savings for repeat buyers
- Components commonly used with Conditions bundled into sets of Core Components, mirroring the printed packs.
- Components designed to be filled in are supplied only as RTFs
- Components designed to for information are supplied only as PDFs.
Website selection tool:
- Redesigned for greater clarity and usability
- Guidance updated
- Bundling of components and pricing more straightforward
- Packs simplified by reducing the number of separate documents in them
- Schedules bound in to the centre pages of the Conditions in some Agreements
- The number of separate packs rationalised
- The Fees and Expenses Schedule included in all the packs
- The page design amended to facilitate photocopying
- The prices are unchanged from the 2007 edition
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Changes to the Conditions
Principal changes to RIBA Standard Agreement 2010 from 2007 edition
| Old Clause | New Clause | Heading | Change |
| Part B combined with part A Clause numbers not prefixed A or B | |||
| Clause number protocol changed | |||
| Present text changed to language of obligation | |||
| – | 1.1 | Definitions |
Cooperate changed to Collaborate Construction Cost amended Excluded Costs and Relevant Cost deleted |
| A1.4, 2.3 | – | Statutory regulations | Deleted |
| A1.5 | - | Rights | Deleted |
| A2.1.2 | 2.2 | Duty to inform | Amended |
| A2.2 | 2.3 | Duty to inform | Amended |
| A2.4 | 2.5 | Architect's authority | Amended |
| A2.5.1 | 2.6 | Architect's representative | Amended |
| A2.6.1 | – | Completion | Deleted |
| A6.3.1, .2 | 2.7–.8 | Photography and Publicity | |
| A6.3.4 | 2.9 | Confidentiality | Now subject to duty of care |
| A3.1 | 3.1 | Client's representative | As 2.6 |
| A3.8 | 3.7 | Applications for consent | |
| A3.6, .7 | 3.8, .9 | Appointment of Other Persons | Amended |
| – | 3.10 | Time and Cost | New clause |
| A3.9 | 3.11 | Legal advice | |
| – | 3.12 | Confidentiality | To match new 2.9 |
| A4.1 | 4.1 | Assignment and sub-contracting | Second sentence deleted |
| A4.3 | 4.3 | Specialist services | Reworded |
| A5.1–.16 | 5.1–.20 | Fees and Expenses | Amended |
| A7.1, .2, .4 | 7.1, .2, .4 | Liability and insurance | Some amendment |
| A8.2.2 | 8.1.4 | Suspension | Termination after suspension added (from A8.5) |
| A8.4, .5 | 8.2 | Termination | Revised – equal rights |
| A9.2–.5 | 9.1–.3 | Dispute resolution | Previously in Part B, some amendments |
| B3 | – | Public authorities | Deleted (available electronically) |
| – | 10 | Consumer's right to cancel | New clause |
Principal changes to RIBA Concise Agreement 2010 from 2007 Edition
All Conditions of Appointment have been amended for greater clarity. Present tense has been changed to language of obligation and the clause number protocol has also changed. New condition 10 provides for a consumer's statutory right to cancel a contract within seven days of signing.
The Notes on Use and Completion and the Model Letter of Appointment have been amended to reflect the changes and include advice on negotiating the terms of an Agreement with a consumer client.
Principal changes to RIBA Domestic Project Agreement 2010 from 2007 Edition
All Conditions of Appointment have been amended for greater clarity. Present tense has been changed to language of obligation and the clause number protocol has also changed. New condition 10 provides for a consumer's statutory right to cancel a contract within seven days of signing.
The Notes on Use and Completion and the Model Letter of Appointment have been amended to reflect the changes and include advice on negotiating the terms of an Agreement with a consumer client.
Principal changes to RIBA Sub-consultant Agreement 2010 from 2007 Edition
All Conditions of Appointment have been amended for greater clarity. Present tense has been changed to language of obligation and the clause number protocol has also changed.
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Old Editions
What is going to happen to the old editions of RIBA Agreements 2007 and SFA'99?
They will continue to be available until 1 December 2010, at which stage you will only be able to buy archived electronic reference copies.
- Buy 2007 electronic edition now
- Buy 2007 printed editions now
- Buy SFA/99 (2004) and related forms now
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Copyright Licences
Copyright licence for Electronic Components
You must agree to comply with the terms of our copyright licence before you buy any of the electronic files – the Electronic Components – that make up the RIBA Agreements 2010. The Electronic Components comprise Conditions of Appointment, Core Components and Other Components.
Copyright licences
Conditions of Appointment supplied as PDFs
- The Conditions of Appointment supplied as PDFs are for the sole use of the purchaser.
- You may use them for one professional services contract only.
- You and the other party to your contract may distribute copies of your Conditions of Appointment and Components supplied as PDFs to advisers and to other persons as necessary in connection with the proper performance of your contract.
- In any other case, you may not distribute or reproduce the whole or any part of the Conditions of Appointment or Components supplied as PDFs in any work, whether in hard copy, electronic or any other form, without the prior written consent of RIBA Enterprises Ltd.
Components supplied as RTFs
- Components supplied as RTFs are for the sole use of the purchaser.
- You may edit and amend them to match the style and procedures of your practice and as required for specific projects.
- You and the other parties to your contracts may distribute copies of the Components to advisers and to other persons as necessary in connection with the proper performance of your contracts.
- In any other case, you may not distribute or reproduce the whole or any part of this document in any work, whether in hard copy, electronic or any other form, without the prior written consent of RIBA Enterprises Ltd.
Components supplied as PDFs
- The Components supplied as PDFs are for the sole use of the purchaser.
- You and the other parties to your contracts may distribute copies of your Components supplied as PDFs to advisers and to other persons as necessary in connection with the proper performance of your contract.
- In any other case, you may not distribute or reproduce the whole or any part of the Components supplied as PDFs in any work, whether in hard copy, electronic or any other form, without the prior written consent of RIBA Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright notices
RIBA Agreements 2010
© Royal Institute of British Architects, 2010
The copyright in the content of the RIBA Agreements 2010 (all constituent parts in both printed and electronic versions) belongs to the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Copying of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than in accordance with the copyright licence.
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For copyright permissions, please contact Publishing Manager, RIBA Publishing, 15 Bonhill Street, London EC2P 2EA, UK.
Disclaimer
All parties must rely exclusively upon their own skill and judgment or upon their advisers when using electronic components from the suite of RIBA Agreements 2010, and neither the RIBA nor RIBA Enterprises Ltd assumes any liability to any user or any third party.
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