Contract Corner with XL Catlin
Elevating the Standard of Care
The law requires design professionals to perform in accordance with the “standard of care,” which is defined by the Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee (EJCDC) as “the care and skill ordinarily used by members of the designer’s profession practicing under similar circumstances at the same time and in the same locality.”
Many owner-drafted agreements recite the accepted standard of care, but add all sorts of inappropriate requirements to it.
