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Mission: Aia georgia promotes the profession of architecture through fellowship, advocacy, communications and education. The association supports the activities of seven local chapters: atlanta, augusta, middle georgia, south georgia, southwest georgia, golden isles and west georgia. Aia georgia serves as the voice of the profession at the state legislature, provides continuing education through its annual conference, celebrates design through its annual design awards program, and supports members seeking elevation to fellowship - a nationally endorsed recognition of significant contribution to the profession.
Programs: Architectural publications and communications: aia georgia e-newsletter, annual profile and magazine - aia georgia publishes an electronic newsletter which includes articles regarding national, state and local chapter news, legislative alerts, job postings and links to purchase aia contract documents.
aia resource center: aia georgia is a full service documents distributor of aia contract documents. Aia contract documents are fair. In its contract documents, the aia seeks to reflect an industry consensus, obtained from the advice of practicing architects, contractors, engineers, owners, surety bond producers, insurers and attorneys. Aia contract documents balance the interests of all of the parties. This ensures a fair distribution of rights and duties without bias toward any one party, including the architect. Aia contract documents reflect industry practices, not theory. Where practices are inconsistent or no guidelines for practice exist, the aia contract documents provide a consensus-based model for practitioners to follow. Aia contract documents reflect changing construction practices and technology. They are regularly revised to accommodate changes in professional and industry practices, and technology. Aia contract documents reflect changes in the law. They are revised and updated to conform to evolving case law precedence and indemnity insurance. Aia contract documents are flexible. They are easily modified to accommodate individual project demands. Such changes can be easily distinguished from the original, printed language. Aia contract documents are easy to interpret. They use common words and phrases. Industry and legal jargon is avoided whenever possible.
aia georgia's design awards was held in april 2017. The event which promotes the celebration of design excellence attracted over 200 attendees, providing them information on some of the best commercial and residential design projects in the state.