Duty to correct and warn

This duty of the architect to exercise due care, skill and diligence may extend not only to the architect's client, but also to a person who, after a building is finished, enters it and by reason of faults in design or construction comes to harm. However, in the absence of a contract between that person and the architect, the duty will only extend where the damage was the reasonably foreseeable consequence of the carelessness or negligent conduct of the architect.

Page contents:

• General duty of care of an architect
• Duty to correct design and construction errors
• Discovery of design defects
• Discovery of improper contractor performance
• Discovering new information which calls the design into question
• Duty to warn of consequences of errors