Related Links: Website of Ames & Gough Most design and construction professionals are familiar with contractual wording that could broaden their exposures, especially references to standard of care and indemnification.Today, however, you must inspect the contract more closely. Owners and other clients—and their lawyers—now use new and less easy-to-recognize language that avoids hot-button words and phrases yet still sets higher standards of care and overly broad risk transfer.HUGHESOn any given project, a design team can complete its work only when it has received some form of information and documents from the owner, such as geotechnical reports or as-builts of existent