I have been in similar situations and sometimes you can successfully renegotiate a restart fee with he criteria indicated in the two previous comments. If you receive an initial rebuke, don't necessarily take that as a final no since you are planting a seed for consideration. An owner can understand a contractor remobilizing fee, but initially do not realize there is a similar impact upon design professionals.
If they initially say no, tell them to take time to consider the information and then circle around in a week to complete the conversation.
Its unfortunate, but I find architects in the public sector are usually the most difficult people to acknowledge this type of request.
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Charles Michelson AIA
Principal
Saltz Michelson Architects
Fort Lauderdale FL
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-12-2018 15:10
From: Lawrence Adams
Subject: Architect's Restart Cost to Owner Project Delay
All,
We do fairly large scale projects ($10M-$80M constr. cost) using AIA B101. Though rare, we've just experienced (thru no fault of Architect) Owner's suspension of a Project for more than 3 months.
Now the Project is back on.
When the "hold" occurred, we notified the Owner in writing there would most likely be a restart cost as we had to re-assign the project team (incl SMEP subconsultants) to other projects
and spend additional time to re-mobilize and re-familiarize our team and Owner w/where we left off regarding key assumptions and construction cost increases.
In cases like this, have you have been able to communicate a successful rationale for re-start costs w/your Clients? What aspects did you include in calculating that additional cost?
I sincerely appreciate the wisdom of this forum and thank you for your thoughts.

Larry H. Adams, Jr. AIA
Founding Partner
ACi Architects
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Winter Park, FL 32789 USA
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