Product Description

This volume provides concise but legally thorough answers to architects’ and builders' frequently asked questions about construction law from construction law specialist David Chappell.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27835 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review

"A fascinating concept, full of knowledgable gems put in the most frank of styles... A book to sample when the time is right and to come back to when another time is right, maybe again and again."

David A Simmonds, Building Engineer magazine

From the Back Cover

Construction Contracts: Questions and Answers

David Chappell

Construction law is sometimes simple and at other times complex. Professionals need answers which are pithy and straightforward but also legally rigorous.

A number of questions come up time and again. They range in content from extensions of time, liquidated damages and loss and/or expense to issues of practical completion, defects, valuation, certificates and payment, architects' instructions, adjudication and fees. Some questions are relatively simple, such as 'what date should be put on a contract?', but there are implications to even the simplest questions. More elaborate ones might involve whether the contractor is entitled to take possession of a section of the work even though it is the contractor's fault that possession is not practicable.

David Chappell is well known as an architect, lecturer and writer on construction law. He has served for many years as Specialist Adviser to the Royal Institute of British Architects, and this experience has given rise to this book. All the questions set out here are real ones; and although most were originally asked by architects, their answers will be of wide interest to QSs, project managers, contractors, employers and others engaged in construction.

About the Author

David Chappell is director of David Chappell Consultancy Limited and sometime Visiting Professor of Practice Management and Law at the University of Central England in Birmingham. He has written many articles and books for the construction industry, including Spon's Understanding JCT Standard Building Contracts, now in its 7th edition. He frequently acts as an adjudicator.