Product Description

This book considers 150 problems that regularly arise in building contracts and provides a detailed explanation as to their answers. It cites key parts of legal decisions as authority. The new edition includes some 50 new problems, and revised solutions to a third of the problems to take account of recent case law.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #121379 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Review
′Deserves a place on every site and in every office as the standard handbook on contractual problems′– Construction Law Digest

From the Publisher
* new edition features 50 new problems and updates to solutions making the book over 50% longer
*written by the principal of the UK's leading firm of construction contract consultants
* draws on the firm's extensive experience from their claims and dispute work
* answers the questions the industry wants to raise about building contract problems

From the Inside Flap
This book examines one hundred and fifty problems that regularly arise in building and engineering contracts and provides a detailed explanation of their answers, citing key parts of judgments as authority.

It covers questions on:

Design issues Contractor’s programmes
Tenders Payment
Delays Extensions of time Letters of intent Variations
Acceleration Global claims
Loss and expense Practical completion
Defects liability Liquidated damages
Contractor’s float Damage to the works
Adjudication Exclusion clauses

The book deals with a broad range of construction contracts, including the JCT Standard Form and Design and Build Contract, the ICE Conditions, ICE Design and Construct, the New Engineering Contract, FIDIC, GC/Works/I, the Model Form and IChemE Form.

First published under the title One Hundred Contractual Problems and their Solutions, this substantially revised Second Edition includes 50 new problems and updated solutions to a third of the problems to take account of recent case law.