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What are preliminaries in a construction contract?What are prelims?‘Preliminaries’ in a construction contract, or ‘prelims’, is typically taken to...
What is a variation on a construction project?A variation (sometimes referred to as a change) is an alteration to the scope of work originally...
Time of the essence—construction contractsWhat does time of the essence mean?Where time is 'of the essence' it means that the stated time for...
Product liability insurance for the construction industryThis Practice Note looks at product liability insurance from the perspective of those engaged...
What is the relevance of the Base Date in the JCT Design and Build Contract?The Base Date is relevant in respect of a number of clauses in the JCT Design and Build Contract 2016:•Fourth Recital—The parties state the Employer’s CIS status at the Base Date (also see clause 4.5)•definition of the Joint
FIDIC Contracts—Introduction to the Red Book 2017, reprinted 2022 with amendmentsIn December 2017, FIDIC launched the second editions of the Red, Yellow and Silver Books. Three years later, in December 2022, FIDIC launched reprints. The FIDIC Red Book 2022 reprint is to be described as ‘The
NEC Term Service ContractWhat is the NEC Term Service Contract?The NEC Term Service Contract, or TSC, is part of the NEC3 and NEC4 suites of contracts (see Practice Note: NEC contracts—introduction). The NEC Term Service Contract is designed to engage a contractor for a set period of time, to manage
JCT contracts—terminationThe JCT contracts contain detailed provisions for termination, setting out the grounds on which the parties may terminate and the consequences thereof. Under the JCT contracts, it is the Contractor’s employment that is terminated, rather than the contract itself. This
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