Contracts
The Streetwise Subbie – Providing the Tools for Success
Subcontractors remain both under-skilled and under-valued in today’s construction market and regularly fall foul of main contractors relying on your lack of commercial training and knowledge of Statutory Instruments such as the Construction Contracts Act 2002....
Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Act 2017
Are you up to speed with the legislation changes in Queensland which apply from 17 December 2018? Read our briefing note that guides you through the changes and what you need to do to comply. Download briefing note This article is for general information purposes only...
The Contractor’s NEC3 ECC Handbook
The NEC3 ECC contract is now extremely popular and is used in many countries for projects as wide ranging as residential apartments to airports and everything in between. Its clarity, collaborative working ethos and flexibility is hugely appealing to Employers,...
Forecast assessment of compensation events and recent case law
The High Court of Northern Ireland has recently issued a judgment in connection with the assessment of compensation events under NEC3 contracts and, in particular, whether the assessor of a compensation event should make an assessment using forecast cost or available...
NEC4 is coming….
First there was the New Engineering Contract, followed closely by its successor, the NEC2, but it wasn’t until the arrival of the NEC3 that the contract became popular and widely used. Twelve years after the launch of the NEC3, we can now look forward to the new,...