Guide to the JCT Design and Build Contract - 2024 Edition

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-74403-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 696 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the 2024 edition of the JCT Design and Build Contract. It offers a straightforward reference to help practitioners understand the rights and obligations of the parties, and to administrate the Contract in an accurate and timely manner.

Part 1 provides commentary on all the key provisions of the Contract, in plain English. It adopts the same structure as the Contract and includes the relevant extracts to reduce the need for cross-referencing. There is also guidance on current market practice, and recommendations for best practice.

Part 2 contains over 300 corresponding resources for the administration of the Contract, by both the Contractor and the Employer. It includes notice and other correspondence templates, checklists, and trackers to assist record keeping.

Written to meet the needs of busy construction practitioners, this is an accessible, practical reference for those acting on behalf of the Contractor and the Employer (and Employer’s Agent), including project teams, consultants, and advisors. It is also ideally suited for students of construction law.

Zielgruppe

Professional Reference and Professional Training

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mac Labhrai, Sean

Mac Labhraí, Seán

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baurecht, Recht für Ingenieure und Architekten
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Zivilprozessrecht Schiedsverfahrensrecht, FamFG (vormals: FGG)
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Versicherungswirtschaft
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baugewerbe, Bauplanung, Baubetrieb
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Risikobewertung, Risikotheorie
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baukonstruktion, Baufachmaterialien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Projektmanagement
• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Privates Baurecht, Architektenrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Introduction

- Key Changes from the 2016 Edition of the JCT Design & Build Contract

- The parties

- Overview of the Contract Documents

How to use this book

Part 1: Commentary

- The Agreement

- The Recitals

- The Articles

- The Contract Particulars

- Attestation

- The Conditions

- Section 1: Definitions and Interpretation

- Definitions

- Interpretation

- Section 2: Carrying out the Works

- Contractor’s Obligations

- Possession

- Supply of Documents, Setting Out etc.

- Discrepancies and Divergences

- Design Work – liabilities and limitation

- Fees, Royalties and Patent Rights

- Unfixed Materials and Goods – property, risk etc.

- Adjustment of Completion Date

- Practical Completion, Lateness and Liquidated Damages

- Partial Possession by Employer

- Defects

- Contractor’s Design Documents

- Section 3: Control of the Works

- Access and Representatives

- Sub-Contracting

- Employer’s Instructions

- CDM Regulations

- Section 4: Payment

- Contract Sum and Adjustments

- Taxes

- Payments and Notices – general provisions

- Interim Payments – calculation of sums due

- Listed Items

- Retention

- Loss and Expense

- Final Statement and Final Payment

- Section 5: Changes

- General

- The Valuation Rules

- Section 6: Injury, Damage and Insurance

- Personal Injury and Property Damage

- Insurance against Personal Injury and Property Damage

- Insurance of the Works and Existing Structures

- Professional Indemnity Insurance

- Joint Fire Code - compliance

- Section 7: Assignment, Performance Bonds and Guarantees, Third Party Rights and Collateral Warranties

- Assignment

- Performance Bonds and Guarantees

- Clauses 7A to 7E – Preliminary

- Third Party Rights from Contractor

- Collateral Warranties from Contractor

- Third Party Rights and Collateral Warranties from Sub-Contractors

- Section 8: Termination

- General

- Termination by Employer

- Termination by Contractor

- Termination by either Party and regulations 73(1)(a) and 73(1)(c) of the PC Regulations

- Consequences of Termination under clauses 8.9 to 8.11, etc.

- Section 9: Settlement of Disputes

- Mediation

- Adjudication

- Arbitration

- The Schedules

- Schedule 1: Design Submission Procedure

- Schedule 2: Supplemental Provisions

- Schedule 3: Insurance Options

- Schedule 4: Code of Practice

- Schedule 5: Third Party Rights

- Schedule 6: Forms of Bonds

- Schedule 7: JCT Fluctuations Option A

- The Employer’s Requirements

- The Contractor’s Proposals

- The Contract Sum Analysis

- Other frequent contract documents:

- Performance bonds

- Parent company guarantees

- Collateral warranties

- Novation agreements

- Vesting certificates

- Third party agreements

- Part 2: Resources for Contract Administration

- Contractor Resources

- Employer Resources

Further reading

Glossary

Subject index

Clause index

Über Autor(innen)

Seán Mac Labhraí is a solicitor and the Chief Operating Officer at the Ardmore Group. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a CEDR Accredited Mediator.