1st Edition
Guide to the JCT Design and Build Contract - 2024 Edition
By Seán Mac Labhraí
Copyright 2025
696 Pages
by
Routledge
696 Pages
by
Routledge
696 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Seán Mac Labhraí is a construction solicitor and author on construction law. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a CEDR Accredited Mediator
