1st Edition

Introduction to Construction Contract Management

By Brian Greenhalgh Copyright 2017
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

This book is an introduction to construction contract administration and management, covering the delivery and execution stage of a construction project and the various issues which the contract administrator needs to proactively manage. It can therefore be used as a contract administrator’s resource book covering what needs to be done (and why) to keep a construction project on track from a... Read more

Foreword

Introduction

Part A: Initiating the Construction Stage – Contractor Mobilisation

1. Setting up for project delivery

2. Project communications, document control and BIM

3. Risk identification and management

Part B: Managing the Construction Stage Performance and Relationships

4. Supervising the contractor’s performance

5. Payments to the contractor

6. Variations and changes

7. Subcontracting

8. Achieving best value and cost reductions

Part C: Finalising the Construction Stage – Completion and Close-Out

9. Early termination of contracts; suspension of the works

10. Practical or substantial completion, delays and damages

11 Defects correction, final completion and close-out

Part D: Claims and Disputes

12. Legal basis of claims and claim management

13. Claims for extension of time, delay and disruption

14. Adjudication, Dispute Boards and ADR

15. Arbitration and Litigation

Part E: Ethics, Fair Dealings and Anti-Trust

16. Ethics, fair dealings and anti-trust

Biography

Brian Greenhalgh FRICS FCIOB has worked for many years as a commercial/contract manager for major client organisations in the MENA region. He was also formerly a principal lecturer in quantity surveying and construction project management at Liverpool John Moores University, with responsibility for postgraduate programmes in quantity surveying and construction project management.