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Contracts are vital to the construction delivery process; they direct and govern every move. This book strips the legal mystique and jargon from contracts and exposes their basic logic.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Uher, Thomas E.
Otros Autores: Davenport, Philip (Lawyer)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney : UNSW Press, 2009.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Construction management (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Temas:
Construction contracts > Australia > Management.
Construction contracts > Australia.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Construction > General.
Construction contracts.
Construction contracts > Management.
Australia.
Building trades (Australia)
Law.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 PRE-CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION
  • 1. Introduction to contract administration
  • 1.1. What is a contract?
  • 1.2. Contracts in context
  • 1.3. The elements of a contract
  • 1.4. General comments on contracts
  • 1.5. Acts and regulations
  • 1.6.A brief history of building contracts
  • 1.7. Fundamentals of contract administration
  • 2. Project lifecycle
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Conceptual stage
  • 2.3. Design stage
  • 2.4. Tendering stage
  • 2.5. Pre-construction stage
  • 2.6. Construction stage
  • 2.7.Commissioning stage
  • 2.8. Post-occupancy evaluation (audit)
  • 3. Contract strategy
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Contract strategy
  • 3.3. Project delivery methods
  • 4. Options for contract price
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Fixed-price contracts
  • 4.3. Cost-plus contracts
  • 5. The traditional method of project delivery
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Nature of the traditional method
  • 5.3.Organisation structure of the traditional method.
  • Note continued: 5.4. Advantages to the principal
  • 5.5. Disadvantages to the principal
  • 5.6. Traditional contract strategy
  • 5.7. Standard forms of general conditions of contract for use with the traditional method of project delivery
  • 6. Non-traditional methods of project delivery
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Design and construct method
  • 6.3. Construction management method
  • 6.4. Project management method
  • 6.5. In-house development method
  • 6.6. Public private partnership
  • 6.7. Performance of different methods of project delivery
  • 6.8. Impact of non-traditional methods on different contractual parties
  • 6.9. Impact of non-traditional methods on the construction industry
  • 7. Administration of managed methods of project delivery
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. The agency CM method
  • 7.3. The non-agency CM method
  • 7.4. General comments on managed delivery methods
  • 7.5. Construction packages
  • 7.6. Cost administration
  • 7.7. Time administration
  • 7.8. Incentives.
  • Note continued: 8. Partnering and startegic alliance
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Definition of partnering
  • 8.3. History of partnering
  • 8.4. Essential elements of partnering
  • 8.5. Types of partnering
  • 8.6. Partnering process
  • 8.7. Performance of partnering
  • 8.8. Partnering performance indicators
  • 8.9. Reward for performance
  • 8.10. Legal issues in partnering
  • 8.11. Startegic alliance
  • 9.Competitive tendering
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Formation of building contracts and subcontracts
  • 9.3. Tender documentation
  • 9.4. Tender process
  • 9.5. Selection of the best tender
  • 9.6.A model of effective tender administration
  • 9.7. Cost of tendering
  • 10. Subcontracting practice
  • 10.1. Introduction
  • 10.2. History of subcontracting
  • 10.3. Subcontracting in the US, UK and Australian construction industries
  • 10.4. Risks in subcontracting in Australia
  • 10.5. Subcontract conditions
  • 10.6. Subcontracting and the principal.
  • Note continued: 10.7. Bid shopping in the construction industry
  • 11. Risk allocation: a new approach
  • 11.1. Risk allocation theory
  • 11.2. Analysing the theory
  • 11.3. An alternative approach
  • pt. 2 CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION
  • 12. Analysis of general conditions of contract
  • 12.1. Introduction
  • 12.2. Risk allocation
  • 12.3. Flow of information
  • 12.4. General contract clauses
  • 12.5. Latent conditions
  • 12.6. Responsibilities of contractual parties
  • 12.7. Assignment and subcontracting
  • 12.8. Time
  • 12.9. Payment to contractor
  • 12.10. Adjustment of contract sum
  • 12.11. Contract insurance
  • 12.12. Defective work
  • 12.13. Termination of contract
  • 12.14. Disputes
  • 13.A guide to the selection and preparation of contracts
  • 13.1. Introduction
  • 13.2. Types of contract
  • 13.3. Cost risk by type of delivery method
  • 13.4. Clauses and conditions of contract
  • 13.5. Risk in specific contract clauses
  • 13.6. Special conditions of contract.
  • Note continued: 14. Defective work
  • 14.1. Introduction
  • 14.2. Duties of superintendent
  • 14.3. Implications of concurrent tort liability
  • 14.4. Estoppel
  • 14.5. Agreement to overcome defect
  • 14.6. Rectification order
  • 14.7. Trifling defect
  • 14.8. Progress payments
  • 14.9. Electing to accept defective work
  • 14.10. Valuing involuntarily accepted defective work
  • 14.11. Variations to overcome a defect
  • 14.12. Summary
  • 15. Legislation and registration
  • 15.1. Legislative framework
  • 15.2. Contracting entity
  • 15.3. Licensing and registration
  • 15.4. Unlicensed contracting: offence
  • 15.5. Unlicensed contracting: payment
  • 15.6. Limits on freedom to contract
  • 15.7. Trade Practices Act
  • 16. Construction programs
  • 16.1. Introduction
  • 16.2. Purpose of programs
  • 16.3. Interpretation of construction programs
  • pt. 3 POST-CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION
  • 17. Contract disputes
  • 17.1. Introduction
  • 17.2. Contractual notice provisions.
  • Note continued: 17.3.Common sources of contractor's claims
  • 17.4. Types of claims
  • 17.5. Claims preparation
  • 17.6. Quantifying a claim
  • 17.7. Damages
  • 17.8. Unjust enrichment
  • 17.9. Latent defects and economic loss
  • 17.10. Hudson formula and prevention principle
  • 17.11. Frustration
  • 17.12. Termination
  • 18. Dispute resolution
  • 18.1. Introduction
  • 18.2. Resolution by agreement
  • 18.3. Resolution by a binding decision of a third party
  • 18.4. Litigation
  • 18.5. Arbitration
  • 18.6. Expert determination
  • 18.7. Differences between experts and arbitrators
  • 19. Security of payment
  • 19.1. Introduction
  • 19.2. Payment culture of the construction industry
  • 19.3. Means of securing payment
  • 19.4. Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW)
  • 19.5. Acceptance or otherwise of the NSW Act by courts
  • 19.6. Acceptance or otherwise of the NSW Act by courts
  • 19.7. Brief overview of different security of payment schemes.

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