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International Construction Contract Management

A Compendium of Knowledge

Publication Date June 2005
Publisher Ashgate Publishing
Product Type Book
Pages 334
ISBN Number 9780566086977
Product Code ASH00314
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Summary

International Construction Contract Management is a comprehensive, easy to understand and practical reference book for construction professionals working on overseas projects. Written by Bryan Morgan, a surveyor and contract claims consultant with over 40 years' experience of construction contract and claims-related management from around the world, this book has been designed specifically to help in overcoming the day-to-day contractual problems encountered in the field.

International Construction Contract Management acknowledges that the management of projects is frequently problematic because they are rarely comprised of straightforward buildings or procured under standard forms of contract. Based on case histories from around the globe, the book serves as an invaluable general guide to current interpretations under Common Law, Civil Code rules and customary trade and industrial practices. It clarifies terms and points of law to offer guidance that can be applied in most situations, helping the reader to resolve problems quickly and without outside assistance or resorting to expensive litigation.

Organised topic by topic in alphabetical order and supplemented by sample forms and checklists, International Construction Contract Management will be of use to architects, engineers, project managers, contract managers, claims consultants, quantity surveyors, contract administrators and contract engineers.

Content

  • Acceleration - directed and constructive
  • Access to site (possession, availability, restrictions, delays)
  • Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
  • Ambiguities, conflicts and inconsistencies
  • Applicable laws
  • Assignment and novation
  • Bonds and guarantees
  • Change order management
  • Claim prompt list
  • Claim review and preparation
  • Claims and the arbitrator
  • Concurrent delay
  • Consideration
  • Contemporary records
  • Contra proferentem rule
  • Contract close out
  • Contract - maxims and rules of interpretation
  • Damages (including consequential and indirect loss/damage)
  • Dayworks
  • Decennial liability
  • Delay analysis
  • Depositions
  • Discovery
  • Document control
  • Duty to warn
  • Estoppel
  • Exclusive remedies
  • Exemption clauses
  • Fitness for purpose
  • Float and its ownership
  • Force majeure
  • Fundamental elements of effective contract management
  • Implied terms
  • Indemnity
  • Insolvency
  • Insurance claims
  • Interrogatories
  • Kick-off meeting
  • Latent defects - limitation of liability
  • Letters of credit
  • Letters of intent
  • Minutes of meetings
  • Mitigation
  • Monthly reports
  • Negotiation procedures
  • Notices
  • Omission of work - loss of contractor's profit
  • Pre-tender information report
  • Prevention
  • Quantum meruit
  • Reasonable skill and care
  • Requests for information (RFI submissions)
  • Restitution
  • Restrictions on trade
  • Retention
  • Rights of third parties
  • Risk allocation, assignment and assumption
  • Ruling language
  • Set-off
  • Sub-soil investigations included with tender enquiry
  • Subject to contract
  • Subrogation
  • Tender rate errors
  • Time at large
  • Time for review
  • Time of the essence
  • Without prejudice
  • Appendices: Glossary of terms
  • International legal systems
  • Contractor's pre-tender site review
  • Contractor's Pre-Tender information confirmation
  • Daywork record sheet
  • Overage, shortage and damage (O.S.D.) Report
  • Monthly progress report format
  • Change order proposal
  • Subcontractor taking over certificate
  • Subcontract close-out check list
  • Subcontractor final completion certificate
  • Law report abbreviations & table of cases.