Arbitration
Under the ICE conditions, Clause 66, either the employer or contractor can serve a Notice of Dissatisfaction on the engineer stating […]
Project managment
Ancillary contractual practices
By the end of the 1990s the construction industry had tried out a variety of permutations of construction procedures, most
Alternative dispute resolution
The time consuming and sometimes expensive traditional methods of resolution of disputes by reference to the courts or arbitration led to
Adjustment item to the total price
An adjustment item is an addition or deduction a tenderer makes to the final total of his prices entered in the
Agreeing quantities for payment
The way in which the resident engineer should measure quantities has already been described in Section 13.6. In that section the
Adjudication
The Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act, 1996, (see Section 1.6) introduced for the first time in English Law a requirement
Accounting methods
While the agent may have wide authority on site, the large sums of money he commits his firm to spending must
Accuracy of quantities: provisional quantities
In preparing the bills, the quantities should be accurately taken off drawings in accordance with the method of measurement. The quantities
A criticism of certain systems
Acriticism of systems such as BOOT and PFI is that only the larger contracting firms with large financial resources or