Construction Contract Preparation and Management: From Concept to Completion

ISBN-13: 9781137511140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 504 str.

Geoff Powell

Opis

This fully updated new edition of this practical and popular text starts at the beginning of projects and makes lucid connections between stages which are often misunderstood. It covers NEC and JCT contracts, considering the topic from an industry perspective and including key issues such as Health and Safety, the environment and EU regulations.

Spis treści

1. The Construction Industry 2. The Investment Process 3. Parties and Stakeholders 4. An Introduction to Contracts 5. Tendering and Contractor Selection 6. Site Investigation 7. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) and Safety 8. Contract Strategies: Separated, Integrated and Management 9. Contract Strategies: Partnering and Commercial Arrangements 10. Designers and Design Contracts 11. Framework Agreements and the EU Procurement Directives 12. Pricing and Payment Mechanisms 13. Methods of Measurement and BoQs 14. Time and Programmes 15. Contract Law 16. Liquidated Damages 17. Negligence 18. Construction Contracts 19. NEC3 ECC Fundamentals20. NEC3 Preparing the Contract 21. NEC3 ECC Core Clauses One and Two 22. NEC3 ECC Core Clauses Three and Four 23. NEC3 ECC Core Clauses Five 24. NEC ECC Core Clauses Six 25. NEC ECC Core Clauses Seven to Nine 26. JCT Standard Building Contract SCB11 27. Dispute Resolution.

O autorze

Geoff Powell is Senior Lecturer in Construction Contracts, Contract Management and Procurement at Coventry University, UK. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer, with many years of experience in industry, including twelve years as a senior manager with Severn Trent Water, where he was responsible for the design and delivery of a capital programme of over £100 million per annum, the management of a number of design offices and of up to two hundred engineers. For 20 years, he was also responsible for the training of graduates as a Supervising Civil Engineer for the Institution of Civil Engineers.