Building Contract Casebook

Building Contract Casebook

von: Michael Furmston

Wiley, 2012

ISBN: 9781119963875 , 505 Seiten

Format: PDF, OL

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Building Contract Casebook


 

Powell-Smith and Furmston’s Building Contract Casebook

5

Contents

7

Preface

9

PART I: FORMATION OF THE CONTRACT

11

Chapter 1: Letters of Intent

13

Chapter 2: Costs of Tendering

19

Chapter 3: Tenders and Estimates

24

Chapter 4: Incorporation of Documents

30

Chapter 5: Completion of the Contract

53

PART II: PERFORMANCE OF THE CONTRACT

69

Chapter 6: The Contractor’s Obligations

71

Design

71

Materials and workmanship

84

Progress and completion

102

Indemnities and insurance

105

Chapter 7: The Employer’s Obligations

143

Possession of site

143

Time and extent of possession

143

Site conditions

147

Co-operation

152

Instructions

161

Payment

164

Lump sum contracts

165

Other contracts

168

Retention

169

Quantum meruit

172

Set-off

175

Miscellaneous

186

Nomination of sub-contractors and specialists

186

Objection to nominees

186

Displacement of implied terms

187

Form of sub-contracts

187

Effect of failure

187

Default in supply of goods

188

Chapter 8: Ownership and Vesting of Materials

190

Materials and goods

190

Vesting clauses

195

Chapter 9: Acceptance and Defects

197

Chapter 10: Approval and Certificates

201

General

201

Nature and effect of certificates

214

Recovery without certificate

236

Chapter 11: Variations

238

Chapter 12: Damages for Breach of Construction Contracts

256

Chapter 13: Prolongation and Disruption Claims

282

Chapter 14: Liquidated Damages and Extensions of Time

329

Liquidated damages

329

Extensions of time

346

Interpretation of provisions

361

PART III: DISCHARGE OF THE CONTRACT

363

Chapter 15: Release

365

Chapter 16: Frustration

368

Chapter 17: Illegality

375

Chapter 18: Forfeiture Clauses, Repudiation and Determination

379

Chapter 19: Limitation

398

The Limitation Act 1980

398

Latent Damage Act 1986

401

PART IV: SUB-CONTRACTS AND SUB-CONTRACTING

409

Chapter 20: Assignment and Sub-letting

411

Chapter 21: Domestic Sub-contractors

421

Chapter 22: Nominated Sub-contractors

424

PART V: BUILDING CONTRACTS AND THE LAW OF TORT

451

Chapter 23: Building Contracts and the Law of Tort

453

Table of Cases

477

INDEX

495