Course Content:
OVERVIEW
INTRODUCTION
Design & build in construction
• Framing the requirements
• Full design responsibility or design development
• Contractor’s liability for design
• Introduction to JCT and NEC contracts
JCT DESIGN AND BUILD
• Contract documents
• Employer’s Requirements
• Contractor’s Proposals
• Contract Sum Analysis
• Priority of documents
• Responsibility of design provided by Employer
• Liability for design – reasonable skill and care
• Dealing with discrepancies
• Approving design
• Changes to the design
• Effect of changes
FUNDAMENTALS OF NEC3/ECC
• Main Options
• Secondary Options
• Contract Data
• Schedules of Cost Components
• Works information
• Site information
• Pricing documents
• Use of the programme
• Compensation events
NEC3/ECC – DESIGN AND BUILD
• Including design by Contractor
• Works Information
o provided by Employer
o provided by Contractor
• Discrepancies
• Liability for design
• Accepting design
• Changes to Works Information
• Notifying and assessing compensation events
COMPARISON OF JCT/NEC3
• Establishing the requirements
• Mix and match approach in NEC3
• Priority of documents
• Discrepancies
• Valuing changes
MAKING CONTRACTOR RESPONSIBLE FOR WHOLE DESIGN
• Different approaches
• Need for legal advice
PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE
• Purpose
• Period of cover
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
• Ownership of design
• Transfer of ownership
• Licence to use
• Breach of patent rights
ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS
• Defining the requirements
• Specifying what is ‘precious’
• Controlling the Contractor’s submission
• Eliminating discrepancies
• Avoiding change
• Reviewing the design
• Monitoring the quality
• Following contract procedures
CONCLUSION
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