DESIGN AND BUILD

The Joint Contract tribunal Design and Build Contract

Table of Contents

Design and build Contract1

Section 11

Acceleration Quotation Process1

Section 23

The Construction Plan3

The Role of Principal Contractor in Construction Phase Plan4

The Role of Architect or Contract Administrator in Construction Phase Plan5

The Role of Quantity Surveyor in Construction Phase Plan6

The Role of Sub contractors in Construction Phase Plan7

Section 38

Target Cost8

Site Construction Programme start date or Possession Date8

Design Programme Start Date8

Key performance indicators9

Contract Sum9

Contingency Sum9

Practical Completion Date10

Completion Date10

Resolution of Disputes11

Section 412

Deadline of deviated notifications12

Decisions regarding Variation in Contract13

Forms of Notice of Discrepancies received by Contractor13

Communications of the consequences of the variations in contract14

Determination of Charges due to variation in contracts14

Determination of Time due to variation in contracts15

Section 515

Health and Safety15

Progress of the works16

Public and Community Relations16

Sustainability17

Waste17

People at work18

Laws of land18

Insurance18

Section 619

Question: Which decisions are made jointly and by whom and under what circumstances?19

Decisions made jointly with perspective of Contract Management19

Question: Which decisions are made by one of the parties alone and under what circumstances?19

Decisions made one Party with perspective of Contract Management19

Section 720

Difficulties in Navigating the Contract20

Difficulties in Understanding the Jargons21

Difficulties in Understanding the obligations imposed21

Difficulties in identifying the roles of Key parties21

Conclusion22

References23

The Joint Contract tribunal Design and Build Contract

Design and build Contract

The Joint Contract tribunal or JCT Design and Build Contract is particularly used for the designing and building construction projects in which contractor is responsible for doing design and construction tasks. There are basically three main parties involved in carrying out the project and these include the employer, the contractor and the Construction Design Management Regulatory Body. The main features of this contract include that the role contractor, who is liable for carrying out the process of construction and architectural design as well if required, the employer is responsible for establishing the guidelines and plans of requirements and changes required at any stage, the employer chooses an agent who oversees the operations on behalf of employer and the works under this contract are suppose to be carried out in sections.

Section 1

Question: How does the contract reward or permit those to benefit who finish the contract early and / or under the target cost or to better quality than that defined by Client and User and Performance Requirements?

Acceleration Quotation Process

This process is known as Acceleration Quotation, it facilitates an employer who would like to inspect the probability of actual completion of project by contractor earlier than then mention completion date in the contract. It may apply to a project as whole or just a section of project. The law of build and design in this case requires that the employer must request for proposals from the contractors, which is called an “Acceleration Quotation” (Design and Build Contract, 2009, pp. 25).

The contractor is obligated to specify an Acceleration Quotation that should determine the time of employer, which could be saved, and the total adjusted amount with respect to the sum of the cost of contract. In addition, contractor has to describe the reasons pertaining to impracticability to attain the actual completion of project before the ...