Guide to the RIBA Domestic and Concise Building Contracts 2014

This latest title from Sarah Lupton, best-selling author of construction contract guides, provides comprehensive guidance to the RIBA’s two new building contracts: the RIBA Domestic Building Contract 2014 and the RIBA Concise Building Contract 2014. Introducing the contracts’ features and benefits and covering all aspects of their use, from choosing and forming the right one for your project to guiding the parties through all its various stages, the Guide serves as the definitive introduction and an invaluable desktop reference for the busy contract administrator. Written in plain English to complement the RIBA Building Contracts themselves, the Guide assumes no prior knowledge of construction law or contracts; it is therefore also the ideal reference book for construction students on the threshold of undertaking their professional examinations.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction - Background, key features and differences between the forms, outline comparison with other forms. Chapter 2: When to use the forms - Application of Housing Grants Act etc., definition of ‘residential occupier’ - Consumer protection legislation, explanation of a ‘consumer’ client, implications for projects. - Procurement route and risks distribution - Implications of client occupation or otherwise - Indemnification and insurance arrangements Chapter 3: Forming the contract - Tender processes, alternative procedures with these forms - Information that must be included in tender documents, checklist of decisions required by client - Preparing the contract: the form, and possible accompanying documents - Priority of documents; supplementary information, incorporation by reference, interaction between this and express terms Chapter 4: Roles of the parties - Key duties and responsibilities (outlined and tabulated), including statutory duties - Administrator’s main obligations and role - Contractor’s main obligations including standard of work - Contractor design obligations, handling of information, e.g. shop drawings - Client involvement, rights and procedures. Chapter 5: Project Progress - The programme, starting, progress, delays, extensions of time. Chapter 6: Payment and certification - Contract sum, what work must be provided for the sum - Payments in advance - Off-site and unfixed goods - Progress payments, certification, notices - Non-payment and its implications Chapter 7: Completion and post completion - Procedures at completion - Post completion, dealing with defects Chapter 8: Problems and disputes - Breach of contract, summary of measures that can be taken - Termination - Dispute handling and resolution

About the Author :
Dual qualified in both architecture and law, Sarah Lupton is a partner in Lupton Stellakis, architects, and holds a personal chair at Cardiff University. As a specialist in design liability and construction law she also practices as a Chartered Arbitrator, adjudicator and expert witness, and is author of a number of books including Which Contract? (RIBA Publishing), the highly popular Guides to JCT Contracts series (RIBA Publishing), and a new edition of Cornes and Lupton’s Design Liability in the Construction Industry (Wiley-Blackwell).