ABSTRACT

Over many years the building industry has been aware of the problems associated with the placing and management of building contracts . The problems are numerous and diverse and concern all facets of the building process from inception to completion. They relate to methods of communication, to quality assurance and to time and to money constraints. From the client perspective, late completion of the building project, excesses to the contract sum and poor quality workmanship cause the most concern whereas the contractor is incensed with difficulties created by incomplete design, poor quality and untimely information, inadequate time allowances for the processing of that information and unrealistic and delayed payments for work carried out. The diagnosis of the industry has resulted in modifications being introduced to the established procedures since the publication of The Banwell Report in 1964. More recently Codes of Convention have been formulated by the Co-ordinating Committee for Project Information (CCPI). Substantial changes have been made to standard forms of contract conditions and new forms have been

and the Building Employers Confederation.