ABSTRACT
In 2002, the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) published standard form construction management procurement documents for the first time, which were updated in 2005 and most recently in 2011. When construction management is used to procure works, the client appoints a team of consultants to prepare the design. The client also appoints a specialist construction manager, whose principal role is to manage the construction of the works by a team of specialist trade contractors. The services to be provided by the construction manager are defined by the employer and the construction manager on a project by project basis and some care needs to be given to the definition of those obligations as regards the practical construction and consideration of obligations that arise for the purposes of clause 6.1 and the insuring obligations. The construction manager is not necessarily an individual, but can a company engaged to undertake the broad scope of duties and obligations set out at section 2 of CM/A11.
