Extensions of time, defects, valuation, certificates and payment, architect’s instructions, liquidated damages and loss or expense due to issues of practical completion, adjudication and fees. These are just some of the topics that come up time and again in construction law.

Construction contracts: questions and answers by David Chappell, professor and senior research fellow at the Queen’s University Belfast, aims to provide straightforward answers to questions arising in construction law.

Some questions are relatively simple, such as ‘what date should be put on a contract?’. But more elaborate ones might involve whether the contractor is entitled to take possession of a section of the work even though it is the contractor’s fault that possession is not practicable.

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Building Sustainable Design

Postscript

Construction contracts: questions and answers is published by Taylor & Francis and is priced £24.99.