Effective contract management of design-build projects

This course looks at how to carry out successful design and build contracts using either JCT Design and Build, NEC3/ECC or PPC2000 conditions of contract. The course will contrast the different forms, highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses and will identify the essentials in them all for undertaking successful design and build projects.

SPEAKER ALL VENUES
• Kevin McKee

OVERVIEW

INTRODUCTION

DESIGN & BUILD IN CONSTRUCTION
• Framing the requirements
• Full design responsibility or design development
• Contractor’s liability for design
• Introduction to JCT and NEC contracts
• Performance requirements/results
• Getting the Contract right
• Appropriate contracts
• Allocation of risk

JCT DESIGN AND BUILD
• Contract documents
• Employer’s Requirements
• Contractor’s Proposals
• Contract Sum Analysis
• Priority of documents
• Responsibility of design provided by Employer
• Liability for design – reasonable skill and care
• Dealing with discrepancies


• Approving design
• Changes to the design
• Effect of changes

FUNDAMENTALS OF NEC3/ECC
• Main Options
• Secondary Options
• Contract Data
• Schedules of Cost Components
• Works information
• Site information
• Pricing documents
• Use of the programme
• Compensation events

NEC3/ECC – DESIGN AND BUILD
• Including design by Contractor
• Works Information
o provided by Employer
o provided by Contractor
• Discrepancies
• Liability for design
• Accepting design
• Changes to Works Information
• Notifying and assessing compensation events

PPC2000
• Design ‘Brief’ and ‘Proposals’
• Development of Design Pre-commencement
• Fixing the Scope
• Optional design standards and risk allocation

COMPARISON OF JCT/NEC3/PPC2000
• Establishing the requirements
• Mix and match approach in NEC3
• Priority of documents
• Discrepancies
• Valuing changes

MAKING CONTRACTOR RESPONSIBLE FOR WHOLE DESIGN
• Different approaches
• Need for legal advice


PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE
• Purpose
• Period of cover

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
• Ownership of design
• Transfer of ownership
• Licence to use
• Breach of patent rights

ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS
• Defining the requirements
• Specifying what is ’previous’
• Controlling the Contractor’s submission
• Eliminating discrepancies
• Avoiding change
• Reviewing the design
• Monitoring the quality
• Following contract procedures

CONCLUSION

Delivery:	Classroom
Regions:	North West England The West Midlands London
Category:	Construction Contracts