Regulation

摘要

The recent storms and flooding will have delayed projects by, for example, causing transport disruption to labour and suppliers. Sites are also unlikely to have been adequately protected to repel the effects of the extreme weather conditions. We expect many readers will have opened their contracts to see how such weather conditions and consequent delays were dealt with. Reports record that the storms were on the 'one-in-20' year scale. Building contracts vary in how they allocate risk of costs and delays of such events. For illustration, we look at the Joint Contracts Tribunal and New Engineering Contract standard forms.