Insurance provisions of JCT forms

摘要

In November 1996 a fire occurred on a construction site in Reading where GD Construction (St Albans) was renovating an inn called The Thatchers for the client Scottish & Newcastle. Employees of one of GD's subcontractors were in the process of applying a layer of bituminised felt to a piece of board fitted between the vertical wall of the brick building and the original thatched roof over the first floor kitchen of the inn. The roofer engaged in carrying out this work was using a blow torch to heat the felt, when he ignited a section of the straw thatch on the roof.