Building Safety Act Focus for JCT Povey Webinar

/ JCT Povey Lecture

The Building Safety Act and its implications for both projects and construction contracts will be under consideration for the JCT Povey Webinar 2022. Gary Neal, head of fire, Skanska UK will be delivering a presentation covering the key aspects of the Building Safety Act, focusing in particular on the practical implications of the legislation on construction projects. Following the main presentation, Gary will join a panel for further discussion and audience questions, led by JCT chair, Karen Kirkham and featuring Amanda Long, chief executive, Considerate…

JCT Training Update

/ Education, Skills and Students, JCT Product Updates

Autumn 2022 Training Course Dates and Brand New JCT Training Video Module Courses… We have announced our range of available JCT Training courses for the Autumn 2022 season. We continue to provide a flexible range of face-to-face and digital webinar courses covering some of our best-selling contract families. Whether you opt for one of our full day, in-person courses, providing a thorough grounding in a contract, or one of our introductory 3-hour interactive webinars, we have the tools to help you improve your understanding of…

The Alice Hawthorn, Nun Monkton, Yorkshire

/ Case Studies

Named after a famous 19th century racehorse, The Alice Hawthorn pub has undergone a transformation with the renovation of its Grade II listed main pub building and the addition of 12 brand new guestrooms whose design befits its rural location and history. It charges out of the gate to the colours of a JCT Standard Building Contract. The Alice Hawthorn is the last remaining pub in the Yorkshire village of Nun Monkton, the closure of four other pubs being indicative of the socio-economic and legal…

A Consideration of 3 Relevant Construction Matters

/ JCT Young Professionals Group, Legislation

Blog Author: Su Sharma – Skanska UK Last year, the JCT Young Professionals Group (YPG) kindly invited me to speak on three of their chosen topics, Modular Construction – The Future of Construction, Draft Building Safety Bill (as it then was at the time), and PI Insurance: Current Position. This article for JCT News includes those topic areas I covered with the YPG, as a summary for JCT News readers, and to provide an update where applicable on the current situation.   Modular Construction –…

JCT Interviews…David King

/ Interviews

In the JCT Interviews… series we shine the spotlight on some of the key people who are involved with or give their time to support JCT, showing the diverse range of disciplines across the construction industry that our members represent and the collaborative work that contributes to the development of our contracts. We look at how our interviewees contribute to JCT specifically and gain their views on the wider industry and JCT’s role within it.   David King Member, JCT Council RIBA representative Current job…

Rolling Out PBAs in JCT Contracts

/ Contractual Issues, JCT Product Updates

Blog Author: John Riches – Vice-Chair, JCT Drafting Sub-Committee   Project bank account provisions are now available for all JCT contract suites – improving cash flow through the industry… Lord Denning said in Modern Engineering (Bristol) Ltd vs Gilbert Ash (Northern) Ltd 1973 that “cash flow is the lifeblood” of the construction industry – a sentiment that is particularly apposite where parties feel they are not being paid enough or on time. There have been a plethora of reports on the ills of the industry featuring…

Smart Contracts – What Are They and How Do They Fit in With Traditional Contracts?

/ Contractual Issues, Digital

Blog Authors: Charles Maurice, Partner and Daniel Fournier, Paralegal – Stevens & Bolton LLP   Smart contracts – fruit of the nascent distributed ledger technology – are an emergent disruptor to the legal landscape, but what are they and how do they fit in with traditional contracts? You might be forgiven for thinking that contract law in the UK is neither modern nor smart: after all at times we still rely on legal principles handed down in judgments from the Victorian era and earlier. However,…

Post-Brexit Procurement Reforms to Take Shape in 2022

/ Legislation

Blog Author: Graeme Young, Partner and Kirsti McKenzie, Associate – CMS On 6 December 2021, the Cabinet Office published its plans for transforming public procurement rules post-Brexit. The plans involve introducing primary legislation to Parliament in the form of the Procurement Bill, which will be further implemented through secondary legislation together with ‘a detailed package of published resources (statutory and non-statutory guidance on the key elements of the regulatory framework, templates, model procedures and case studies)’. These reforms were consulted on over a year ago (the Green Paper was…

JCT’s Updated PBA 2022 Now Available in Hardcopy and Digital Formats

/ JCT Product Updates

Back in February, JCT announced the release of the Project Bank Account Documentation 2022 (PBA 2022). The new product is now available in all formats, including hardcopy, JCT On Demand digital, and as part of the JCT Construct subscription service, via the JCT Online Store. Project Bank Account documentation is designed to help parties to a JCT contract who wish to set up a Project Bank Account as part of their fair payment practices. PBA 2022 comprises three parts: JCT Project Bank Account Agreement (PBA)….

Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building, University of Warwick

/ Case Studies

The University of Warwick’s Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building (IBRB) is a world class research facility, remarkable for its extensive use of offsite manufacture which ensured it could be delivered to quality and timescale, whilst also being highly sustainable. The project was built on a JCT Design and Build Contract. The IBRB is a £33m project providing a state-of-the-art facility on the University of Warwick’s Gibbet Hall campus. It was designed by Hawkins Brown Architects and Fairhurst Design Group. The main contractor was Wilmott Dixon. Apropos…