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New course added to JCT’s online training programme

/ Education, Skills and Students, Latest News, Press Releases

JCT has released the latest batch of dates for its JCT Training Online courses, including a range of new courses that have been added to its digital programme for the first time. The dates for May/June 2021 include new courses on the JCT Standard Building Contract 2016, JCT Intermediate Building Contract 2016, and JCT Minor Works Building Contract 2016. These are in addition to the JCT Design and Build Contract 2016 and JCT Contracts 2016 – The Legal Perspective courses, which launched last year and…

Insurance and JCT contracts: Your Questions Answered

/ Insurance Provisions

Blog Author: Douglas Brown – Renovation Underwriting Douglas Brown, Managing Director of specialist renovation policy provider Renovation Underwriting, shares his views and insights on JCT contracts and renovation insurance more widely. It might be a surprise to know that most home renovators, and many home insurance brokers, have no knowledge of JCT contracts. In most cases, it is only when a homeowner needs to arrange the insurance for their home undergoing work that they uncover just exactly what is involved. Very few even notify their…

JCT Training Online – Book a Place Today on one of our Interactive Online Courses

/ Education, Skills and Students

JCT has launched the next batch of new JCT Training Online courses. The dates and courses listed below are now available to book from the JCT online store at www.jctltd.co.uk/jct-training. A reminder about JCT Training Online: Courses are 3 hours duration, delivered as live broadcast webinars. Courses feature the same expert trainers as the face-to-face courses – all either past or current members of the JCT Council or JCT Drafting Sub-Committee. Interactivity is provided with the ability to ask questions through the interface during set…

Tameside Wellness Centre, Greater Manchester

/ Case Studies

Built on a JCT Design and Build Contract and completed ahead of schedule in March last year, the Tameside Wellness Centre in Denton, Greater Manchester, is the crowning glory of a 12-acre residential, retail, and health development to transform a local community. The launch of the Tameside Wellness Centre in March 2020 was the culmination of a two-decade journey for Warrington-based developer, Network Space, to transform a derelict brownfield site and provide much needed regeneration – reinvigorating and giving a fresh identity to the local…

New From JCT – Dispute Adjudication Board Documentation 2021 (DAB 2021)

/ JCT Product Updates

JCT has announced the release of the Dispute Adjudication Board Documentation 2021 (DAB 2021), a new addition to the JCT 2016 contract suite. Designed for use with the JCT 2016 Design and Build Contract (DB) and JCT Major Project Construction Contract (MP). Enables parties entering into contract with either of the above forms to establish and operate a Dispute Adjudication Board. The documentation comprises the JCT/CIArb Dispute Adjudication Board Rules, a JCT Model Dispute Adjudication Board Tripartite Agreement, and enabling provisions for each of DB…

JCT Interviews…Karen Kirkham, JCT Chair

/ 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. Karen Kirkham is the new JCT chair. She is a…

JCT Dispute Adjudication Documentation 2021 available for pre-order

/ JCT Product Updates, Latest News, Press Releases

JCT has announced the pre-order release of the JCT Dispute Adjudication Board Documentation 2021 (DAB 2021), a new addition to the JCT 2016 contract suite. DAB 2021 provides a proactive approach to dispute avoidance and resolution. The document pack, including a model Tripartite Agreement, enabling provisions for both the JCT Design and Build Contract and JCT Major Project Construction Contract forms, and guidance notes, contains all the tools required to establish and operate a Dispute Adjudication Board under a JCT contract. The aim is to…

JCT Contracts and the Construction Playbook – new article available

/ Latest News, Press Releases, Public Sector

Following the publication of the Construction Playbook by HM Government in December 2020, JCT has made available an article, ‘JCT Contracts meeting the objectives of the Construction Playbook’, which provides an analysis on how users wishing to comply with the Playbook’s objectives can do so within the current JCT suite of contracts. The Construction Playbook is a guidance document aimed at professionals across public sector bodies who are responsible for the planning and delivery of public work programmes and projects. The document sets out 14…

JCT Contracts Meeting the Objectives of the Construction Playbook

/ Legislation, Public Sector

The Construction Playbook HM Government published The Construction Playbook, Government Guidance (Guidance) on sourcing and contracting public works projects and programmes in December 2020. That guidance, although developed through a collaboration of the public and private sectors, is principally concerned with the public sector building and infrastructure programmes. Nevertheless, it also can be applied, in part, to the private sector. The public sector is defined as central government, including arm’s length bodies, which must either comply or explain any divergence from the Guidance. The wider…

Chair’s Letter: Better Information Management

/ Chairman's Blog

Blog Author: Richard Saxon, CBE Readers may be familiar with my interest in Building Information Modelling or BIM. Since the turn of the century I have been involved with the concept, helping to spur the government to make it their policy to mandate its use. In 2012 I was commissioned to produce a report for what is now BEIS on ‘BIM for Growth’, the potential effect on economic growth of the uptake of BIM in the UK. I became ‘UK BIM Ambassador for Growth’ in…