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JCT Young Professionals Group Partner With CIOB And RICS For First Joint Event

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JCT’s Young Professional Group (YPG) are to host their first joint networking event in partnership with members of the Chartered Institute of Building’s (CIOB) Tomorrow’s Leaders, and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) Matrics UK. The event, taking place on 26 October at RICS headquarters in London, will be the first time that JCT’s YPG has joined with peer groups from professional bodies across the construction industry. The event will be an opportunity for members from the three groups to meet informally, discuss ideas…

JCT Povey Lecture 2023 To Host ‘The Terminator’

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Simon Tolson, senior partner at Fenwick Elliot LLP, will give the JCT Povey Lecture 2023, entitled ‘The Terminator’, on Wednesday, 22 November 2023. The presentation will discuss the latest case law, developments, and legal issues surrounding the termination of construction contracts. Termination is a powerful and definitive device that discharges all unperformed primary obligations under the contract yet to accrue and ends the contractual relationship, often instantaneously. Profound commercial and financial consequences for the parties can ensue. This can be acute for the defaulting party….

JCT: The Next Evolution

/ JCT 2024 Edition

Blog Authors: Michael Bennett and Amber Wright – Shoosmiths At a recent event, Karen Kirkham (chair of JCT) and Sean Smylie (vice chair of the JCT) outlined the eagerly anticipated changes to the JCT Suite of contracts. Speaking to members of the SCL in Birmingham on 28 February 2023, it was confirmed that the next edition is likely to be called JCT 2024 and is anticipated to be issued in the early part of next year. The final decision on the release date will be…

JCT Interviews…

/ Interviews, JCT Young Professionals Group

JCT Young Professionals Group: founder member leaders In this series we find out more about some of the key people who give their time to support the JCT Young Professionals Group (JCT YPG). We will look at our interviewees’ background and how they got into the industry, the importance of their contribution to JCT YPG specifically, and gain their views on JCT’s wider role within the industry. Charlie Saunders Associate, Emerson Bond Charlie started his career as a quantity surveyor at Walter Lilly & Co….

Case Study: Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw Café

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The café at the gallery and performing arts venue Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, on the north Wales coast, takes inspiration from the local marine wildlife and the spirit of scientific discovery and exploration during the time of the Victorian building’s original construction. Attracting local residents and visitors alike, the café was built on a JCT Intermediate Building Contract with Contractor’s Design. Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw’s new café replaces a replica conservatory originally built in the 1980s. Its limited capacity and poor environmental performance led to a rethink,…

Contracting for Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)

/ Contractual Issues

Blog Author: Peter Hibberd Views on MMC range from its adoption being the only proper solution for meeting building needs, to its being old hat, and only able to produce aesthetic mediocrity. Neither view is true; nor is it true that standard construction contracts per se are a barrier to adopting MMC. Our understanding of MMC is often confused, despite the MHCLG Joint Industry Working Group’s 2019 publication ‘Modern Methods of Construction’, which introduces its MMC definition framework. A definition that comprises seven categories and…

JCT Training Courses For Autumn 2023 Launched

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JCT has announced new dates for the autumn series of its training courses. The courses, scheduled for September and October 2023, include a range of in-person and online courses focusing on individual contract families within the JCT 2016 Edition of Contracts. Since its launch in 2018, JCT Training has provided courses on a range of JCT contracts and contract related issues. Delivered by JCT experts, all either present or past members of the JCT Council or JCT Drafting Sub-Committee (responsible for drafting each edition of…

Changing our Industry: Three Horizons, Four Capitals

/ Sustainability

Blog Author: Richard Saxon CBE “How very little, since things were made, has anything altered in the building trade”. Rudyard Kipling A generation has passed since the excitement of the 1990s as first Latham and then Egan called for radical change in the construction industry. Initiatives seemed to pour out of both government and the industry, yet here we are in 2023 with an industry which seems much the same, racked by cost pressures, defensive, risky, unsustainable and unattractive to the workforce that it needs….

JCT Chair Continues For Second Term

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JCT has announced that its chair, Karen Kirkham, has been re-appointed for a second term, extending her tenure to February 2027. Karen Kirkham, who is a construction lawyer at BDB Pitmans LLP, was appointed JCT chair in March 2021, and is the first woman to hold the post. Her first term has seen the launch of a number of new JCT products and services, including the Dispute Adjudication Board Documentation 2021, the 2021 Home Owner Contracts, Project Bank Account Documentation 2022, and most recently, the…

JCT Announces Next Edition of Contracts, ‘JCT 2024’ at Parliamentary Reception

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JCT announced that the next update to its suite of contracts will be the JCT 2024 Edition, at its annual Construction Industry Parliamentary Reception held at the House of Commons, on Friday, 16th June. The reception was an opportunity for JCT’s members and invited construction industry guests to gain an early insight into the core themes and main changes that will feature in JCT 2024, which is due to be published next year. The current edition of JCT contracts, JCT 2016, is the most widely…