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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)

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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

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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…

JCT Releases Contract Administration Model Forms For Minor Works

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JCT has added to its range of contract administration model forms with the launch of a new product specifically for use with the Minor Works family of building contracts, MW and MWD 2016 Admin – Contract Administration Model Forms. The Contract Administration Model Forms first launched in March with the release of the products for use with the JCT Home Owner contracts. This latest release is for use specifically on projects using the 2016 edition of either the JCT Minor Works Building Contract (MW) or…

Wraxall Yard, Dorest

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A restoration and retrofit project, on an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in West Dorset, provides holiday accommodation and facilities specifically for people living with disabilities. The Wraxall Yard project used a JCT Standard Building Contract. Wraxall Yard is a project developed by Clementine Blakemore Architects for client, Wraxall Yard CIC. It is a restoration and retrofit scheme which upgraded a site of derelict farm and agricultural buildings to provide bespoke, supported, self-catered holiday facilities for local people living with disabilities. The buildings are located…

JCT Launches Contract Administration Forms for Minor Works and Home Owner Contracts

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JCT announced the release of a new series of contract administration model forms for use with the JCT Home Owner and Minor Works Building Contract families. The new products available are: MW and MWD 2016 Admin Contract Administration Model Forms For use with the Minor Works Building Contract 2016 (MW 2016) and Minor Works Building Contract with contractor’s design 2016 (MWD 2016)  HO/B 2021 Admin Contract Administration Model Forms For use with the Building contract for a home owner/occupier who has not appointed a consultant…

JCT Interviews…Euan Geddes

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JCT INTERVIEWS…EUAN GEDDES 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. Euan Geddes Member, JCT Council and Board…