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Procurement and Contracts

Communique September 2024

September 19, 2024

Editor

Communique July 2024

July 28, 2024

Michael Davis

Communique October 2022

August 15, 2023

Peter Marshall

NZIA/NZACS Risk Management and PI Webinars 2022, 2023

August 3, 2023

Observation

August 3, 2023

Covid or Supply-Chain Costs and Delays

August 3, 2023

Contract Administration versus Contract Management

August 3, 2023

BIM Risks

September 22, 2022

Observation

November 15, 2021

Covid or Supply-Chain Costs and Delays

September 15, 2021

Proprietary Systems

February 17, 2021

When contract terms shift the risks and responsibilities

February 16, 2021

Completion Statements

February 16, 2021

Covid19 project impacts

February 15, 2021

Completion Statements by Architect

August 29, 2019

Completion Certificates by the Architect

January 31, 2018

Responding to Payment Claims

October 31, 2017

Understanding Design Obligations:  The Contractor’s Duties

August 31, 2017

Risk Management and Environmental Issues

January 31, 2017

Disputes and Duties in Contract and in Tort Arising out of Contract Administration.

January 31, 2017

Can a contractor (or Sub-contractor) Make a Claim Against an Architect?

November 1, 2016

On-Selling the Project;  Selling Out on the Architect.

October 16, 2016

Builders Deposit Before Starting Work

October 1, 2014

RBW and LBPs (Not Forgetting AOP!)

September 30, 2011

Practical Completion Certificates – A Repeat Caution-

October 4, 2005

Guarantees -"Are They Worth the Paper They are Written on?"

April 30, 1998

Design/Build Situations

October 31, 1997