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Now in its 6th edition,
Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts remains the foremost guide to issues arising in the course of construction, with robustly-updated content and several new chapters on such topics as standard form provisions for recovery of loss or expense, and Chinese and Peruvian construction law.
List of contents
1. Introduction and terminology 2. The risk of development, 3. Project procurement, 4. Standard form provisions for time, 5. Standard form provisions for money, 6. Notices, claims and early warnings, 7. Extensions of time and time at large, 8. Planning and programming, 9. Presentation and approval of programmes, 10. Revising, updating, monitoring and reporting, 11. Project control, 12. Mitigation, recovery and acceleration, 13. Variation and change, 14. Construction records, 15. Cause and effect, 16. Forensic programme analysis, 17. Float and time contingencies, 18. Disruption to progress and lost productivity, 19. Concurrency, parallelism and pacing, 20. Total time, total loss and global Claim, 21. Apportionment, 22. Damages, 23. Construction delay insurance, 24. Negotiation and settlement of claims, 25. Dispute resolution, 26. An introduction to adjudication in the United Kingdom, 27. An introduction to dispute boards, 28. Mandatory laws in international construction contracts, 29. An introduction to Chinese construction law, 30. An introduction to Nordic construction law, 31. An introduction to Peruvian construction law, 32. An introduction to constrution law in Singapore and Malaysia, Appendix 1: Glossary of terms and definitions, Appendix 2: Types of document
About the author
Andrew Burr is an arbitrator, adjudicator and leading construction law barrister. He specialises in property-related arbitration, adjudication and mediation work, along with construction and technology matters. Andrew is Legal Counsel at Synthesis Chambers Solicitors Ltd, and an affiliated foreign lawyer with Varul (Vilnius, Lithuania). He is a listed arbitrator in multiple jurisdictions and has sat on the ICC’s advisory committee for the revision of its Dispute Board Rules. Andrew also undertakes extensive editorial work on the Construction Law Journal.
Summary
Now in its 6th edition, Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts remains the foremost guide to issues arising in the course of construction, with robustly-updated content and several new chapters on such topics as standard form provisions for recovery of loss or expense, and Chinese and Peruvian construction law.
