David Chappell

Throughout its many editions, The Architect in Practice has remained a leading textbook used in the education of architects. While the content of the …

Many building contract claims are ill-founded, often because the basic principles are misunderstood. This highly regarded book examines the legal basi…

The revised and updated edition of this classic book on the JCT Minor Works Building Contracts The JCT Minor Works Building Contracts 2016 offers a co…

Building Contract Dictionary provides a succinct, but authoritative reference to words, phrases and terms encountered in, and in connection with, buil…

Books about construction contracts tend to be dense and wordy, but what most architects, quantity surveyors, project managers, builders and employers …

Books about construction contracts tend to be dense and wordy, but what most architects, quantity surveyors, project managers, builders and employers …

Many building projects are the subject of claims – the assertion of a right, usually by the contractor, to an extension of the contract period or an a…

The Joint Contracts Tribunal Standard Form of Building Contract, JCT 98, is now a well established and widely used form. That is not to say, however, …

The Minor Works Building Contract is the most widely used of the JCT forms of contact, not only for simple, short contracts of moderate price, for whi…

The Joint Contracts Tribunal issued a new Design and Build Form in 2005, a successor to the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract with Contractor’s D…

Whenever a contractor undertakes work using one of the standard building contracts, however small the job, he will be involved in writing a good many …

The 2005 version of the JCT Intermediate Building Contract has introduced a very different looking contract format and a number of changes to contract…