BLAR13035  Building Contract Administration

Offered from Winter 2002

The course covers the administration of construction contracts including: control of extensions of time, variation, site instructions; chain of responsibilities; reporting and quality assurance; management of sub contractors and suppliers;and head contract management. This course also develops an understanding of contract management including: specification and the preparation of building contracts; the assessment of tenderers and tender negotiation; project planning; worker induction; documentation control and records management; progress reporting; contract inspections; management of variations, extensions of time, breaches of contract; liquidation damages and reporting; and project commissioning and defects liability period activities and responsibilities improvement mechanisms and processes.