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  title info:
    title: Understanding Construction Contracts
    sub title: Canadian and International Conventions
  name:
    name part: Surahyo, Akhtar
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XXI, 246 pages 5 illustrations, 2 illustrations in color) : online resource.
  abstract: This book provides an overall understanding of construction contracts, explaining a range of topics with in-depth examples, allowing engineers, site managers, architects, contractors, and other construction professionals in search of information on construction contracts to find it in one place. The volume further serves as a learning tool and a reference guide for students and instructors. Adopting a primarily Canadian perspective, the book provides references from two Standard Contract Documents CCDC (Canadian Construction Document Committee) and FIDIC (International Federation of Consulting Engineers) and briefly describes other major contract documents used within USA and UK construction industries. Offers a comprehensive overview of construction contracting topics including contract delivery methods, construction documents, insurance and bonds, construction payments, claims and dispute resolution procedures recommended by CCDC and FIDIC conditions of contract, and how to administer and close a contract; Addresses in detail the various types of delays: excusable and non-excusable delays, compensable and non-compensable delays, including acceleration; Various types of changes are defined for deeper understanding of the reader, including directed changes, constructive changes, concurrent delays, cardinal changes, differing site conditions and disruption; Provides a better understanding about the competitive bidding process, information on "Contract A" and "Contract B", qualified bids, responsive and non-responsive bids, and how to handle identical low and tied bids; Delivers insights on analyzing and managing construction risks based on the author's 30+ years' experience as a professional engineer; Adopts an easy and concise, step-by-step description of construction contracts, including work examples, tables and legal citations.
  table of contents: Construction Contracts and Law Basics -- Parties to the Contract -- Forms of Organizations -- Contract Delivery Methods -- Types of Contracts -- Selection of Appropriate Contract Strategy -- Construction Documents -- Bidding Procedures -- Construction Risk Analysis and Management -- Construction Insurance and Construction Bonds -- Construction Time -- Construction Payments / Cost -- Construction Quality -- Construction Safety -- Construction Claims -- Suspension and Termination of Construction -- Construction Disputes -- Construction Contract Administration.
  note: by Akhtar Surahyo.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Commercial law
  subject:
    topic: Construction Management
  subject:
    topic: Building Construction and Design
  subject:
    topic: Building Law
  subject:
    topic: Commercial Law
  classification: TH438
  classification: 624
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319666853
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record creation date: 171018
    record change date: 20240730210925.5
    record identifier: in00004008950