Clash points

Article Abstract:

Two legal specialists give their opinions about how contractors and clients in construction projects handle the issue of subcontractors' costs. They acknowledge client suspicions concerning the management contractor system which was popular in the 1980s. Clients felt that management contractors, who were aware that sub-contracting costs would be re-imbursed by the client, were being over-generous to subcontractors. The system of construction management gives more pricing transparency but has other dangers. Other structures, including direct contracting, could hold the solution.

Real estate developers, Contracts

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Payment dispute

Article Abstract:

There are complex areas of interpretation associated with the provisions in the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 which relate to payment. If the relevant provisions are interpreted in an adverse manner by the courts, then the benefits which those calling for statutory intervention in the payment processes of the construction industry are anticipating may not materialize. However, it can also be argued that the payment provisions will eventually prove effective, once their scope and meaning has been ascertained by the courts.

Interpretation and construction, Construction law

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Cultural differences

Article Abstract:

Relations between main contractors and subcontractors in the UK construction industry are often very strained. Subcontractors' organisations believe that the best way to tackle this problem is through legal measures which would regularise payment provisions in subcontracts. However, it is also worth considering whether a cultural change may be more effective, especially as a contractual or statutory right to interest in cases of late payment would probably not really make any practical difference.

Management

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