About the Book
There are probably 20-25 subcontracts entered into for every major building contract. However, despite this, there are relatively few books that discuss the problems particular to the subcontract relationship between main contracts and their subcontractors.
This book examines the main issues that lead to disputes between contractors and subcontractors, identifies relevant law, including decisions of the courts, and also provides a view as to how other issues might be decided.
The second edition has been extensively revised to cover all the 2005 JCT subcontracts and works contracts, and recent case law. Four new chapters have been added on subcontractors selected by thrid parties; organisation of the subcontract; sub-subcontracts; and works contracts under management contracting arrangements.
It draws on the author's extensive experience of managing building subcontracts, as well as his involvement in handling over 130 adjudications.
The Law and Management of Building Subcontracts examines the main issues that lead to disputes between contractors and subcontractors, identifies relevant law, including decisions of the courts, and provides a view of how other issues might be decided.
It considers general issues of subcontracting and relates these to the specific terms of the subcontract SBCSub, for use with the JCT Standard Building Contract, and to similar forms for use on projects of differing size and complexity.
The second edition has been extensively revised to cover the 2005 JCT Subcontracts and recent case law. It features four new chapters on:
Subcontractors selected by a third party
Organisation and management of the subcontract
Sub-subcontracts
Works contracts under management contracting arrangements
The book draws on the author's extensive experience of managing building subcontracts, as well as his involvement in handling disputes between subcontractors and contractors.
From a review of the first edition
'A few books on sub-contracting do exist but there is no] other comprehensive work on the management and law of sub-contracts. The author, whose experience in the industry is both wide ranging and impressive, is exceptionally well place to write it.'
- Construction Law Journal
The Author
John McGuinness BSc, MSc, FCIOB started his career as an articled pupil with John Laing and was subsequently sponsored for a building degree at Aston University. He worked for the Laing organisation for over twenty-five years in site management roles and was involved with a number of large, prestigious projects including: The Falkland Islands Airport, The New British Library and No 1 Poultry office building. In 1992-4 he took a part-time masters degree course in construction law and arbitration at King's College, London, where he won a prize for his dissertation on the giving of instructions under building contracts. He combined his practical experience of subcontract management with his construction law knowledge to win a Hudson prize, awarded by the Society of Construction Law, for a paper on subcontract arrangements. In 1997 he won the Hudson prize again for a paper on letters of intent.
John McGuinness joined the Knowles Organisation in 1997 as a senior consultant, since when he has managed in excess of 150 adjudications. These have frequently been disputes arising out of subcontracts. It is this width of experience that has inspired this book.
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