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Chapter overview
Once the WHY, WHO, WHAT, WHEN and HOW aspects have been considered,
they need to be collated with other documents to form professional services
contracts (appointments) and/or Building Contracts. This chapter considers the
commonly used contracts and some of the additional factors that must be taken
into account if these various contracts are to be compatible on a particular project.
As well as establishing methods for dealing with day-to-day issues on a project,
the steps set out in Chapters 6 to 9 produce documents suitable for binding into
contractual documents. In summary, at the end of the WHY, WHO, WHAT, WHEN
and HOW stages, the following aspects will have been considered and agreed:
• the project brief
• the required project roles
• the timing of contractor involvement
• the allocation of roles to specific parties (Project Roles Table)
• contractual relationships (Contractual Tree)
•a Design Responsibility Matrix incorporating Information Exchanges,
Multidisciplinary Schedules of Services and the fees associated with
these documents
•the Project Programme and corresponding Design and Construction
Programmes, and
• project protocols, as set out in the Project Execution Plan.
It is possible for the preparation of the documents to have occurred in a collaborative
manner (using a workshop, for example), and it is also feasible that, as each step
has progressed, members of the project team will have been incrementally
appointed and able to contribute to the appointment of other members of the
team. Whatever the facts of the specific case, the steps set out in Chapters 6 to 9
have been conceived to ensure that the appointment of the various parties in the
project team is as straightforward as possible.
In this chapter, the interface of the completed tools with commonly available
professional services contracts and Building Contracts is considered. The pros
and cons of collaborative contracts that seek to bind the client, design team and
contractor together in a more cohesive way are also set out.
In many circumstances, the forms of professional services contract and Building
Contract to be used on a project or by a client or practice will already have
been determined.
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