Guide to Using the RIBA Professional Services Contracts 2018 - Other - Page 11
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Guide to RIBA Professional Services Contracts 2018
Similarly, the Code of Practice for RIBA Chartered Practices states:
2.2 Chartered Practices should ensure that their terms of appointment, the scope
of their work and the essential project requirements are clear and recorded in
writing.
2.3 Chartered Practices should explain to their clients the implications of any
conditions of engagement and how their fees are to be calculated and charged.
2.4 Chartered Practices should maintain appropriate records throughout their
engagement. They should keep their clients informed of the progress of a project
and of the key decisions made on the client’s behalf.
1.3 Summary of key changes to the RIBA Agreements 2010
(2012 revision)
The RIBA Agreements 2010 (2012 revision) have been completely updated and
revised by bringing them up to date with current best practice and legislation as well
as overhauling the format to be compatible with the RIBA Building Contracts.
One single document
Each of the RIBA Professional Services Contracts 2018 has been updated into a
single document divided into four main parts incorporating the Contract Details, the
Agreement, the Contract Conditions and a Schedule of Services, together with a
Contract Checklist to consider before signing the Contract.
The Consumer Rights Act 2015
The RIBA Domestic Professional Services Contract 2018 continues to be for use
wholly as an agreement with a consumer client, whereas the Standard and Concise
PSCs would not be fully compliant with the Consumer Act without amendments to
the terms and conditions.
Reasonable skill and care
The obligation for the Architect/Consultant to exercise ‘reasonable skill, care and
diligence’ has been amended to ‘… reasonable skill, care and diligence to be
expected from an Architect/Consultant experienced in the provision of such services
for projects of similar size, nature and complexity to the Services’ to accord with the
standard expected from Common Law and Section 13 of the Supply of Goods and
Services Act 1982.
Fully compliant with the CDM Regulations 2015
The Contracts have been fully updated to comply with the CDM Regulations 2015.
For legal reasons, the Principal Designer should be appointed under a separate and
distinct PSC, for which the RIBA Principal Designer Professional Services Contract
2018 has been produced. This can be used on all forms of Contract but, where the
Architect/Consultant is to be appointed as Principal Designer on a domestic project,
a Principal Designer appointment has been incorporated into the RIBA Domestic
Professional Services Contract 2018 to simplify the appointment process to ensure
that the lay client fully understands, and meets, their obligations under the CDM
Regulations 2015.
Other Client Appointments
Clarification of the need for the Client to appoint other consultants, in addition to the
services provided under this Contract, has been improved and simplified to give the
Client a better understanding of the requirement.
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