Understand and increase your confidence working with the favourite contract of developers and gain insight into identifying risk and opportunities by taking our JCT Design and Build Contract 2016 Practical Training.
This course will provide in-depth knowledge on compliance with the detailed provisions of the contract, with key emphasis on payment, notices, change management, extension of time and loss and expense.
Course details
The course will allow you to:
- Identify and manage key administrative procedures under the contract
- Appreciate the importance of notices and how to manage them
- Manage and value change
- Recognise contractual risks and opportunities
- Understand how extensions of time and loss and expense are considered and awarded
- Recognise common pitfalls under design and build contracts and how to avoid them
Key areas of this course include:
- Introduction to the JCT
- Key changes between JCT 2011 and JCT 2016
- The structure of the contract
- Definitions and interpretations – notices and communications
- Carrying out the Works – contractor’s obligations, discrepancies and divergences, liquidated damages and delay (Relevant Events)
- Control of the Works – employer’s instructions
- Payment – loss and expense recovery (Relevant Matters)
- Change rules and management
- Performance bonds, guarantees and collateral warranties
- Dispute resolution


