The course content addresses the following topics:
- Formation and scope of contracts including the essential requirements for
- valid contracts
- Principles in South African law relating to the formation and execution of
- construction contracts
- Taking governance and legislative requirements into account in the design
- of construction procurement and contract strategies
- Procurement and risk allocation in construction contracts
- Tendering and price formation in construction contracts
- Standard form construction contracts and how contracting works under
- different standard form contracts (e.g. FIDIC, GCC, JBCC and NEC)
- Performance security in contracts including insurance and bonding in the
- engineering and construction industry
- Time and delay in construction contracts
- Payment and claims management
- Professionalism and liability in the construction context
- Breach and remedies for breach of contract
- Adversarial and non-adversarial dispute resolution
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