Contracts for Construction and Engineering Projects [Paperback]

1  Overview   Part 1 The engineer and the contract   2   The Evolution of the Role of the Engineer   3   Time, Cost and Quality - the Engineers Eternal Challenge   4   Risk and Construction Contracts   5   Managing Design Risk   6   Contracts for Design Services   7   Design life or service life: What is the difference?   8   Fit for Purpose or Due Skill and Care?   9   Design & Construct Contracts and Final Design Cost Risk   10   The Duty of Care in Design  Can Engineers Rely on Codes of Practice?   Part 2  The project and the contract   11 Standard Form Contracts   12 The impact of COVID-19 on construction contracts   13 Challenges in Achieving Successful Megaprojects   14 Sydney Opera House  Quality, Quality, Quality!   15 Managing Time, Cost and Quality - a Tale of Two Buildings   16 A Tale of Two Bridges: Issues Arising from Design and Construct Contracts   17 State of Tasmania v Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd   18 The Canterbury Earthquakes I   19 The Canterbury Earthquakes II   20 Construction Failures: Have We Learned the Lessons of History?   21 Lessons from failures  Quebec Bridge   22 Lessons from failures  West Gate Bridge   23 Is conventional insurancel³+