Chanel Turner, Author at Building Disputes Tribunal

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Adjudication: calculating time over the Christmas period 2019-2020

by Chanel Turner | Nov 27, 2019 | Adjudication, non-working days, working days

Are you involved in an adjudication which is current over the Christmas period? Just a reminder that the non-working days under the Construction Contracts Act 2002 run from 24 December 2019 to 5 January 2020 inclusive. This means, Monday 23 December 2019 is the last...

The builder’s right to fix

by Chanel Turner | Nov 18, 2019 | Adjudication, Construction

Introduction When a dispute over defective building work turns ugly, the owner is sometimes tempted to refuse the builder the opportunity of returning to rectify the defects. There are risks in this course. This update considers a recent NSW Supreme Court decision...

The ‘collaborative’ future of construction and infrastructure procurement

by Chanel Turner | Nov 15, 2019 | BuildLaw, Construction

Framework Contracting, that is well planned from the outset, can be an effective tool to deliver an entire programme of infrastructure with benefits for all sides. While it is simply one way to address resource constraints and the need for fair apportionment of risk...

Case In-Brief: Hybrid contracts and the payment provisions of the Construction Act

by Chanel Turner | Nov 14, 2019 | Adjudication, Construction

The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1998 (the Act) applies to “construction operations”. Where a contract relates to both “construction operations” and non-construction operations, the question arises of how payment mechanisms apply to construction...

BuildLaw Issue 37

by Chanel Turner | Nov 1, 2019 | BuildLaw

October 2019 In this issue, we look at a NSW Supreme Court decision in White Constructions Pty Ltd v PBS Holdings Pty Ltd [2019] which found that the claimant, despite using an expert programmer, failed to sufficiently prove that a delay by the respondent caused delay...

BuildLaw Issue 28

by Chanel Turner | Jun 1, 2017 | Building, BuildLaw

June 2017 In this issue we feature natural justice and adjudications. We also look at representative defect claims and exclusion clauses, further amendments to the Arbitration Act, and the recent New Zealand Court of Appeals decisions in Ebert Construction v Sansom...