Building Contract

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Contract particulars

Extracted3 to confirm

JCT Standard Building Contract With Quantities 2024 · uploaded 11 Feb

Contract sum
£12,840,000 excluding VAT
Date for completion
14 August 2027
Liquidated damages
£2,400 per week
Retention
3 per cent
Interim valuation date
25th of each month
Rectification period
12 months

Sectional completion not stated in the uploaded form. Confirm before the first certificate.

Particulars extracted.

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Preliminaries drafted.

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Everything downstream follows.

Instructions, valuations and certificates all reference the right clause numbers for the form in use.

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  • Particulars extracted, with anything unclear flagged rather than guessed
  • The signed PDF viewable in the project, next to the extracted fields
  • Sub-consultant and subcontractor agreements held in the same place

Contracts

Riverside Mills
DocumentTypeStatus
JCT SBC/Q 2024 · executedMain contractExtracted
Client appointment · RIBA 2024AppointmentExtracted
Structural engineer · sub scopeSub scopeUploaded
Supplemental agreement 01SupplementIn review

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  • No contract text redistributed by Avoice
  • Bespoke amendments and schedules read alongside the standard clauses
  • Amended clause numbering carried through to instructions and certificates

Amendments detected

4 found

Compared against the unamended standard form

Clause 4.9
Interim payment period shortened to 14 days
Clause 2.26
Relevant events list reduced, two items struck
Clause 4.20
Retention raised from 3% to 5% after practical completion
Schedule 8
Supplemental provisions not adopted

Avoice will use the amended figures. Confirm each one before the first interim certificate.

The dates and money the whole job hangs on

One set of figures, used by everything after it. Retention percentage, valuation dates, payment periods and damages are not administrative trivia. They decide when a certificate is late and how much a late one costs. Avoice holds them once and applies them everywhere.

  • Valuation and certificate dates generated for the whole contract period
  • Retention applied at the contract rate, before and after practical completion
  • Preliminaries drafted from the same particulars, so A20 and the contract agree

A20 Preliminaries · drafted

From contract

Section A20 · The contract / sub-contract

110
The contract: JCT Standard Building Contract With Quantities 2024
120
Completion: single date for completion, 14 August 2027
130
Liquidated damages: £2,400 per week or part thereof
140
Retention: 3 per cent

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