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JCT 2011 Standard Building Contract Without Quantities (SBC/XQ)

Appropriate:

• For larger works designed and/or detailed by or on behalf of the Employer, where detailed contract provisions are necessary and the Employer is to provide the Contractor with drawings
• With either a specification or work schedules to define adequately the scope and quality of the work and where the degree of complexity is not such as to require bills of quantities
• Where an Architect/Contract Administrator and Quantity Surveyor are to administer the conditions

Can be used:

• Where the Contractor is to design discrete part(s) of the works (Contractor's Designed Portion)
• Where the works are to be carried out in sections
• By both private and local authority employers.

SBC 2011: Named Specialist Update

JCT's Named Specialist Update applies to all versions of the Standard Building Contract 2011 (With Quantities, Without Quantities, and With Approximate Quantities) to include provision for Named Specialists.

The optional provisions enable the employer, by appropriate entry in the Contract Particulars, to name individual specialists as domestic sub-contractors for identified parts of the works.

The modifications included in the Named Specialist Update can be incorporated in two ways, either by amending the contract document itself, or by attaching the update to the contract and inserting a provision within the Articles referring to it.

• Key features:Depending on the entry selected, the right may be limited to specialists pre-named in the Contract Documents (or their replacements), or, for provisional sum work, may also extend to post-naming
• The Contractor has a right of reasonable objection in the case of the naming of any replacement specialist, or if post-naming applies
• There are rights to both an extension of time for delays and to any loss or expense arising if the Contractor notifies their objection, or if a named specialist becomes insolvent.

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