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Why Special Conditions beat the standard form
Plain-English guides for the people who sign the contract: builders, architects and owner-builders. What the off-the-shelf ABIC contract leaves you exposed to, and how the right Special Conditions fix it.
ABIC SW 2018 H · New South Wales
Monthly Progress Payments vs Stage Payments
Why so many NSW residential builders and architects move the ABIC SW 2018 H contract off its stage payment schedule and onto monthly progress claims.
Read the guideABIC SW 2018 H · New South Wales
Force Majeure in Building Contracts
The events no one can control (disasters, pandemics, war, government action), and why the standard ABIC form leaves builders and owners to argue about them after the fact.
Read the guideABIC SW 2018 H · New South Wales
Building Material Cost Increases and Supply Chain Risk
When global supply shocks send material prices up mid-project, who wears the cost, and how do you share genuine increases without opening the door to open-ended price rises?
Read the guideABIC CP-2014 C · NSW & WA
Cost-Plus Residential Building Contracts
Why a well-understood commercial cost-plus contract cannot simply be used, unamended, on a NSW or WA home, and how targeted Special Conditions make it compliant.
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