The Queensland Government has announced the next stage of reforms to the Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Act (Qld) 2017 (BIF Act) will commence on 17 December this year. What are the changes? These ‘Chapter 3’ changes will significantly change the previous regime under the Building and Construction Industry Payments Act 2004 (Qld) (BCIPA).
Is it back to the future or a brave new world with the latest changes to the security of payment regime in NSW? What’s happened? Earlier this year, NSW Fair Trading released a consultation paper on proposed draft changes to the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW) (SOP Act) open for
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a model based approach and process for creating and managing information on building and infrastructure projects. The model gives architecture, engineering and construction professionals the insight and tools to plan, design, construct and manage buildings and infrastructure. There are different dimensions to a BIM system. These dimensions refers to the
Under the building bond and inspection scheme (the Scheme) developers will need to lodge a building bond that is 2% of the contract price. The developer will need to lodge the bond to the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation (the Secretary). Unfortunately, this has created an incentive for developers to undervalue the contract price
What are latent conditions? Latent conditions in a construction project refer to those conditions which cannot be identified prior to entering into a contract. Usually this means the conditions that cannot be identified by review of the relevant project documentation, in other testing or investigations, or during a routine inspection prior to undertaking works. Latent
Change can appear inevitable, but when it comes to variation claims on a construction project, it can also be costly and confusing for all parties, including contractors, owners and financiers. Morrissey Law + Advisory have prepared an insight into what actually constitutes a variation and the way in which variation claims may be substantiated. What
The NSW Government has proposed a number of significant changes to the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW) (SOP Act) through a bill[1] publicly released on 22 August 2018. There are proposed reforms to the SOP Act and also the associated regulations[2]. In this article we have identified 10 key proposed
NSW Government to increase penalties for developers failing to comply with the developer defect bond obligations Developer defect bonds have only been required for 7 months, however, already changes to the law and strengthening their penalties is being discussed. The NSW Government introduced the Strata Schemes Management Amendment (Building Defect Schemes) Bill 2018 (NSW) on
The recent amendments to the Strata Scheme Management Act 2015 (NSW) (the Act) may have significant impacts to builders, developers and owner corporations. The Act replaced the Strata Scheme Management Act 1996 and applies where a developer and a builder has entered into a contract from 1 January 2018. When does the Act apply? The
As part of the Federal Government’s reforms to Australia’s insolvency laws under the National Innovation Science Agenda (Agenda) to promote entrepreneurship and encourage innovation, a new ipso facto stay regime became applicable to contracts from 1 July 2018. A link to our previous article on this topic can be found here. The ipso facto regime