Brief introduction to contracts for infrastructure

Deciding on the best contract for the particular requirements of an infrastructure project will always be a difficult decision. Such contracts must provide for a wide variety of project data (price, time, quality requirements) and numerous legal issues. These include the contractual issues relating to complexities of funding and risk on large-scale infrastructure projects.

This section gives an introduction to relevant infrastructure contracts. It covers the following:

• NEC4
• JCT
• FIDIC
• IChemE and
• ICC.

This section is maintained by Peter Barnes of Blue Sky ADR Ltd.

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