The Ice Conditions of Contract

Brain Eggleston CEng, FICE, FIStructE, FCIArb, is a chartered arbitrator with extensive UK and international experience. He also acts as an adjudicator and mediator and as an adviser to contractors and employers on contractual matters. He is well known as a seminar speaker on contract law and standard forms.

In a career spanning over 40 years he has worked on all sides of the construction industry, firstly as a bridge designer, then as a resident engineer and contracts administrator, and subsequently as a director of various building and civil engineering contracting companies. He is author of five other books for Blackwell Science, including the best selling Liquidated Damages and Extensions of Time , now in its Second Edition.

The ICE Conditions continues to be the dominant form of contract for civil engineering, despite the growing importance of the New Engineering Contract.
The Seventh Edition of the ICE Conditions, published in 1999, introduced a number of changes, including:

? incorporating some of the concepts of the Latham Report

? amending certain provisions of the Sixth Edition which had attracted criticism

? rectifying conspicuous omissions from the text of earlier editions of the contract

? correcting small errors and faults from the previous edition

? modernising certain provisions and terms

Brian Eggleston, whose previous book on the ICE Conditions was described as likely to become the authoritative reference source for the Sixth Edition , examines the contract clause by clause from a practical and legal viewpoint. There is extensive coverage of case law.

Written by an experienced civil engineer and recognized authority on construction contracts, this book is an essential guide.

The ICE Conditions continues to be the dominant form of contract for civil engineering, despite the growing importance of the New Engineering Contract.

Preface; Notes on the text; Introduction; Definitions, interpretation and notices; The engineer and engineer s representative; Assignment and subcontracting; Contract documents; Contractor s obligations/responsibilities for design and construction; Form of Agreement and performance security; Site conditions and sufficiency of tender; Instructions and impossibility; Programmes and methods of construction; Supervision, setting-out and safety; Care of the works and insurances; Statutes, street works, facilities and fossils; Materials and workmanship; Suspension of work; Possession of the site, commencement and rate of progress; Extensions of time and liquidated damages for delay; Completion; Outstanding works and defects; Variations; Claims and additional payments; Property and materials; Measurement of the works; Provisional sums and prime cost items; Nominated subcontractors; Certificates and payments; Defaults and determination; Settlement of disputes; Miscellaneous provisions; Table of cases; Index