Contract Drafting for Residential Builders / Contractors
Construct Law Group can assist with drafting or reviewing domestic building contracts in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria including any client required or project necessary special conditions.
This includes drafting the following suite of contracts for builders to suit their business needs:
- Domestic/Residential Preliminary Agreements suitable for pre-contract investigations;
- Domestic/Residential Head Contracts – compliant with all statutory domestic building contract requirements
- Domestic/Residential Construction Management Agreement Suite of contracts including a construction management head contract compliant with all statutory domestic building contract requirements and the supporting trade contract compliant with other relevant statutory requirements.
We can also assist builders in the preparation or review of contract related documents such as quotes/proposals/tenders, progress claims, variations, extensions of time claims, delay cost claims and advising and drafting of suspension and termination notices.
Our lawyers have experience in drafting entire suites of contract documents that are compliant with Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991 (Qld), the Home Building Act 1989 (NSW) and the, Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995 (Vic).
By way of example, we have drafted contract suites for domestic work across each of the above jurisdictions for a number of our builder client’s who carry out insurance repair work along the east coast of Australia.
Assisting Homeowners
We can assist homeowners with reviewing their domestic building contract prior to signing and will provide a written advice for a fixed fee. To obtain your fixed fee package for review of your domestic building contract, please complete this form.
Contract Administration
We also offer assistance to clients to administer their contracts to ensure compliance with statutory and contractual obligations and help to avoid contractual disputes.
We have extensive experience in providing advice to both contractors and homeowners on their rights and obligations under the common industry forms of domestic building contracts, including:
- Housing Industry Association (HIA)
- Master Builders (MB)
- Regulator drafted domestic building contracts such as the Queensland Building and Construction Commission, Fair Trading NSW and Consumer Affairs Victoria
- Swimming Pool & Spa Association (SPASA)
- Australian Building Industry Contracts (ABIC)
