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Issues relating to contract administrator's instruction

Contract Administrator is an employer’s agent who is engaged primarily to ensure that the works are executed effectively and economically but he is not a party to a construction contract and has no authority to instruct contractor. Thus, express provisions are included in the contract to give contra...

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Main Author: Khiyon, Noor Azeyah
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2011
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TH Building construction
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spelling my.utm.367842018-05-27T08:14:22Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/36784/ Issues relating to contract administrator's instruction Khiyon, Noor Azeyah TH Building construction Contract Administrator is an employer’s agent who is engaged primarily to ensure that the works are executed effectively and economically but he is not a party to a construction contract and has no authority to instruct contractor. Thus, express provisions are included in the contract to give contract administrator power to issue instructions to contractor. Contract administrator’s instruction is very important in a construction contract and due to its importance, any issues relating to the instructions may lead to many disputes in construction contract. Therefore, this research seeks to identify issues that commonly arise relating to contract administrator’s instructions. An analysis of four selected legal cases is conducted to review the facts and the decision of the courts on the matters of contract administrator’s instructions. From the analysis, it is found that the issues that commonly arise relating to contract administrator’s instructions are non issuance of instructions, incomplete instructions, instructions are outside the scope provided by the contract and informal instructions. Therefore, parties in a construction contract must be aware of these issues in order to reduce or eliminate the effects that might occur due to it. 2011 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/36784/1/NoorAzeyahKhiyonMFAB2011.pdf Khiyon, Noor Azeyah (2011) Issues relating to contract administrator's instruction. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Built Environment. http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:74154?queryType=vitalDismax&query=Issues+relating+to+contract+administrator%27s+instruction&public=true
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Khiyon, Noor Azeyah
Issues relating to contract administrator's instruction
description Contract Administrator is an employer’s agent who is engaged primarily to ensure that the works are executed effectively and economically but he is not a party to a construction contract and has no authority to instruct contractor. Thus, express provisions are included in the contract to give contract administrator power to issue instructions to contractor. Contract administrator’s instruction is very important in a construction contract and due to its importance, any issues relating to the instructions may lead to many disputes in construction contract. Therefore, this research seeks to identify issues that commonly arise relating to contract administrator’s instructions. An analysis of four selected legal cases is conducted to review the facts and the decision of the courts on the matters of contract administrator’s instructions. From the analysis, it is found that the issues that commonly arise relating to contract administrator’s instructions are non issuance of instructions, incomplete instructions, instructions are outside the scope provided by the contract and informal instructions. Therefore, parties in a construction contract must be aware of these issues in order to reduce or eliminate the effects that might occur due to it.
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title Issues relating to contract administrator's instruction
title_short Issues relating to contract administrator's instruction
title_full Issues relating to contract administrator's instruction
title_fullStr Issues relating to contract administrator's instruction
title_full_unstemmed Issues relating to contract administrator's instruction
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publishDate 2011
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/36784/1/NoorAzeyahKhiyonMFAB2011.pdf
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