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Construction weekly highlights—17 April 2025

Published on: 17 April 2025

Table of contents

  • Standard form contracts
  • JCT announces plan to introduce new Target Cost Contract at Parliamentary Reception
  • Defects
  • Competing remedial schemes for defective work: Business, reputational and public interest factors made choosing the more expensive scheme reasonable (Southern Electricity v OCU Modus)
  • Consultants on construction projects
  • MJS Projects (March) Ltd v RPS Consulting Services Ltd [2025] EWHC 831 (TCC)
  • Judgment Alert: Vitsoe Ltd v Waugh Thistleton Architects Ltd [2025] EWHC 850 (TCC)
  • Planning
  • Planning and Infrastructure Bill—second reading
  • Procurement
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Article summary

This week's edition of Construction weekly highlights includes an announcement from the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) regarding its forthcoming Target Cost Contract, analysis of a case in which the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) considered whether a substation owner had been entitled to implement a more expensive scheme of remedial works (Southern Electricity v OCU Modus), a case in which the TCC dismissed a claim against a consultant on the basis that the defects in dispute arose from workmanship and not design (MJS Projects v RPS Consulting), and publication of the Office for National Statistics (ONS)’s construction output for February 2025

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