"Sustainable provisions in construction contracts"

30 September 2008

Jeremy Glover, in a paper given at the Lexis Nexis conference on Sustainable Development in the Construction Industry, considers whether it is possible to adopt sustainable and environmental concepts within the traditional construction contract framework. The paper looks at all three stages of a construction project, (design, construct and operate) and considers the extent to which the existing FIDIC, JCT and NEC contracts provide for sustainability. The paper gives as an example, details of the sustainable considerations that make up the design of the Equiano Centre, a proposed library and education centre in Waterloo, Sierra Leone.