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How to Navigate Amended Standard Construction Contracts with Confidence?

Name: How to Navigate Amended Standard Construction Contracts with Confidence?
Uploaded: 2023-06-09T03:18:35+00:00
Duration: 23 s
Channel: Cian Brennan
Description: Construction contracts like AIA and Australian Standard forms often get amended in ways that hide unfavorable terms. Cian Dillon Brennan warns that…

9 Jun 2023 · 0 min

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Construction contracts like AIA and Australian Standard forms often get amended in ways that hide unfavorable terms. Cian Dillon Brennan warns that familiar language masks hostile changes most firms miss. Always scrutinize every clause and get legal review before signing.

A lot of construction companies think, oh, I sign a standard contract, whether it be an AIA in America or Australian standards in Australia or whatever happens to be. They think they're signing a standard contract, but it's an amended standard contract. It's not the standard, it's been amended and now it's essentially hostile. So it just looks like what you think and you're able to understand it because it looks like what you're used to, but they've changed it. And so that is a big thing at the moment.