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Why use 50,000 words
when 500 will do?
11 March 2020
What’s wrong with contracts?
0 10000 20000 30000
JCT DB 2016
CIOB Complex
ACA PPC 2000
NEC4 Core
Schedules etc
Core Conditions
What’s wrong with contracts?
© NBS National Construction Contracts and Law Report 2018
What’s wrong with contracts?
Do we need 50,000 words?
Complex and long
Paper-based
Adversarial
Simplify content, add visuals
Digital, hubs not suites
Collaborative, management tool
Simplify content
Simplify
content:
no
words?
Simplify: size isn’t everything
Simplify: add visuals
© 500 Words Ltd 2019
Colour-coded swim-lanes
Chronological order
Easy to complete
Simplify:
add
visuals
© Federation of Master Builders Ltd 2019
Key data in table on p1
Useful subheadings
Conversational style
Editable pdf
Digitise: contracts as tools
Digitise: contracts as tools
Rank Overall Dispute Cause
1 Owner/ Contractor/ Subcontractor failing to understand
and/or comply with its contractual obligations
2 Errors and/or omissions in the contract document
3 Failure to properly administer the contract
Digitise: contracts as tools
If 99% projects do not
end in legal disputes,
why do we write
contracts to suit the 1%
that do?
Digitise: contracts as tools
Digitise: contracts as tools
Collaborate: trust not terms
Collaborate: trust not
terms
Mutual processes
Limits on liability (time/money)
Output-based objective performance
Fair risk sharing and fair rewards
Flexible approach to the unexpected
Collaborate: trust not terms
Prototype timeline © Sarah Fox
Collaborate: trust not terms
Delivery diagram © Stefania Passera. Used with permission
Collaborate: trust not terms
You Promise To:
Read your contracts
Simplify terms
Add visuals and flowcharts
Go digital (sign before you start)
Develop mutual processes
Create trust (never game the contract)
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Why use 50000 words when 500 will do? (March 2020)

Editor's Notes

  1. Paper-based
  2. “The creation and negotiation of many building contracts is based on the premise that the other party is the opposition and cannot be trusted…” David Mosey
  3. Your contract should record your agreement. Often lawyers and others with lots of experience in contracts, see risks and issues which might arise and add clauses to your contract to try and resolve those aspects. They are acting like your mum and protecting you from what might harm you. The focus is on safeguarding your interests and legal enforcement (ie only one of the many functions of a contract!) An answer? Write it plainly and clearly and stop when you have enough.
  4. Animate so + NRCC come in on mouse click
  5. Users prefer contracts with visual elements whether it is icons, tables, charts or contract patterns like those promoted by the IACMM
  6. Paper-based, wet-signed No-one cares about the contract – only the outputs!
  7. Focused on legal