Spon's Landscape Contract Handbook: A guide to good practice and procedures in the management of lump sum landscape contracts

by Clamp; Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780419183006
• ISBN10: 0419183000
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-11-01
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

This indispensable manual for landscape work covers the documentation and management of landscape contracts. It is written for all those involved in the landscape industry.

Table of Contents

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

Acknowledegments

The contract documents

Common arrangement (CCPI)

The types of contract

The contract drawings

The contract specification

Landscape contract drawings

Graphic symbols

Scope

Size and content

Layout drawings

Component and assembly drawings

Curves

Setting out

Levels

Landscape contract specification

Clause selection

Structure and phraseology

Materials

Workmanship

Protection

Standard specifications

Watering

Landscape quantities

Measurement of landscape work on with- and without-quantities projects

Schedules

Bills of Quantities

Landscape lump sum contract conditions

The need for a Standard Form

The JCLI Standard Form of Agreement for Landscape Works

Arbitration

The conditions

Use of the Form in Scotland

The JCT Intermediate Form IFC 84

The JCT Form for Minor Building Works (MW80)

The JCT Form for Building Works (JCT80)

The general conditions of Government Contracts for Building and Civil Engineering (GC Wks 1 & 2 Edn 1991)

The Association of Consulting Architects (ACA 84)

The Architects and Surveyors Institute Forms

The Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) Form 6th Edn 1991

Design and build

Management contracts

Landscape subcontracts

Direct subcontracts - consecutive

Direct subcontracts - concurrent

Domestic subcontracts - concurrent

Listed subcontractors

Nominated subcontractors on lump sum building contracts

Subcontracts executed under the ICE Form of Contract

Plant supplies

Choosing the appropriate plant - using the JCLI plant lists

JLCPS/CPSE Standard Form of Tender

JCT Form of Tender for nominated suppliers

Plant handling

Introduction

Handling within the nursery

Plants in transit from the nursery to site

Transport of plants

Plant handling after delivery to site

Planting seasons

Temporary storage

Transporting to final location

Ground preparation

Planting

Aftercare

Landscape contract administration

The landscape architect's adminsitrative duties

The contractor's obligations

The landscape architect's dutites

Obligatory duties (always necessary)

Obligatory duties (if they arise)

Optional duties (if the landscape architect so decides)

Quality assurance on site

Landscape maintenance

Introduction

Tree maintenance

Shrub maintenance

Grass maintenance

Irrigation

Planned maintenance

Maintenance costs

Time

Budgeting

Maintenance contracts

Indoor planting

Introduction

Light requirements

Acclimization

Temperature requirements

Irrigation

Soil

Feeding

Maintenance

Pests and diseases

Appendices

Summaries of landscape British Standards

Landscape subcontract

JCLI Standard Form of Agreement for Landscape Works

JCLI Supplement to the JCT Intermediate Form IFC 84

JLCPS General Conditions, Specifications and Schedules of Quantity for the Supply and Delivery of Plants

JCT Standard Form of Tender by Nominated Supplier (Tender TNS/1)

NJCC Code of Procedure for Single-stage Selective Tendering

Further reading

Index

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