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Course Overview

Learn how to effectively administer your contracts and related documentation, comply with the requirements of the Home Building Act, use legal tactics to reduce risks and maximise income, and ultimately protect your business! This course is a must for Builders, Renovators, Developers, Contractors, Project Managers, Contract Administrators, Architects, Business Partners.
12 CPD Points - Available under the New Continuing Professional Development System.

Course Details - 12 CPD points

PART A - THE BASIC PRICIPLES OF CONTRACT LAW

Brief Summary of our Legal System  
1. The basic components of a contract:
  • What is a Contract?
  • Offer
  • Acceptance
  • Consideration
  • Contract Law & Legislation
Other factors affecting a contract after it is made:
  • Intention to create legal relations
  • Legal capacity
  • Mistake
  • Undue Influence
  • Duress
  • Misrepresentation
  • Unconscionable Conduct
  • Privity to contract
  • Contracts illegal by statute
Agency Law  
Discussion Questions  
2. Terms of the Contract:
  • Express Terms
  • Implied Terms
Workshop Exercise - Contract Formation  
3. Performance and Breach:
  • Performance
  • Breach
4. Termination:
  • Performance
  • Terms of the Contract
  • Mutual Termination
  • Common Law
  • Repudiation
  • Legislation
  • Frustration
5. Damages:
  • General Rules
  • Cost of Rectification
  • Difference in Value
  • Mitigation
6. Other Remedies:
  • Specific Performance
  • Injunction
7. Restitution:
  • Unjust Enrichment
  • Quantum Meruit

PART B - CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS

1. Fixed-Sum & Cost-Plus Contracts  
2. Clauses Common in Construction Contracts:
  • Particulars of contract
  • Progress Stages
  • Excluded items
  • Signing the contract
  • Primary Obligations
  • Preliminary matters
  • Security account
  • Accuracy of contract documents
  • Commencement of the works
  • Delays & extensions of time
  • Site possession & access
  • Hidden site conditions
  • Other costs
  • Progress payments
  • Interest on late payments
  • Variations
  • Materials supplied by the owner
  • Prime costs/ Provisional sums
  • Practical completion
  • Defects Liability period
  • Liquidated damages
  • Charge on the site
  • Suspension of the works
  • Termination
  • Debt collection costs
  • Despute resolution

PART C - SUMMARY OF THE HOME BUILDING ACT

1. Definition of ‘Residential Building Work’  
2. Licensing  
3. Contract requirements:
  • Checklist
  • Mandatory Conditions
  • Consumer information brochure
  • Copy of the contract
  • Cooling-off rights
  • Exemptions from the contract requirements
  • Maximum deposits
4. Statatory Warranties  
5. Home Warranty Insurance  
6. Performing work for an Owner Builder  
7. Advertising & Displaying signs  
8. Resolving Building Disputes & Building claims  

Course Schedule & Bookings - 12 CPD

The Home Building Contracts course can be booked by:

  • Downloading the Course Booking Form below, complete it, and
    - faxing it back to (02) 8303 0533 or
    - posting it to The Building Centre, Suite 209/ 410, Elizabeth st. Surry Hills 2010
  • Calling us on 1300 884 876 Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm (AEST)
  • Book online for the course below:
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All prices include GST, Course Material, Coffee/Tea and Lunch.

Dates and Venues Duration Times Price Status
May 29th, 2010 [Sat]
Parramatta Workers Club
1 day 8:30am-3:00pm $349.00
per person
Seats Available
or
 

Venue Locations

Parramatta Workers Club - view Location Map
163-165 George street, Parramatta
Parramatta NSW 2150

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Your booking will only be accepted on completion of payment. Once we receive and process your booking, we will mail out an Enrolment Confirmation letter, which will confirm course details - date, times and location. All you have to do is travel to the nominated place where the course will be conducted, on the nominated date, arriving in good time and be present during the whole session. The only thing you may want to bring is a pen and some notepaper.

Cancellations and Transfers - initiated by the course provider

  1. The course provider reserves the right to cancel, postpone or re-schedule a course due to low enrolments, illness of presenter(s), or facilitator(s), or due to unforeseen circumstances.
  2. The course provider sets the timeframe within which they may cancel the course, due to less than minimum number of patricipants needed for the course to be viable.
  3. In the event of course cancellation, the course provider will make every effort to contact you. When enrolling, please accurately provide all of your contact details including home and work phone numbers, your mobile number, facsimile number and email address.

Cancellations and Transfers - initiated by the customer

Please choose your course carefully, we cannot be responsible for personal circumstances.

The term cancel is defined as cancellation of a place previously booked in a course, or the need to transfer, where the course provider is advised directly by you by a telephone call, a facsimile, an e-mail or a letter of your request and the circumstances.

  1. If you cancel your enrolment more than seven (7) days before the course commences, we will refund your course fee minus a $44.00 administration fee (non-refundable). This policy also applies to any booking cancelled on the day it was originally made.
  2. If you cancel your enrolment less than seven (7) days before the course commences, but not on the day of the course, we will refund your course fee minus a $50.00 cancellation fee.
  3. If you cancel your enrolment on the day of the course, we reserve the right not to refund your booking fee.
  4. If you transfer to another course date more than seven (7) days before the original course commences, no transfer fee will apply and you will be transferred provided that:
    • there are spaces available
    • your transfer does not disrupt the class into which you are transferring
    • selected course will run within the next three months
  5. If you transfer to another course date less than seven (7) days before the original course commences, you will have to pay $44.00 transfer fee, that will enable you to transfer to another course date provided that:
    • there are spaces available
    • your transfer does not disrupt the class into which you are transferring
    • selected course will run within the next three months
  6. Transfers to alternative course types like Basic OH&S for Builders or Effective Tendering Techniques, with notice of more than seven (7) days prior to the original course commencement date, can be arranged without penalty but payment costs for these courses vary. All payments will be adjusted accordingly.
  7. Transfers to alternative course types like Basic OH&S for Builders or Effective Tendering Techniques, with notice of less than seven (7) days prior to the original course commencement date, will entail a $44.00 transfer fee. All payments will be adjusted accordingly.
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