Payment is where construction contracts get tense. The work is done, the invoice goes in — and then the waiting starts. In New Zealand, the rules of that game aren’t really set by your contract; they’re set by the Construction Contracts Act 2002 (the CCA). It governs how you claim payment, how the other side […]
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On almost every civil project, the job that gets built isn’t quite the job that was priced. Ground conditions surprise you, the design moves, the Principal wants something different once they see it taking shape. Under NZS 3910, the mechanism that keeps those changes fair — properly authorised, properly priced, and properly paid — is
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Most civil engineers in New Zealand have signed off on NZS 3910 paperwork at some point. Most have never read the standard cover-to-cover. That’s a reasonable trade-off — the document runs to a few hundred pages of cross-referenced clauses, and the parts you actually deal with on a contract are a small slice of the
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