Question $2$

Under a contract for a hospital extension, the contractor is six weeks past the completion date $($with

no valid excuses$)$ when the architect issues an instruction requiring extra work which will take a week

to carry out.

Explain the contractor's rights $($if any$)$ to an extension of time or financial compensation for direct loss

and$/$or expense incurred, stating any assumptions you make about the precise wording of the

contract.

Would your answer be different if$,$ instead of the architect's instruction, the contractor had been

delayed for the extra week by exceptionally bad weather?

Total marks$]$

Question $3$

Discuss the contractor's rights to be paid for construction work, showing how the amount to be paid is

arrived at$,$ and remunerated to the contractor, and how it may be changed within the terms of a

standard$-$form construction contract with which you are familiar.

Total $[20$ marks$]$