Includes index.

Revised edition of: The ICE conditions of contract, sixth edition: a user's guide / Brian Eggleston. 1993.

Print version record.

Preface; Notes on the text; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Publication; 1.2 Policy; 1.3 Changes from the Sixth edition; 1.4 Major areas of interest; 2 Definitions, interpretation and notices; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Identification definitions; 2.3 Contract documents; 2.4 Financial definitions; 2.5 Prime cost items and provisional sums; 2.6 Nominated subcontractors; 2.7 Works definitions; 2.8 Commencement and completion definitions; 2.9 Defects definitions; 2.10 Sections and parts of the works; 2.11 The site; 2.12 Contractor's equipment; 2.13 Interpretative rules; 2.14 Cost; 2.15 Communications

2.16 Notices3 The engineer and engineer's representative; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Duties and authority of the engineer; 3.3 Engineer to be named and chartered; 3.4 Engineer's representative; 3.5 Delegation by the engineer; 3.6 Assistants; 3.7 Instructions; 3.8 Impartiality; 4 Assignment and subcontracting; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Assignment and subcontracting generally; 4.3 Novation, assignment and subcontracting distinguished; 4.4 Collateral contracts and warranties; 4.5 Assignment in the Seventh edition; 4.6 Third party rights; 4.7 Subcontracting in the Seventh edition; 5 Contract documents

5.1 Introduction5.2 Construction of contracts; 5.3 Explanation and adjustment of documents; 5.4 Supply and copyright of documents; 5.5 Further drawings, specifications and instructions; 5.6 Delay in issue of further information; 5.7 Documents to be kept on site; 5.8 Permanent works designed by the contractor; 5.9 Responsibility for contractor designed works; 6 Contractor's obligations/responsibilities for design and construction; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Design obligations, responsibilities and liabilities; 6.3 Contractor's general obligations; 6.4 Design responsibility

6.5 Responsibility for site operations7 Form of agreement and performance security; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Form of Agreement; 7.3 Performance security; 7.4 ICE Form of Default Bond; 7.5 Cost of the bond/non-provision of bond; 7.6 Dispute resolution upon security; 8 Site conditions and sufficiency of tender; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Provision and interpretation of information; 8.3 Inspection of the site; 8.4 Basis and sufficiency of tender; 8.5 Adverse physical conditions and artificial obstructions; 9 Instructions and impossibility; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Instructions generally

9.3 Impossibility generally9.4 Work to be to the satisfaction of the engineer; 9.5 Mode and manner of construction; 9.6 Delay and extra cost; 10 Programmes and methods of construction; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Programmes and method statements generally; 10.3 Clause 14 programmes; 10.4 Clause 14 method statements; 11 Supervision, setting-out and safety; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Contractor's superintendence; 11.3 Removal of contractor's employees; 11.4 Setting-out; 11.5 Boreholes and exploratory excavations; 11.6 Safety and security; 12 Care of the works and insurances; 12.1 Introduction

The ICE Conditions continues to be the dominant form of contract for civil engineering, despite the growing importance of the New Engineering Contract. The Seventh Edition of the ICE Conditions, published in 1999, introduced a number of changes, including:? incorporating some of the concepts of the Latham Report? amending certain provisions of the Sixth Edition which had attracted criticism? rectifying conspicuous omissions from the text of earlier editions of the contract? correcting small errors and faults from the previous edition? modernising certain.

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