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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
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Background of the Problems
Dispute in construction industry always occur and can be attested by many court cases reported in court proceedings, various law journals and law reports. For example The Building Law Reports which start in 1976, now running to 57 volumes and Construction Law Reports began in 1985 has now 27 volumes containing thousands of cases.
Construction issues and disputes grow from variety of causes as reported in the cases. A survey of more than 300 relatively recent major disputes leads to the conclusion that the causes of dispute are attributed to five sources (Hohns H.Murray, 1979).
They are, errors, defects, or omission which exist in the contract document, the failure of someone to accurately estimate the costs of the undertaking in its beginning, the changed condition of the site or location, the consumer and the people involved.
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The main objective of project management and contract management is to ensure that the project in successful, completed on time, within cost at the described quality given the fragmented and complex nature of the construction. It is most appropriate to adopt anticipate approach of management. For example to anticipate problems before it actually occur and to handle necessary measure actions where one of the main function of Project Manager or Contract manager is to act as arbitrator or dispute handler.
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Problem Statement
A study of the causes has been carried out such as errors, defects, or omission in the contract document, the failure of someone to accurately estimate the costs, the changed condition of the site or location, the consumer and the people involved.
But these are the general findings and some others elements have to be determined. This because construction is a complex process involving of many activities, myriads of individual, different company or firms, different size, part of country with different skills and...