Did you know? Appointing a professional consultant

PLC Construction publishes a series of resources to help appoint professional consultants on a construction or engineering project. They include standard documents and standard clauses (which users may download in Word format) and practice notes (which explain the legal principles behind common practical issues that crop up on projects). You can find all of our materials on professional consultants, including legal updates and checklists, in the Professional appointments and liabilities topic: just one click away from our homepage.

For example, we publish two forms of professional appointment, Standard documents:

If the professional consultant is to grant rights in favour of third parties, we publish both Standard document, Collateral warranty to be provided by a professional consultant and Standard document, Schedule of third party rights to be provided by a professional consultant.

Our suite of practice notes on appointing a professional consultant is extensive, considering matters from additional services to warranties and indemnities. To get a fuller picture, you might start with Practice note, Professional appointments: the consultant's role and appointment, noting the "Related content" on the right-hand side of your screen.

We also provide an overview of many of the standard forms of professional appointment published by industry bodies, such as the ACE (see Practice note, ACE: the ACE Agreements) and RIBA (see Practice note, RIBA Agreements 2010).