Market guide
Payment on UK construction contracts runs on the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, as amended. Every contract carries a payment due date, a payment or default notice, a final date for payment and a pay less notice deadline, with the right to adjudicate at any time. Where the contract is silent, the Scheme for Construction Contracts fills the gap.
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Guides on how construction payment actually runs in this market, at length and without a sales pitch at the end.
QScope counts the days from due date to final date for payment under section 116, excluding the statutory non-days, so notices and any adjudication rest on enforceable dates.
Read nowQScope records practical completion as the milestone that releases retention, starts the rectification period and begins the run to the final account.
Read nowQScope holds the notice, relevant event and programme impact together, so an extension of time claim rests on contemporaneous records under JCT and NEC4.
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Value the work, hold the retention, count the dates and keep the record. QScope runs the same way wherever the job is, thirty days free and without a card.
30 days free, no card.
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