On which side of the fence? Contractual practices in the farm buildings industry

Astley-Cooper, P.

On which side of the fence? Contractual practices in the farm buildings industry - 1987 - Farm Buildings and Engineering 4(1) Spring-Summer 1987, 22-23(2) .

The agricultural construction industry and its clientele think and work very differently to the industrial and commercial sector. Only when a surveyor, architect or consultant is controlling a building scheme are comprehensive terms of sale arranged. About 80% of building schemes, however, are direct purchases by farmers from companies supplying buildings and ancillary works. There is a need to create a model set of contract conditions suitable to the rather special nature of agricultural buildings which would be acceptable to supplier and purchaser.