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Performance specification: the legal implications

By: Language: English Series: International Construction Law Review ; 13(1) January 1996, 28-54(28)Publication details: 1996Subject(s): Summary: Examines the growth in the use of performance specifications, assesses the basic level of performance expected where performance requirements are not expressed, looks at the legal understanding of the concept of performance specifications including their effect on the distribution of design liability and at how courts handle specifications which contain mixed performance and prescriptive requirements.

Examines the growth in the use of performance specifications, assesses the basic level of performance expected where performance requirements are not expressed, looks at the legal understanding of the concept of performance specifications including their effect on the distribution of design liability and at how courts handle specifications which contain mixed performance and prescriptive requirements.