1. Introduction
The provisions on the benefits of the builder include various conditions.
Some of the provisions deal with actual services such as materials supplied or determined by the builder, or design carried out by the developer, whether up to the conclusion of a contract with the general contractor and/ or in parallel with the execution of the main contractor.
In other cases, there is more talk of the builder's benefits in an indirect sense in that in reality there is more talk of having the risk of conditions neither the builder nor the contractor is aware of.
This is the situation when it comes to the physical work base that the builder makes available to the contractor, and where the builder has, by default, disclosed everything he knows about.
Similarly, it deals with unforeseen circumstances in the ground. Nor are there matters that it is really natural to characterize as builder performance in the literal sense, but rather about risk placement for the unknown.
2. Overview of the rules
As for all other topics, we start from NS 8407 because it is this contract standard that is used most often today.
Below we have included a matrix in which we show the individual provisions as stated in the three standard contracts.
We have (for now) written two articles on this topic, namely about 1)the risk of conditions at the ground and the physical base of work; and ! 2)the builder's engineering and agreed risk transition.
Our impression is that the other provisions do not create major challenges in practice, but aim to complement as we develop the content even more.
