January 2018

17 Jan

Architect’s professional negligence – must you keep to a client’s budget?

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Looking at the case of Riva Properties and others v Foster + Partners If a firm of architects is engaged by a client to design a building to a certain budget, will the architects be negligent if their design is significantly in excess of that budget and no amount of “value-engineering” can bring the likely cost of the design down to within budget? In a nutshell, these...