The SBCC Design and Build Contract is a specific contract form provided by the Scottish Building Contract Committee for design and build projects. It outlines the terms and conditions governing the relationship between the employer (client) and the contractor in a design and build construction project. The contract typically covers various aspects such as project specifications, responsibilities of the parties involved, payment terms, dispute resolution procedures, and other important details.
This is one of the standard forms of contract developed (and revised periodically) by the Scottish Building Contracts Committee, which represents the various commercial and professional groups that are interested in building contracts and ancillary contracts for matters such as architectural and engineering services and has the benefit of expert legal advice. The SBCC generally aims at striking a balance among the various parties involved in a building contract, although inevitably it does so at a general level having regard to normal or typical features of the type of contract in question rather than specific features of a particular project. Nevertheless, the balance that is struck in the standard forms of building contract includes not merely the affirmative duties and responsibilities but also a range of limitations and defences on liability. These features of the contract must in our opinion be considered as a totality.