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Lucinda Baker

HCR Law
Lucinda Baker is an experienced construction and engineering lawyer, with specialist expertise in the Education, Healthcare and Banking sectors. Formerly an associate with DLA Piper, she has been with Harrison Clark Rickerbys for 8 years. She has a number of reported Court of Appeal cases to her name from her contentious caseload but also has significant experience of non-contentious development and project support acting for all parties across the field; from funders to sub-contractors and of course education clients.

Practice Areas

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 1994

Membership

  • Society of Construction Law

Education

  • University of Manchester

2 Contributions by Lucinda Baker

Education-sector construction: procurement, funding, JCT design and build, collateral warranties, risk allocation, safeguarding, CDM and public procurement issues
PRACTICE NOTES
Education-sector construction: procurement, funding, JCT design and build, collateral warranties, risk allocation, safeguarding, CDM and public procurement issues
This Practice Note reviews the principal issues and risks that routinely arise on major construction for education providers, spanning higher education, further education, academies and independent schools. See also Practice Note: Building Schools for the Future/Priority School Building Programme [Archived]. Typical procurement routes While any conventional procurement route can be used on an education project, three factors usually drive the route selected by education clients for their construction programmes: Nature of client Education clients seldom commission large capital schemes. It is not their core activity and, except for sizeable university estates teams, they rarely possess the in-house expertise to procure major works successfully. They are regarded as inexperienced construction clients. Funding Funding is often capped and time limited. As a result, works are commonly let on a fixed-price contract, typically at a higher cost, to secure the level of certainty and control sought by funders (public or private investment) and governors. See Funding below. Risk management Site risks on education schemes are generally greater than for typical development. Construction is frequently carried out within a live school...
Construction
England: Building Schools for the Future and Priority School Building Programme—PFI/PF2 procurement, EFA frameworks, and construction contract negotiation (Archived)
PRACTICE NOTES
England: Building Schools for the Future and Priority School Building Programme—PFI/PF2 procurement, EFA frameworks, and construction contract negotiation (Archived)
ARCHIVED: This Practice Note is archived and is not maintained. It reviews the Building Schools for the Future government initiative together with the current Priority School Building Programme, and examines the construction contracts adopted as well as the negotiation issues commonly encountered in practice... Building Schools for the Future Building Schools for the Future (BSF) was a Labour-led programme announced in 2003 by the Department for Education and Skills (which later became the Department for Education, or DFE), and it launched in 2004. Its purpose included, among other objectives, delivering a step change in children’s education by upgrading facilities, property and learning environments across local secondary schools. BSF was intended to be financed by a £55bn investment to improve schools over a 15–20-year period. Delivery was co‑ordinated nationally by Partnerships for Schools, set up by the DFE as both a company and a non‑departmental public body (ie a government‑sponsored organisation operating at arm’s length) for this purpose. The programme was funded jointly by the DFE and Partnerships UK, a public/private body created to promote PFI schemes, which was dissolved in 2011...
Construction
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