Published on: 10 March 2025
Published by a LexisNexis Construction expert
The latest instalments in the JCT 2024 suite were published on 5 March 2025. They include the 2024 editions of the JCT Construction Management Contract and the Management Building Contract families, together with their guides, alongside 2024 editions of the Framework Agreement and Framework Agreement Guide, Dispute Adjudication Board Documentation, the Adjudication Agreement, and Project Bank Account Documentation.
This article sets out the principal changes to the Management Building Contract 2024 (MC 2024) family, compared with its 2016 predecessors and with other forms in the JCT 2024 suite. We focus specifically on the Management Building Contract 2024, and the Management Works Contract Agreement and Conditions 2024.
Reference copies of all documents issued by the JCT on 5 March 2025 are available on Lexis+® Construction: see the ‘Forms’ tab under our sub-topic ‘JCT contracts 2024’ (within the main topic, ‘Standard form construction contracts’), and Practice Note: JCT contracts 2024—reference copies. For details of the other contracts released as part of the JCT 2024 suite, consult Practice Note: JCT contracts 2024—what's changed? For commentary on the impact that the JCT 2024 suite might have on the construction sector, see News Analysis: Talking Point—the JCT 2024 Contracts...
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