Check whether the work is construction work for a progress payment
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the scope of work, list which of the section's categories the work appears to fall in, and any drilling, extraction or other excluded work. Do not decide that the Act applies.
- What the lawyer must review
- The lawyer decides whether the work is construction work, including any work prescribed in or excluded by regulations that were not opened.
- Written for / version
- US
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Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the scope of work, list which of the section's categories the work appears to fall in, and any drilling, extraction or other excluded work. Do not decide that the Act applies. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Construction work includes the construction, alteration, repair, restoration, maintenance, extension, demolition or dismantling of buildings or structures forming, or to form, part of land, whether permanent or not, and the same activities for works forming, or to form, part of land. The section's list of works includes walls, roadworks, power-lines, telecommunication apparatus, aircraft runways, docks and harbours, railways, inland waterways, pipelines, reservoirs, water mains, wells, sewers, industrial plant and installations for land drainage or coast protection.
- It includes installation in any building, structure or works of fittings forming, or to form, part of land, including heating, lighting, air-conditioning, ventilation, power supply, drainage, sanitation, water supply, fire protection, security and communications systems. It includes external or internal cleaning so far as carried out in the course of construction, alteration, repair, restoration, maintenance or extension, and painting or decorating of the internal or external surfaces.
- It includes an operation which forms an integral part of, or is preparatory to, or is for rendering complete, work of the building, works or fittings kind. The section's list includes site clearance, earth-moving, excavation, tunnelling and boring, laying foundations, erection, maintenance or dismantling of scaffolding, prefabrication of components on-site or off-site, and site restoration, landscaping and roadways and other access works.
- It does not include drilling for, or extraction of, oil or natural gas, or the extraction of minerals, including tunnelling or boring or constructing underground works for that purpose. Other work prescribed by the regulations is included or excluded as the relevant subsection says. Those regulations were not opened. The lawyer decides.
Sources
These are suggested working checks. Confirm the required checking with the responsible lawyer before work starts; the checking approach does not establish permission to use AI.