For the important role of (Contract Conditions for Civil Engineering Works) as a principal contractual document, that regulates rights, duties, and delegations of the Client, the Contractor, the Engineer, and their representatives in the construction project. This analytical criticizing study has been carried out, covering the Contract Conditions, issued by the Ministry of Planning and Developing Cooperation in August 2007. The study aims at amendments, seeking for justice in consequence to preliminary bond, natural conditions, equipment, time effect on cost, supporting excesses, stopping works, and inception date. Then to be consistent with Iraqi laws concerning invalidation, definitions, contradiction rules, calculation mechanism of liquidated damages, limiting variations domain, and renovating obsolete rules. In addition, it seeks for better organizing by classifying the rules, providing enough spaces to write down related information, specifying time schedule and construction method, supporting national products, insurance, tests, and extending period. It also seeks for proper Arabic by using suitable expressions and titles, omitting not mentioned refers, correcting words and typing mistakes. It is recommended that the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation may take with these recommendations. |