3rd February 2006, 01:41 PM
Why? It all sounds perfectly reasonable to me. There are one or two misunderstandings about who can do what and when in a construction contract but what the heck. If an archaeological consultant wanted a drain run changed he would have to ring the architect to get it changed and an Instruction issued. He cannot instruct a building contractor. There will be financial effects and of course the consultant is not qualified to adjust drainage designs. Similarly the standard contract has provisions for Antiquities, but again only the architect/contract administrator could instruct the (building) contractor to stop work: a phone call would be required.
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.