Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Penalties for cancelling before preliminary works assess 4Apr 29, 2020 9:15 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Penalties for cancelling before preliminary works assess 7Jun 21, 2020 1:25 am Hi James, we are in the very similar situation with you. We are building in SA too. We just came across your post when we were googling info about footing report. Would you mind dm me your contact so we can discuss together? Thank you in advance Re: Penalties for cancelling before preliminary works assess 8Jun 21, 2020 1:46 am My experience is that the PPA is not the same as the HIA contract and you can walk away but you will lose your deposit. In terms of being charged further for other works, its best if you emailed them something like you can’t proceed any further due to unforeseen circumstances and then just ignore their emails/phone calls I believe that liquidated damaged should be amount of actual loss to the owner from the delays. The issue in all of this is building industry lobbying and contributing to… 5 3445 In NSW the maximum deposit for building work is 5% until the builder provides HBCF insurance 1 4826 MBA and HIA both have sub contract agreements, check them out 2 7315 |