Construction firms have been urged to quit their litigious ways and to collaborate more, after a new survey shared exclusively with Building revealed disputes were still rife in the industry. The survey compiled by the National Building Specification (NBS) found the two most common causes of dispute in the industry were disagreements over extension of time and the value of final accounts, cited by 50% and 44% of respondents respectively. The lion's share of disputes is between clients and main contractors, according to 76% of respondents, while 29% said they had been involved in a dispute between a main contractor and a subcontractor. The survey was taken by 981 respondents across the construction industry, including consultants and advisers (60%), contractors (25%) and clients (15%).
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