Giving notice under building contracts - 10 point checklist

Whether you're the building owner, the builder, or the subcontractor, it is likely that the construction contract you signed will require you to give a written notice in certain circumstances.

If you are required by the contract to give a notice, and you don't give one (or you give one, but its invalid) you could well find yourself in breach of contract.

When the time comes to give a contractual notice, drafting and properly serving a compliant notice to the other party isn't as straight forward as one might think. Whilst the individual steps to creating a valid notice aren't difficult – remembering and managing them all in a pressure cooker environment isn't a skill that most people are born with.