ACE Agreements: Altogether Now

This summer the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) published some revised agreements and some new ones. Separate Scottish versions of all of these were launched at the Scottish parliament on 19 November. Previously, optional provisions in the agreements enabled the parties to decide that Scottish rather than English law would apply. Electronic versions of both English and Scottish agreements should be available by the end of the year.

A major change in the English and Scottish agreements has been to provide just one design agreement in place of the historic division into two: one for lead consultants and one for non-lead consultants, which were further subdivided for those consultants providing civil or structural services and those providing M&E services.